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Speaker 1: can counting from tonight exactly, the Arizona Cardinals will be
Speaker 1: on the clock looking for a game breaker, a playmaker,
Speaker 1: a difference maker. Will it be in the form of
Speaker 1: a receiver, an edge rusher, maybe a corner, an old lineman,
Speaker 1: a d lineman, even a running back. According to one
Speaker 1: recent mock draft well, the Arizona Cardinals trade up? Might
Speaker 1: they trade down? The good news is Ron Wolfie, if
Speaker 1: you've been scoring at home for the last couple of months,
Speaker 1: there's a mock draft that will match whatever direction or
Speaker 1: narrative you want to see develop. If you can think
Speaker 1: of it, it is out there in a form of
Speaker 1: a mock draft somewhere. Yeah, you know what, Paula, I
Speaker 1: love that. I'm glad you brought that up right there.
Speaker 1: Because of the efficacy and the accuracy of a mock draft.
Speaker 1: Of course we all know. Well, I mean, if you
Speaker 1: get seriously ball, if you get five, if you get
Speaker 1: five in the first round, right, you are really good
Speaker 1: terms of being a great mocker. So why don't we
Speaker 1: do four rounds? Or even better, why don't we do
Speaker 1: the whole draft. That's great. I'm sure it's fun, but
Speaker 1: for me, it's an exercise and futility. Yeah, we saw
Speaker 1: a seven round this week. We saw four round mocks
Speaker 1: with trades. I mean, you know you see it back.
Speaker 1: I said it on the podcast Round willfully, and I'll
Speaker 1: say it again on The Big Red Rage. Brought to
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Speaker 1: and By the way, speaking of the draft, Drew Grigson
Speaker 1: is our guest tonight, putting them big in a big
Speaker 1: red range with those guns. Are you kidding me, Director
Speaker 1: of playoff Personnel? Are they still twenty inches? That's what
Speaker 1: I wanted to Does he have the twenty inch canids?
Speaker 1: I was, I was harassing you earlier this week telling
Speaker 1: you that I was winning the offseason until I saw
Speaker 1: Drew Grigson and his offseason regimen. Yeah, I'm definitely Paully
Speaker 1: Pencilnaca during interview. You know what's incredible about that, Paully,
Speaker 1: His tricept is bigger than your head. That is what
Speaker 1: is so amazing. Yeah. So anyway, like I said on
Speaker 1: the podcast, um, this year for Lent, I gave up
Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookies and scones. Next year for Lent, I'm
Speaker 1: giving up mock drafts. Okay, So there's the latest on that.
Speaker 1: We do have news of the week, We do have
Speaker 1: news of the day. In fact, you want to start
Speaker 1: with a receiver, you want to start with a quarterback.
Speaker 1: We start with a quarterback and then we'll move on
Speaker 1: from there. As I'm sure you saw some of the
Speaker 1: headlines earlier today. In fact, a lot of what was
Speaker 1: reported today was reported by Albert Brewer of Sports Illustrated
Speaker 1: last month that Kyler Murray and Team Kyler wants a
Speaker 1: new deal. They want it before the draft, and you
Speaker 1: know they view that as a deadline for a new contract. Now,
Speaker 1: whether he is expected to play unless he gets a
Speaker 1: new deal, that's a question out there. And then, of
Speaker 1: course you know that Team Kyler and the agent Eric
Speaker 1: Burkhart pulled the opening proposal off the table. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if there's a deal done by the draft, and
Speaker 1: then we'll see exactly what may or may not develop
Speaker 1: after that. Yeah, Polly, you know what's interesting you bring
Speaker 1: that up because here it is April fourteenth? Is it
Speaker 1: not the fourteenth? Paulli? It is? It is how many
Speaker 1: days before the draft the actual start of the show.
Speaker 1: By saying two weeks exactly? Okay, all right? Do you
Speaker 1: get where I'm getting that is a pressure point, There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Speaking of pressure points, I just
Speaker 1: get this feeling that maybe Kyler Murray's agent may have
Speaker 1: picked up the phone and just called Tom Pellacero and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, honestly, right now, if you want me
Speaker 1: to leak you inside information on this. This is pure
Speaker 1: speculation on my part, PAULI, I have no idea, but
Speaker 1: it seems like it's the same story, just freshened a
Speaker 1: little bit, if you know what I mean, just a
Speaker 1: different insider. He just he makes the rounds, yes, based
Speaker 1: on every couple of weeks or you know, once a
Speaker 1: month at the very least. So okay, there you go,
Speaker 1: and you know what, Look, there are now eight quarterbacks
Speaker 1: making forty million or more in average annual value. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we've seen the recent signings, you know, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and Deshaun Watson and Matthew Stafford and now Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: So okay, they're going to see what they can get
Speaker 1: in the marketplace. We get it. AJ Green is back
Speaker 1: in the fold for Kyler Murray. What do you make
Speaker 1: of that? And specifically we'll get into the football and
Speaker 1: the xes and o's and the Cardinals offense a little later. Well,
Speaker 1: what do you think that means for the Cardinals draft?
Speaker 1: Doesn't make a sort of Yeah, doesn't make a difference
Speaker 1: that they have AJ Green and X receiver on the
Speaker 1: outside back. I honestly, Polly, I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: don't think that is a listen, do you love to
Speaker 1: have Aj Green? Do you love to have AJ Green
Speaker 1: in the veteran that he is and all of that experience,
Speaker 1: just in case maybe you don't actually have Rondel more improving,
Speaker 1: Just in case, maybe you do draft somebody high in
Speaker 1: the first round, maybe even the second round at fifty five,
Speaker 1: you know, and suddenly they're they're a little slow in
Speaker 1: terms of developing. Do you want a bit of a
Speaker 1: safety net at wide receiver? Man? I think that is
Speaker 1: what this signing is all about with AJ Green for
Speaker 1: the most part, Pauli. So you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: it prohibits here Arizona Cardinals from going forward and drafting
Speaker 1: the best player of ollable at number twenty three, whether
Speaker 1: whether Pauli that is a wide receiver, whether that's an edge,
Speaker 1: whether that's a defensive tackle. Man, there's there's a guy
Speaker 1: that I absolutely love, DeVante Wyatt, the defensive tackle out
Speaker 1: of Georgia. The more and more I watch this guy,
Speaker 1: the more and more I read about this guy, the
Speaker 1: more and more I like. Because you've got two first
Speaker 1: round picks inside playing inside linebacker that are still very
Speaker 1: very young. Would it be great to actually keep the
Speaker 1: butt guts, off of that second level, off of Zaban Collins,
Speaker 1: off of Isaiah Simmons. Well, the best way to do
Speaker 1: that is to get a butt in the gap, and
Speaker 1: DeVante Wyatt would be a butt in the gap, and
Speaker 1: you know what, we're going to get into him momentarily,
Speaker 1: but as a setup. Daniel Jeremiah, he was on the
Speaker 1: passpod right, Dave Pass reeling in a big, big guest
Speaker 1: this time of year, and the NFL Network draft expert
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah on the question where does he see the
Speaker 1: Cardinals going with their top pick. Well, I think there's
Speaker 1: so many different ways you can go and where you're picking.
