Big Red Rage - Andy Isabella Becoming Confident Playmaker

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It sounds impossible, nearly insurmountable, but wolf with full effort here over the next hour on the Big Red Rage presented by satan Ford and Gilbert, we are satan Ford. I think it is achievable. I think that the real Thursday Night Football can save America and at least Arizona from Jets Broncos's that's our save America from the own three Jets against the Owen three Broncos from don't call him Mark Rippin, It's Brett Rippin, and Sam is not the man Darnold coming off the two picks, sixes and

three interceptions in his last game. You know, even though I might have gotten a little over my skis at this time a week ago when I said the Cardinals at two and oh, we're about to save us all from twenty twenty, that might have been a little paully premature, and I'm gonna have to back off that a little bit right now, Sam Darnold actually run forty six yards for a touch shock. Is that what you're trying to

tell me right now? Paul? My phone has not been compatible with Thursday night Football, So I have no idea. I have no I tried to stream it right here. I can't. I have no clue. You tell me, yeah, I actually, Paul, I'm trying to hunt that down myself, because that was a rumor. That was a rumor floating around the newsroom here in studio Shangra Law at some house some way. This guy ran for forty six yards

at a touchdown. I don't believe it, but you're gonna have to confirm it a little bit later, because right now, Paul, we're doing a show. What's upon a time? Didn't Steve Bono goes seventy something yards on that end around right against sun Double Stadium? We all remember that. Yeah, when you when you say Sam Darnold going forty six yards,

that's what I think of right away. But yes, it's it is Thursday night, it is a Cardinals team coming off the loss against Detroit, and a few of us, Okay, maybe yours truly maybe got a little premature with a whole Heymatt, Patricia, you're gonna need another pencil. One isn't enough for the legs and armor Kayler Murray, And yes, we may or may not have had him going five and zero entering Monday night football against So will if you tell me what happened and what level of concern

do you have, if any? Right now? I'm really not concerned, Polly. And the reason why is because Kyler Murray went out and through three interceptions. Two of those I think we're bad interceptions, and I think Kyler Murray would tell you that himself. Two of those interceptions that were turnovers deep in the Cardinals own zone. The Lions got the ball on the twenty two yard line and the twenty six yard line, you're basically giving up six points at that

point in time, you're giving up six points. Well, the defense did a nice job going out there and keeping it to ten. Okay to me, yeah, it would have been great if they would have been able to just keep it to six points. But that's a tough proposition for any defense to go out there, quick change after a turnover and keep the other team out of the end zone right there. I thought they did a nice

job actually, And that's the one area. One of the areas that the Cardinals defense really is playing pretty well, Polly is in the red zone. Yea, their number two is a matter of fact, and red zone defense that's pretty dog gone good. Number two in red zone number one and third down, Hello, they've been good and quick change. As you just documented. Here's the thing. They don't have

any interceptions. And it was a game where the offense committed three turnovers with the picks and there were zero takeaways. And the percentages say that is a monumental challenge to get a win. And sure enough, that last second field goal was Zeros on the clock was like a kick to the gut that game winner, and the Cardinals end up on the short end twenty six, twenty three, And now they get a Carolina team that just ended a

ten game losing streak, albeit minus Christian McCaffrey. But it's on the road, and we all know that Matt Roland Cliff Kingsbury have a history. So there are a lot of intriguing storylines on that one. Did we mention that Andy Isabella is joining us tonight on the Big Red Rage? After a two touchdown performance run hopeful, just getting rolling,

all brought to you by Santan four. Murray takes play action, Murray moving to his left, jukes a defender in the five dies but the end zone in his end but a touchdown. He did it again. He made the defender look silly out in space. Woooooooooooo wall. That was nasty right there, rights the move that Kyler murtherer he put on. I mean, the Stooges couldn't have done it any better than that Wolf? Was that Larry? Was that Curly? Was that Shemp? Who was that? That was Curly? Right there?

Not Larry, of course, not moll Curly, of course, sure because on the sideline. Remember I used to say, welcome back into the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Andy Isabella straight ahead on this edition, our week four edition. Remember I used to say that nothing would get the sideline up and off the bench and fired up like a running back. Just trucking a defender Wells was great. David Johnson, Right, Okay, there's a new

one though. When Kyler Murray does that, When Kyler Murray just clowns especially a dB in space and then houses it, even if it's a one yard run like that, it just I cannot tell you how everyone gets fired. Probably the moment on the Sunday without any fans to feed off. It's a big deal. Patrick Peterson came over this big, flying faux karate kick, you know, just celebrated. It's just to put that in perspective. And Rob Frederickson and Bertrand

Berry we're talking about on the pregame show. Guys fear that, don't they not just getting beat but getting embarrassed. Oh, no doubt about it, bully, they really do. Nobody wants to get trucked. Nobody wants to get run over in front of their wife sitting up in row five right in four kids. I'm just saying small though they might be. Nobody wants to get embarrassed out there when you've got your family sitting in the stands. While not now with COVID of course, but you get my point, Bolly overall

watching it's the same thing with players. Players don't want to be embarrassed. They know they're gonna sit down watch the tape on Monday, and suddenly you're one on one with Barry Sanders. Yeah, you're gonna drop your drawers metaphorically speaking. Well, look, that was a highlight, but there were things that Kyler was not happy with. In fact, he took the blame. It's Kyler took the blame for the turnovers three interceptions. Cliff Kingsbury took the blame for his play calling. Coach

is always hard on himself. And here they are after the game talking about the twenty six twenty three last second loss to the Lions as part of the game and playing his game. My whole life dealt with obstacles, ups and downs. There's gonna be adversity in every game. That's just part of it. We understand that if I will turn the ball over three times a day. We put ourselves in a better chaft to one day game.

Definitely pushing the m love. He's trying to make a lot of plays and create and you got to walk that fine line and you know he's going to be aggressive and that's what we want. And even with all that, we had the ball at the chance to win the game at the end, and his kind of playmak ability allows us to do that even more or not playing at our best, he keeps us in those games. But we'll continue to clean that up and I think as the season goes on, that'll be less of an issue.

On game Plan his weekly TV show Wolf that we host, I asked coach Kingsbury, was there a lesson learned there for a young team? And he said, you can't give away games. That's a game that I feel like we should have won. Yeah, to you, what stood out big picture on that? Well, honestly, I didn't think the team overall played poorly in all three phases. I really didn't believe that. Paula. I think the offense I Kyler Murray, There's no doubt about it. You can't talk about the

offense without talking about Kyler Murray. But I thought the other ten guys on the field went out there and they competed, and I thought Kyler competed as well. It's going to happen to some young quarterbacks. It's going to happen. You're gonna go out there as you're developing and you're gonna throw picks. Again, I think only two of them you could really put at Kyler's feet. Now, I don't know schematically if Cliff Kingsbury would disagree with that and say, no,

I shouldn't have called that play in that situation. But I thought there were two picks that you could look at Kyler and say, boy, those were bad. The one where he got his arm hit, that one to Dan Arnold where it was batted up in the area. I think that's PAULI that's gonna happen. But what I love about all of this, Number one, the accountability from Kyler Murray. I love that Paul, just the fact that he said

it the way that it is. You know what, if I don't go out there and throw those three picks, we probably win this game. He said it the way that it was. I absolutely love the accountability coming from Kyler Murray, but asked me, if I'm worried, Paul asked me, if I'm worried this kid. You listen to this kid talk right here. This Kyler Murray is so resilient, Paul resilient. He