Speaker 1: You're kind of at the mercy of what falls you
Speaker 1: because the drafting go in so many different directions. But
Speaker 1: I still think, you know, firepower on offense. I think
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, you know, just
Speaker 1: getting younger and more dynamic upfront. Okay, so there you go,
Speaker 1: and look, I think it's a good sign right now
Speaker 1: that even the experts they say, man, the Cardinals could
Speaker 1: go any number of directions. But to your point, could
Speaker 1: they go defense for the third straight year, and could
Speaker 1: they invest a pick in someone that, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: would be a double ding in terms of Isaiah Simmons
Speaker 1: and Zaven Collins and the fact the Arizona Cardinals is
Speaker 1: a defense gave up one hundred and fifty or more
Speaker 1: yards rushing times last year. They're very inconsistent in terms
Speaker 1: of rush defense. So with that in mind, Daniel Jeremiah
Speaker 1: said this, I look at a guy I just kind
Speaker 1: of knowing Steve over the years. There are certain players
Speaker 1: you could see kind of tickling his fancy, And for
Speaker 1: some reason, I think of a guy like Davante Wyatt,
Speaker 1: who's just ultra ultra explosive a defensive tackle from Georgia.
Speaker 1: If somehow he were to be in that mix there,
Speaker 1: I could see that that being somebody he'd really like.
Speaker 1: Paul has had no Seriously, I had no idea that
Speaker 1: he was going to say that. I've been talking about
Speaker 1: Davontay Wyatt for over a week now. I've been talking
Speaker 1: about DeVonta Wyatt, and I've come around from Jordan Davis. Listen,
Speaker 1: I love Jordan Davis. Oh my goodness, are you big
Speaker 1: man running? Paul? I mean, honestly, six six three hunty
Speaker 1: one pounds running a four to seven eight That is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: But you know, I the more and more I read,
Speaker 1: and the more and more I look at some of
Speaker 1: the tape on Devontay Wyatt, man, this is this is
Speaker 1: a guy that it's going to be hard taking him
Speaker 1: off the field. I think Jordan Davis for the most
Speaker 1: part right now is specialty is he's just so big
Speaker 1: and so tough. He's so good against the run. But
Speaker 1: I think Devantay Wyatt is not only good against the run,
Speaker 1: he's also good against the pass. And I think anytime
Speaker 1: you can do that and get a guy that is
Speaker 1: that interior present and to get him to actually bring
Speaker 1: a little force inside, now your edge gets a lot better.
Speaker 1: Whomever that may be. Yeah, and Wolf two things, you know,
Speaker 1: everything you said about him is true from what I've read,
Speaker 1: and then I've also read he has the quickest, most
Speaker 1: explosive first step of any dag lineman in this draft.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's more than one way to generate pressure,
Speaker 1: as if you explained more than once, and if you
Speaker 1: can get some of that interior pressure, I mean, as
Speaker 1: Kyle Vannabosh said this week on the Red Sea Report,
Speaker 1: quarterbacks absolutely to test the pressure up through the A
Speaker 1: and B gaps. Allah Aaron Donald. Right, So if you
Speaker 1: can get that sort of guy who's disrupted from the
Speaker 1: interior d line, that would obviously be a huge asset
Speaker 1: for that Cardinals front seven. By the way, it's the
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Speaker 1: Country Concert. Big Red Rage continues with Drew Grigson. Next.
Speaker 1: Where are you guys right now in the draft process?
Speaker 1: Have you already stood on the table, Drew? Have you
Speaker 1: stood on the table and had it out? Have you
Speaker 1: had those meetings yet? The shoeprints are on the table, Wolf,
Speaker 1: they're there. Yeah, You're not on the clock until the
Speaker 1: shoeprints are on the table. Right until there's treadmarks in
Speaker 1: the war room. That was exactly one year ago today
Speaker 1: here on the Big Red Rage, And you know what
Speaker 1: are there treadmarks on the table this year? I honestly
Speaker 1: don't know, because there's one place I cannot go at
Speaker 1: Cardinal's headquarters. And that is the war room, and that
Speaker 1: is why we bring the war room to us every year.
Speaker 1: About this time, that's right, it is time for Drew
Speaker 1: Grigson and his return here on the Big Red Rage,
Speaker 1: the director of Player Personnel. And Drew, you don't look
Speaker 1: too sleep deprived. So going wall so far excellent, so far, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and you're winning the off season. You know, as Wolf said,
Speaker 1: you know, boom, you're you're staying in the weight room.
Speaker 1: You got the workout clause in your in your contracts.
Speaker 1: So things are going well. Early morning, wake up, get that.
Speaker 1: We'll get it in and then get to work. Good.
Speaker 1: That's how we do it. All right, let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Then let's talk about this draft. As always, there's an
Speaker 1: insatiable appetite about the draft. Fans love to talk about it.
Speaker 1: What stands out to you about the twenty twenty two draft,
Speaker 1: or there are particular areas this year that you think
Speaker 1: it will be known for in years to come. It's
Speaker 1: every year changes obviously in terms of depth of position,
Speaker 1: and this year it's deeper at certain spots than it
Speaker 1: was last year. It's a little deeper too, just in
Speaker 1: terms of overall players because of the guys that came
Speaker 1: back from the COVID year. So you know last year,
Speaker 1: the top players, they're going to come out regardless, But
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys that would have been maybe
Speaker 1: late round picks free agents, they stayed in and they
Speaker 1: worked themselves up a handful of rounds. They worked themselves
Speaker 1: in from undrafted free agency into the six and seventh rounds.
Speaker 1: So I think you're going to see more, you know,
Speaker 1: players that that ended up coming back. There'sould be a
Speaker 1: little bit more depth. I think is actually late and
Speaker 1: definitely in free agency. You know, we've heard Daniel Jeremiah
Speaker 1: say repeatedly and most recently on the Pashpod, that there
Speaker 1: are twenty pass rushers in this draft. Now that that
Speaker 1: would be unheard of, wouldn't it be that that it
Speaker 1: would be that deep in edge rushers. It's twenty might
Speaker 1: be a little strong, but there is. You know, actually,
Speaker 1: when I saw that same thing and I went up,
Speaker 1: I looked at our board at one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: and let's see if he's right. Um, it is strong.
Speaker 1: It is good there, um, And there's there's plenty of
Speaker 1: of diverse body types and skill sets in the group
Speaker 1: from length to you know, guys with power, guys with
Speaker 1: a ton of production, guys with average production but have
Speaker 1: the traits. So it is an interesting group, no doubt.
Speaker 1: So the board is up, board is up, the horizontal
Speaker 1: board is up. So we had all those discussions. Um,
Speaker 1: so it is, it is set, um and then we'll
Speaker 1: sit and uh do the one twenty next week. It's
Speaker 1: going to be over three days. Used to be we
Speaker 1: used to jam it in a one day and then
Speaker 1: we said that's just too much. We we you know it,
Speaker 1: I think it's too much for one day to have
Speaker 1: that kind of information spread over to two days. And
Speaker 1: then always said, let's let's make sure we feel good
Speaker 1: about it and get it. Let's use the time that
Speaker 1: we have here. We have all month pretty much, and
Speaker 1: let's use it over three So we spread it out
Speaker 1: over three days now because a lot of those names
Speaker 1: encapsulate three years of work per player in a lot
Speaker 1: of cases, right, and no question, absolutely, you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that that you know, with
Speaker 1: the COVID year, maybe guys were injured. Um, I mean
Speaker 1: they should be doctors by now. With there's there's guys
Speaker 1: that they have been seven years and you know, they
Speaker 1: have a lot of experience and uh, which again that
Speaker 1: helps us for the most part, especially if they're coming
Speaker 1: in and we expect them to you know, maybe play
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier. You know. Now the guys that
Speaker 1: are developmental that are seven years in, you have to
Speaker 1: look sit back and say, well, if they're this at
Speaker 1: this point and it's seven years in, how much better
Speaker 1: can they get a little bit more risk there? But um,
Speaker 1: you know the extra year is like I said, no
Speaker 1: question going to help some of those guys. Later, Drew Griggson,
Speaker 1: director of a player of personnel our guests in the
Speaker 1: Big Red Rage. Did you get back to normalcy in
Speaker 1: terms of gathering info this year? I know a year
Speaker 1: ago at this time a lot of it was mainly
Speaker 1: zoom correct one hundred percent zoom. Yeah, nothing, there was,
Speaker 1: there was nothing we can do. At least last year
Speaker 1: we got back to Pro Days. But even Pro Days
Speaker 1: were strange because they only let so many people in
Speaker 1: from your organization, so numbers at pro Days were low,
Speaker 1: and this year it felt like old times. I mean,
Speaker 1: we had you know, as many people as we needed
Speaker 1: at the Pro Days. We were allowed to make school
Speaker 1: visits again, you know, sitting in the rooms with coaches
Speaker 1: and with the liaison, the trainers, so all that information.
Speaker 1: We were able to get that information. Now, last year,
Speaker 1: last couple, it was it was tough, but we have
Speaker 1: a great staff. We have a staff that's incredibly dialed.
Speaker 1: Then we have great relationships across the country and we
Speaker 1: needed those relationships to help us make the right decisions
Speaker 1: on the players that we took last year. This year
Speaker 1: it's again with it being more open. We were able
Speaker 1: to have thirty visits again, which we haven't done in
Speaker 1: you know, we haven't done. We had one thirty visit
Speaker 1: the year that COVID hit and that was it and
Speaker 1: he was out and we didn't That was the last
Speaker 1: thirty visit we had in twenty twenty. And just the
Speaker 1: ability for us to bring these guys back in the building,
Speaker 1: get to know him, shake their hand, take him out
Speaker 1: to dinner, and just get a feel of do we
Speaker 1: want this guy in our building? Do I want to
Speaker 1: hand this guy off to Vance Joseph? Do I feel
Speaker 1: comfortable with that? And then have Vans sit down with
Speaker 1: him and eat dinner with them, and then Cliff and
Speaker 1: and just be able to sit there and drafting and
Speaker 1: say yes, this is a guy, because that's why you're
Speaker 1: doing all that homework, right, You're trying to ascertain you
Speaker 1: can see the player on film, You're trying to ascertain
Speaker 1: what sort of person he is that you're investing end cars.
Speaker 1: So that's a long study and you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: sometimes three years and you're looking at the tape, you're
Speaker 1: looking at the personality, You're looking at the ability to learn.
Speaker 1: Does the guy love the game? Does he what do
Speaker 1: his work habits? Like? What is his worth? Like all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Every player is going to have some risk
Speaker 1: no matter what. And if that risk comes in injuries
Speaker 1: again and again, his ability to our inability to learn,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's his production. All of them have risk.
Speaker 1: What you try to do with all this information, get
Speaker 1: as much of it as possible and eliminate as much
Speaker 1: of the risk as he possibly can, you know, because
Speaker 1: it's I always tell the guys, like shooting craps, there's
Speaker 1: some bets that are really really good or or more conservative.
Speaker 1: Some bets are you know, they're high risk, but they
Speaker 1: pay off a lot. So what can we do with
Speaker 1: all the information we have to eliminate as much of
Speaker 1: the risk as possible before we take that player. Drew Griggson,
Speaker 1: director a player personnel here on the Big Red Rage.
Speaker 1: All right, so you look at all these mock drafts
Speaker 1: and you do I don't know, okay, all right at
Speaker 1: this point at this point, and you're right, I do, yeah,
Speaker 1: And we like to have fun with it. But there
Speaker 1: is one thing I'm trying to glean from these, and
Speaker 1: it's the following. And tell me if there's any any
Speaker 1: merit to this. Sure, how many quarterbacks are going before
Speaker 1: the Cardinals pick at number twenty three? I hope eight,
Speaker 1: let's help twenty two exactly. That's because to me, that
Speaker 1: QB question is a big question as it pertains to
Speaker 1: the Cardinals at twenty three, because it dictates how many
Speaker 1: position players will be pushed down. Absolutely. Yes, So what's
Speaker 1: your gut feel? Do you have one? I have a
Speaker 1: gut feel. My gut feel is that there that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a few taken before a pick because of
Speaker 1: the supply and demand, because of the need. Because if
Speaker 1: you don't have one, you don't have anything. And regardless
Speaker 1: of how wrong in the classes they're they're gonna go.
Speaker 1: You know that. So is it as strong of a
Speaker 1: classes i've seen the past. No, it's not. But that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you know that there aren't gonna be
Speaker 1: guys that are gonna come in, get drafted, be giving
Speaker 1: the keys to the organization and given their shot. You know.
Speaker 1: So I've seen some reputable guys say zero. I've seen
Speaker 1: some say five quarterbacks for the Cardinals. So you know,
Speaker 1: to me, that's been a big determining factor as to
Speaker 1: who's on the board. And as for number twenty three itself,
Speaker 1: what's your confidence level there's going to be an elite
Speaker 1: talent available by the time the Cardinals pick. It's a
Speaker 1: good spot to pick. And I'll tell you why, because
Speaker 1: it's almost like I always talk about the second round,
Speaker 1: because when all of the sexy picks go, when all
Speaker 1: the heightweight, speed, and all the flash goes, and all
Speaker 1: the risky guys go, sometimes there's just that guy that's
Speaker 1: sitting there that is just a good football player that
Speaker 1: loves the game. Maybe his arms are a little short,
Speaker 1: maybe he didn't run as fast, but he's got ten
Speaker 1: sacks and twenty tackle for loss, and he again loves
Speaker 1: the game and he's just a good football And you're
Speaker 1: getting a good starter that's gonna play for he's gonna
Speaker 1: get a second contract. So there's I think where we're picking.
Speaker 1: Here's actually a little less risk because all that stuff
Speaker 1: starts to sort itself out. You know, again, all the
Speaker 1: combine guys, all the guys you have questions about, and
Speaker 1: then you just sitting there and just go boom, that's
Speaker 1: the guy right there. And again that's what the one
Speaker 1: twenty conversation is all about. And a lot of those
Speaker 1: mock drafts have either receiver or edge rusher most typically
Speaker 1: associated with the Cardinals speaking a receiver as a director
Speaker 1: of player personnel, give us a word in Aj Green
Speaker 1: back on board with a one year deal. I think
Speaker 1: the way that we've put the team back together, I like,
Speaker 1: we have an eleven win team, and we keep resigning
Speaker 1: the guys that helped us get eleven wins and the
Speaker 1: guys that are part of the culture that helped change
Speaker 1: the culture from when we were a three win team
Speaker 1: and had the first pick in the draft, and keep
Speaker 1: those guys around. You know, AJ has been around the block.
Speaker 1: He is a consummate pro. He's a position of need,
Speaker 1: you know, especially being an outside guy, being an X
Speaker 1: a guy that we wanted to bring back because of that,
Speaker 1: and he knows what we're all about. He knows what
Speaker 1: it's like working with Sean Jefferson now so excited to
Speaker 1: have him back and again a great pro and we
Speaker 1: know exactly what we're getting with AJ. So, as general
Speaker 1: manager Steve Kim has never drafted a receiver in Round one?
Speaker 1: Is that by the sign? Has that been just because
Speaker 1: of the board. Is there any reason that pattern may
Speaker 1: or may not continue this year? I think it's just
Speaker 1: it's the way that it falls. And again, you know
Speaker 1: our philosophy, and we're gonna stick to our philosophy, and
Speaker 1: that has take the best player available, regardless of what
Speaker 1: the position is. So we're gonna let it fall. We're
Speaker 1: gonna pluck the players off the one twenty as they're
Speaker 1: drafted around the league, and then when that players left,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take him. If it's a receiver, it's a receiver.
Speaker 1: If it's alignment, it's alignment. We're gonna take what's best
Speaker 1: that makes us a better team to help us go
Speaker 1: from eleven wins in the first round of the playoffs
Speaker 1: deeper into the playoffs to a Super Bowl to a win.
Speaker 1: There are two receivers in an associate with the Cardinals
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Jamison Williams out of Alabama, but because
Speaker 1: of the torn acl they have him falling perhaps to
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, and then Traylan Burks out of Arkansas. Can
Speaker 1: you give us a quick thumbnail on both guys as
Speaker 1: you see them? Both talented cancer I don't want to
Speaker 1: speak too much on individual guys, but both talented, both
Speaker 1: worthy of the twenty third pick. Be happy to have
Speaker 1: either of them. How do you assess whether it's a
Speaker 1: Jamison Williams and John Metchi David A. Jabo of Michigan
Speaker 1: in terms of those injuries and the fact they may
Speaker 1: not be ready at the start of twenty and twenty two.
Speaker 1: How does that impact maybe the decision making it? Does
Speaker 1: you have to you know, when when was the injury?
Speaker 1: When is he going to be ready? Is there any
Speaker 1: type of degeneration that's gonna hurt his ability to sign
Speaker 1: him to a second contract. So you have to factor
Speaker 1: all that stuff and we'll we'll meet with the doctors
Speaker 1: um and kind of go or that that information. But
Speaker 1: I mean, we we drafted out Brian Scholefield in the
Speaker 1: fourth round. If you remember a handful of years ago. Um,
Speaker 1: and that was that was a guy who probably would
Speaker 1: have been a second round pick. Um. But again that
Speaker 1: was risk involved in that player. He was devalued because
Speaker 1: of the injury. We take him in the fourth round.
Speaker 1: He ended up being a productive cardinal. Um. It's the
Speaker 1: same thing at in the first round that you have
Speaker 1: to deal with again with a Jabo who's obviously a
Speaker 1: talented first round type player. UM, but he again he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna lose it all seem because when is he
Speaker 1: going to be ready? When is that Achille's gonna gonna heal?
Speaker 1: How many starts are you gonna get out of him?
Speaker 1: You know? Um, I've been talking about in that in
Speaker 1: regards to that, like a guy like Landon Dickerson last
Speaker 1: year who went UM in the second round to Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: had a late season ACL at Alabama. They ended up
Speaker 1: getting fourteen starts out of the out of the kids.
Speaker 1: So again, if you could sit there and say, well,
Speaker 1: what are we going to get out of him? We
Speaker 1: get this many starts, then you know, maybe you feel
Speaker 1: better about the pick. But that's good. Again, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be up to what the doctors tell us. And guys
Speaker 1: like that former first round pick who's now an Arizona Cardinal.
Speaker 1: Jeff Gladdening tell us about him and why why he
Speaker 1: signed on the line that has data with a Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and what you like about him. Well, the fact that
Speaker 1: it's to me, it's a freebee. We got an extra
Speaker 1: first round pick, you know, basically in free agency. Incredibly
Speaker 1: quick footed, highly instinctive player. It's a reason again he
Speaker 1: went into the first round and we're getting a you know,
Speaker 1: a starter in our building with and we didn't you know,
Speaker 1: waste any draft capital basically, so um, he helps us out.
Speaker 1: Immediately excited to have him, and he's gonna help a
Speaker 1: big time again. I'll take him that next step. We
Speaker 1: know the value that you guys place in linement. Offensive line.
Speaker 1: I think four of the five starters are gonna be
Speaker 1: in the final year of their deal or in one
Speaker 1: year deal. And then defensive line with the loss of
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips and Corey Peters, etc. So Daniel Jeremiah on
Speaker 1: the pashpod set and I quote the defensive lineman Davante
Speaker 1: Wyatt feels like a Steve Kind pig. That's what he said.
Speaker 1: Just in general, though, how about that defensive tackle position,
Speaker 1: and what do you think about it in this year's draft?
Speaker 1: Strong strong interesting again, I mean you talk about him
Speaker 1: or his or his teammate, Um Jordan Davis, who you
Speaker 1: know ran four seven at three hundred and forty one pounds. There,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a talented group. And again don't want
Speaker 1: to speak too much on individual guys, but um it's
Speaker 1: definitely a deep class and also on the offensive line
Speaker 1: side too. Um So, But again, I don't know how
Speaker 1: it's gonna fall into one twenty and I don't know
Speaker 1: who's gonna with the twenty two picks before us are
Speaker 1: gonna look like. So you know, if a D lineman's
Speaker 1: there and he's the top guy, that's gonna be the guy.
Speaker 1: If it's a guard, if it's a tackle, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I guess we're gonna stick to the philosophy. We're
Speaker 1: going to stick take on the best player, because if
Speaker 1: you want to keep that offensive line off, you're two
Speaker 1: young first round inside linebackers. I mean, defensive tackle isn't
Speaker 1: a bad way to go, right, absolutely no doubt. How
Speaker 1: about when you look at the division, to what degree
Speaker 1: do you assess the NFC West and the strength of
Speaker 1: your opponents in the division. As to what your wants
Speaker 1: and needs are from year to year, you have to
Speaker 1: consider it, no doubt. And you know, if you're playing
Speaker 1: athletic tight ends or if you're trying to contain Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: you know that's something that always has to factor in.
Speaker 1: But again, I don't think you need to press or
Speaker 1: drive up a player because of that need again, because
Speaker 1: then I think you pass on you know, possibly a
Speaker 1: better player. I don't, you know. But it's something that
Speaker 1: no doubt factors. So we had Rasha Johnson on last week,
Speaker 1: former Cardinals safety is you know, member of the Bama
Speaker 1: broadcast crew any draft from when we took him, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and he told a couple of stories and look, his
Speaker 1: backstory is a big reason you took him as one
Speaker 1: of the only two time team captains for Nick Saban
Speaker 1: and program history of former walk on at Alabama, right,
Speaker 1: he had those intangible He talked about Jamison Williams not
Speaker 1: only is a an elite speed guy and a great receiver,
Speaker 1: but he was a gunner right and special teams and
Speaker 1: he's tough. He got kicked out of a game for
Speaker 1: getting too physical and too intense. And then we mentioned
Speaker 1: Treylon Burkes. So when he tells the story, Burks does,
Speaker 1: all right, this according to Trey Wingo that uh that
Speaker 1: he goes out hunting wild boar with a knife and
Speaker 1: his dogs and quote, some people probably consider me crazy,
Speaker 1: but that's just how I am. Right. How big a
Speaker 1: plus is that in the war room when a guy
Speaker 1: sort of has that sort of mentality. Well, I think
Speaker 1: with Sean Jefferson, here's that that makes him like it,
Speaker 1: like him even more. Uh So, But you know absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean you just think about that mentality. He's he
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's a that's a guy that that
Speaker 1: can get down and dirty. He's a dog. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: he's not afraid to work. He's not afraid to get
Speaker 1: a little grimy. Uh you know that that's uh, you
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get from that kid, you know,
Speaker 1: just just with that mentality. And as we wrap it
Speaker 1: up with Drew Grigson here, what's left on the free
Speaker 1: agent market? Do you still expect action from the Cardinals? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's not over. I mean if you think about where
Speaker 1: we when we signed James Conner last year, it was
Speaker 1: a month in the free agency. We ended up getting
Speaker 1: a pro border with eighteen touchdowns that we just signed
Speaker 1: to a new three year deal. So you know, if
Speaker 1: the doors never closed, we're going to keep looking at
Speaker 1: those names that are out there, are going to keep
Speaker 1: working the phones and talking to agents and keep trying
Speaker 1: to put the best ninety on the field before training camp.
Speaker 1: So we're scanning it every day, and we're working the
Speaker 1: phones every day, and Steve is working it every day.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna keep churning those names until we have
Speaker 1: the best roster possible before training camp. So how spirited
Speaker 1: has it been, Drew? I mean, if we had those
Speaker 1: hard knocks cameras behind those doors in the war room,
Speaker 1: how energetic I'm using a euphemism right now. Has it
Speaker 1: been behind there? Very this year? Very energetic? And you
Speaker 1: know I kind of start the meeting by saying, guys, listen,
Speaker 1: we want it to be energetic. We don't want group think.
Speaker 1: We want differences opinion, and with that difference of opinion
Speaker 1: comes passion, and the guys are paid to be passionate
Speaker 1: about I don't want you just read the news. I
Speaker 1: want you to finish talking about the player and I
Speaker 1: want to know if you love them, do you want
Speaker 1: them to be a Cardinal. So it got spirited. It
Speaker 1: gets spirited, but we do it with respect, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's the most important thing at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. You may love a player, I may not
Speaker 1: like the player, but we're just gonna try to get
Speaker 1: him right for the Cardinals because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, we're trying to draft that player to make
Speaker 1: us better, get to win a championship. That's what we're
Speaker 1: all trying to do. We're all trying to get better.
Speaker 1: We're all trying to win. So we have respect amongst
Speaker 1: each other. We have spirited conversation and we all have
Speaker 1: our own opinions, and that's what makes this thing great.
Speaker 1: That's how you get a Buddha Baker in round two, right,
Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson right in round five of us supplement of
Speaker 1: Marco Wilson and round four. It's having those conversations and
Speaker 1: it's it's talking it out and you know, gathering all
Speaker 1: that information that we've spent years getting and putting it
Speaker 1: to work for us. True, thank you, thank you. All. Right,
Speaker 1: there you go. Drew Grigson, director of Player of Personnel
Speaker 1: on the Big Red Rage. We continue right after this.
Speaker 1: Let's start that off as Bruce arians act. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about that at Murray and shot gun snapped the Kyler
Speaker 1: at a ton of little short set. See I did
Speaker 1: that short set a little bit now throwing deep fire
Speaker 1: side and is pulled in into five yard. All right,
Speaker 1: hold on, I gotta grab myself a crown royal. Here
Speaker 1: a little sipp in debate, little sipp in debates? Did
Speaker 1: NIPPERU finished the callege? Jack Nicholson. AJ Green just too strong,
Speaker 1: too big, too athletic. To Tracy Morgan, I want a
Speaker 1: great read by Kyler Murray to throw the ball. Say
Speaker 1: it as Morgan Freeman, What a great read by Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray to throw the ball. You've got a scarecrow on
Speaker 1: a stick. Put it out there, let him go get it.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what a J. Green did. Can you do
Speaker 1: it as Liam Neeson? Want a great read by Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray to throw the ball. You've got a scarecrow on
Speaker 1: a stick, Put it out there, let him go get it.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what a J. Green did. Oh man, oh man,
Speaker 1: that is just so legendary. That episode of the Pashpod
Speaker 1: with Frank Caliendo, the master of all voices that Tracy Morgan,
Speaker 1: by the way, is still underrated in my opinion, And
Speaker 1: that was based on your call a forty one yard
Speaker 1: AJ Green touchdown catch and run against the Rams, right
Speaker 1: and the scarecrow on a stick, right, That's that's what
Speaker 1: he was, That's what he was using as a muse,
Speaker 1: right there wasn't he? Yes, Paul it But honestly, every
Speaker 1: one of those absolutely nails from Frankie just entertaining stuff
Speaker 1: and the Day Pash podcast. In fact, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to some of that the most recent edition here momentarily.
Speaker 1: But what did you make of Drew Grickson and his
Speaker 1: comments on AJ Green in the news today that he
Speaker 1: resigned another one year deal for the years in a
Speaker 1: Cardinals two thousand. Yeah. Now, first of all, let me
Speaker 1: just say, Paul, I thought you did an awesome job Withdrew.
Speaker 1: And I'm not just saying that so because you're my friend,
Speaker 1: but well, we missed you, We missed you. But you know,
Speaker 1: the footprints are on the table again, like he said,
Speaker 1: So that's good. That was just fantastic right there. And
Speaker 1: I thought Drew, of course, he is demonstrating why at
Speaker 1: some point in time he will be considered as a
Speaker 1: general manager down the road, of course, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely is on the horizon for Drew. You know, a
Speaker 1: couple of observations in terms of what he said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the aj Green thing was right on, spot on, But
Speaker 1: for the most part I thought it was interesting he
Speaker 1: was talking about this draft and how much deeper this
Speaker 1: draft is because of the guys coming back from COVID.
Speaker 1: That is something I didn't think of Paulli. And yet
Speaker 1: at the same time, it really makes an awful lot
Speaker 1: of sense. One of the reasons why you might have
Speaker 1: twenty now he said, twenty edge rushers. That might be
Speaker 1: a little strong right there from Daniel Jeremiah, but still
Speaker 1: it might be one of the reasons why you do
Speaker 1: have more depth at some of these positions. Yes, and
Speaker 1: even if you don't have twenty blue Chippers at edge,
Speaker 1: for example, you do have more depth late in the draft, right,
Speaker 1: I said. And so when the Cardinals have two picks
Speaker 1: in the sixth round and three and the seventh, those
Speaker 1: might be more valuable than ever. Right. And then and
Speaker 1: then free agents guys who don't sign, there's going to
Speaker 1: be a big fury to go ahead and in a
Speaker 1: frenzy to get those guys you know. So now, as
Speaker 1: for last year and Rondelle Moore, let's go back to
Speaker 1: what Shaun Jefferson told us on a recent edition offseason
Speaker 1: edition here of the Big Red Rage, because last year's
Speaker 1: round two pick might just be a receiver to this year.
Speaker 1: Here's Sean Jefferson. The next step for him is talking
Speaker 1: to more down field, adding to his route tree. You
Speaker 1: know it's coming in as a rookie. You know, you
Speaker 1: got de Hobb, you got Christen Kirg, you got aj Green.
Speaker 1: So he's kind of lost in that, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying about being a rookie and everything like that.
Speaker 1: But that's one of the things that me and ronde
Speaker 1: Hall discussed about growing his routes. So you've been able
Speaker 1: to put him outside a little bit more where he
Speaker 1: can run some of those routes on the outside, so
Speaker 1: his route tree would grow leaps and bounds. And we
Speaker 1: bring that up just to get us to a receiver
Speaker 1: in this trap because roll, I mean the last few years,
Speaker 1: I and look I own it. I would cite the
Speaker 1: hit rate on first round receivers and I would scream no, no,
Speaker 1: and more no. But I look at some of the
Speaker 1: guys this year. For example, a realistic possibility according to
Speaker 1: most of the mocked as Arkansas receiver Treylon Birds six
Speaker 1: two two twenty five. He benches three eighty, he squats
Speaker 1: five hundred in just the way the Cardinals may or
Speaker 1: may not be going in terms of the physicality. He
Speaker 1: just seems to fit their identity. And if you're feeding
Speaker 1: it to James Connor and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you're giving a quick bubble screen or maybe a quick
Speaker 1: slant to a Treylon Burks and you're just hammering defenses,
Speaker 1: I could see him being the guy at twenty three. Yeah, Polly,
Speaker 1: you know once again too. I will also say that
Speaker 1: Treylon Burks a guy that I think is really good
Speaker 1: at getting off the press. He's got great size, as
Speaker 1: you've already mentioned, six to two hundred and twenty five pounds.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that ran like a four five
Speaker 1: five Polly, that is his time for the forty. But
Speaker 1: most people think that he's faster. He's got game speed.
Speaker 1: In other words, he runs as fast as it. Very
Speaker 1: similar to Jerry Rice. Jerry Rice was that way coming
Speaker 1: out of college. Jerry ran a four six five on
Speaker 1: a clock. Yet you threw that ball into the air.
Speaker 1: Isn't that right? Joe Montana and Jerry Rice was gonna
Speaker 1: run as fast as he needed to to get underneath it.
Speaker 1: Treylon Burks reminds me an awful lot like that, But
Speaker 1: also to Paulli, this is me. I continue to say this,
Speaker 1: and I continue to believe the Arizona Cardinals. They're gonna
Speaker 1: go with a lot more twelve personnel, two tight end sets,
Speaker 1: and with a guy like DeAndre Hopkins on one side
Speaker 1: and then maybe a Treylon Burks or even Rondell More
Speaker 1: of course on the other side, or now aj Green,
Speaker 1: They're going to attack the line of scrimmage and take
Speaker 1: some shots down the field. The bashi and bomb perspective
Speaker 1: of Bruce Arians. It's not going to be the bashi
Speaker 1: and bomb offense of Bruce Arians, Polly, That's never going
Speaker 1: to be the case here. Yet, having said that, it's
Speaker 1: still gonna be that type of impact I think on
Speaker 1: this offense, and that means you're gonna take some shots
Speaker 1: down the field. You want big, physical guys who can
Speaker 1: get off the press. Daniel Jeremiah on the Passpod this
Speaker 1: week and he was asked by Dave about trey Lin
Speaker 1: Burkes the SEC first team or out of Arkansas. To me,
Speaker 1: the most intriguing one is Burks because he gives him
Speaker 1: a two hundred and twenty five pound guy that can
Speaker 1: do a lot of the stuff that they do, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of getting the ball in his hands, let
Speaker 1: him run after the catch, and it just gives him
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different look than what they've had.
Speaker 1: You know, Gosh, you watched Debo and you see him
Speaker 1: inside the division. The ability to put him in the backfield,
Speaker 1: do different things, get the ball out of your hand
Speaker 1: quick and let guys make plays with the football. That's
Speaker 1: what he does. Arkansas lined him up everywhere except offensive line. Literally,
Speaker 1: he was a quarterback, he was in the backfield, he
Speaker 1: was a tight end, he was at all the receiver spots.
Speaker 1: They just found a way to get him in the ball,
Speaker 1: not unlike a Deebo Samuel. So you know, it just
Speaker 1: it's intriguing. And then to have a guy with that
Speaker 1: sort of physicality a receiver and that's sort of mentality
Speaker 1: he's out there. I mean, you heard Drew Grigson talk
Speaker 1: about what a plus it is when you hear a
Speaker 1: guy is out hunting wild boar with a knife, and
Speaker 1: his dogs. You know who I think of is that's
Speaker 1: who I think and you just you're you're trying to
Speaker 1: find that sort of guy who gives you that sort
Speaker 1: of mentality un offense. Yeah, now you're right about that, Bali,
Speaker 1: And it's going to be really, really interesting to see
Speaker 1: because even at twenty three right now, I do believe
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals they need on the edge. We know
Speaker 1: that they need a wide receiver, they need a corner,
Speaker 1: they need a defensive tackle. In my opinion, they need
Speaker 1: an offensive guard as well. But that again is number six,
Speaker 1: so that's well down the draft board chart of needs.
Speaker 1: But Polly, they they are in a great position to
Speaker 1: take the best player available, whomever that may be. And
Speaker 1: I got a good feeling DeVante White could be there
Speaker 1: at number twenty three and I wouldn't be shocked. I
Speaker 1: would not be shocked. And it's not because Daniel Jeremiah
Speaker 1: said it. It's just I would not be shocked to
Speaker 1: see Steve Kim in the Arizona Cardinals take DeVante whatt
Speaker 1: if he's there. Well, quoting Drew Grigson loosely, he likes
Speaker 1: twenty three for the fact that, you know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a football player. You might not get all
Speaker 1: the hype and all the combine numbers and all the
Speaker 1: flash and all that. At that point, a lot of
Speaker 1: those guys are gone. You're going to get a baller. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, DeVante Wyatt is a motorhead, Paul, he's a motorhead.
Speaker 1: This is a guy. It's not the motorhead the grease
Speaker 1: or Paul, don't think about that. And some guy that's
Speaker 1: smoking cigarettes Paul in his grease back hair and he's
Speaker 1: working on cars, Paul, That's not what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about just a motorhead. This is a guy
Speaker 1: that just has got a motor and he's just gonna
Speaker 1: he's gonna turn that thing on, Paul. And he's three
Speaker 1: hundred three pounds. And oh, by the way, he ran
Speaker 1: a four seven seven at three hundred three pounds. Okay,
Speaker 1: this guy is Okay, I'm kind of in love with
Speaker 1: this guy, right. I think about Wyatt, I admit it.
Speaker 1: I think a motorhead. I think of the band, and
Speaker 1: I think in the Lake great Lemmy the lead singer.
Speaker 1: But what about what about what about that would be
Speaker 1: his nickname? Yeah, it's beautiful Lemon. That's good, by the way.
Speaker 1: Jeff Gladney, how about his comments, I'm Gladney True Grigson,
Speaker 1: director of player Personnel. Because we haven't heard a lot
Speaker 1: from the decision makers. I'm Gladney. He called him a freebee,
Speaker 1: an extra first round pick. You know that you didn't
Speaker 1: have to expend any draft capital. He's got the quick feat,
Speaker 1: he's instinctive, he's physical. Jeff Gladney, the former first rounder
Speaker 1: out of TCU who missed last year. And and you're
Speaker 1: talking he called him a starter as well. Yeah, he did, bully.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I wrote down in my notes right here.
Speaker 1: Okay he said the same thing, first round pick, but
Speaker 1: he said starter. He's a starter, And okay, Um, I
Speaker 1: don't want to get too excited about that, Polly, because honestly,
Speaker 1: once again, UM, you'd be talking about a guy that
Speaker 1: is going to play his second year in the league. Um,
Speaker 1: prove it, you know what I mean, young guy, That's
Speaker 1: what it's all about. It's all a while proving it.
Speaker 1: You know. I don't get too excited about draft picks
Speaker 1: coming in and making a huge difference unless his name
Speaker 1: is Davante Wyatt. Then all of a sudden, I get
Speaker 1: a little jacked up on that BALI But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I listen, Rook, prove it. You know, so
Speaker 1: I want to see I want to see veterans. I
Speaker 1: want to see veterans, and I want to see veterans
Speaker 1: actually make the difference for the Arizona Cardinals offensively and
Speaker 1: defensively by going out and playing up to their ability
Speaker 1: and doing it in a more physical way. He called
Speaker 1: the edge rusher group, by the way, deep and diverse.
Speaker 1: You get guys who are long, you get guys, speed, guys.
Speaker 1: You know, you have some power guys. You have some
Speaker 1: edge rushers who put up a lot of production. Other
Speaker 1: guys who didn't have the production, but they have the traits.
Speaker 1: So but see, I hear Jeff Gladney starter, I think
Speaker 1: if they're going corner, it's round three or beyond. I
Speaker 1: think automatically it's d line, it's receiver, or its whole
Speaker 1: line in those first two rounds. That's just me and
Speaker 1: that's just my direct And you know what, I think,
Speaker 1: Oh line, we're not talking enough about. I think that's
Speaker 1: probably more of an underrated area. If there is like
Speaker 1: that guard out of Texas, A and M and I
Speaker 1: always forget his name. If he's sitting there at number
Speaker 1: twenty three, not be Kenyan Green, I would not be
Speaker 1: surprised at all if he's an Arizona Cardinal. Exactly right.
Speaker 1: Not only that too, PAULI. But the board is set.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that? The horizontal The horizontal board is set.
Speaker 1: Now the one twenty has got to be sat up
Speaker 1: and they're gonna take three days to do that. Oh baby,
Speaker 1: that is the best of the best, setting the one twenty.
Speaker 1: And you know what, you can get ready with episode
Speaker 1: twenty eight of the Dave Pash Podcast featuring NFL Network
Speaker 1: Draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah, available now wherever you get your podcasts,
Speaker 1: and to catch up on past episodes, of course, you
Speaker 1: can just go via Twitter at Pash pod. So there
Speaker 1: you go. Look, we're gonna come back. We got a
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Speaker 1: you know, with the disappointing end to the season that
Speaker 1: we had last year, you know, certainly it's stunned. We'll
Speaker 1: be back. We leave that, you know, I thought last
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Speaker 1: and so looking forward to all that and then the
Speaker 1: course they're going to add to this offseason shortly two
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Speaker 1: by the way, Wolf do you see earlier today the
Speaker 1: NFL research team crunched the numbers on strength of schedule.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals upcoming schedule number two. In terms of strength
Speaker 1: of schedule, the Rams had the most difficult, the hard
Speaker 1: to schedule. The Cardinals are second, Cincinnati, the Bengals are third,
Speaker 1: Tampa's fourth, and then the Niners and KC are fifth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, Polly that it's really really tough when you
Speaker 1: see that. And I'm not trying to pooh pooh anything,
Speaker 1: but you know, what's a year to year proposition? It is,
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Speaker 1: So interesting when you look through you know my big
Speaker 1: fear right now, wolf is I name these other teams
Speaker 1: and I start thinking, okay, is someone gonna make a
Speaker 1: run at all these receivers before the Cardinals pick at
Speaker 1: number twenty three because the Eagles are at eighteen. A
Speaker 1: lot of mocks have him going receiver. The Saints at
Speaker 1: nineteen supposedly that's their number one one or need the
Speaker 1: Patriots need receivers at twenty one. Now, the Packers got
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins today, but they easily could still go receiver
Speaker 1: at twenty two, No, no doubt about that, Polly. And
Speaker 1: you know what's so fascinating is Jamison Williams that is
Speaker 1: the guy from Alabama. That is the guy, Polly, that
Speaker 1: I wonder about because of his injury, because of the
Speaker 1: fact that he's probably not going to be back until October,
Speaker 1: maybe even November. That is a very interesting proposition at
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Will the New York Jets stop and think
Speaker 1: about it right now? The New York Jets at number four.
Speaker 1: I could see them take him as high as number
Speaker 1: four because he has been compared to Tyree Hill. Paul, Hello,
Speaker 1: the closest thing to Tyree Hill. Okay, Jamison Williams. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden at number four, Okay, he's not
Speaker 1: going to be back to November. What did the New
Speaker 1: York Jets care? Because, Polly, do you think the New
Speaker 1: York Jets really think they're in there running for a
Speaker 1: postseason position? I doubted Paul so not in their division, No, PAULI.
Speaker 1: And because they needed wide receiver badly as well. I
Speaker 1: would not be surprised because most people will tell you
Speaker 1: that Jamison Williams would be the highest wide receiver rated
Speaker 1: in this draft if it were not for his injury,
Speaker 1: and I believe that, Yeah, that is a great observation,
Speaker 1: and that would be a shrewd pick by the Jets.
Speaker 1: I mean to do that top five, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: All right, Wolf, we had a retirement. It was official today.
Speaker 1: I had the honor of attending the lunchtime ceremony that
Speaker 1: was conducted by Michael Bidwell. It featured a video shout
Speaker 1: out from both Joe Buck Yes the legendary broadcaster, and
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald. And it was all an honor of Mark
Speaker 1: Allmeyer forty one years as the Cardinals equipment guru. And
Speaker 1: I mean, think about some of his service and what
Speaker 1: he did for the Arizona Cardinals effect. Here's the stat
Speaker 1: over five different decades, Wolf, Mark Allmyer worked eight hundred
Speaker 1: twenty three total games and it more than thirty six
Speaker 1: hundred Cardinals player including yourself, incredible, Polly. He'll be ever,
Speaker 1: he'll forever, I should say, be known as Markson. All right, Markson,
Speaker 1: of course, I mean that's what I learned his name
Speaker 1: to be, Markson when I showed up in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: five and he was working for Bill Simmons, also known
Speaker 1: as Skinhead. There he was, and forty one years later, Man,
Speaker 1: congratulations to Marks in the NFL Equipment Manager of the
Speaker 1: Year in two thousand and eight. In two thousand and fourteen,
Speaker 1: We love your brother. Yeah yeah, he's the Saint Louis guy.
Speaker 1: Came with the Cardinals from Saint Louis. They even flew
Speaker 1: in Emo's Pizza from Saint Louis. Today, Wolf, I mean
Speaker 1: three words outstanding. I was great. I mean people couldn't
Speaker 1: get enough of the Emo's Pizza special. Thanks as always,
Speaker 1: Drew Grigson, the Director of Player Personnel, Jim I'm a Hundre,
Speaker 1: Lauren Coble, Ron wolf leyl. Paul Calvec. This has been
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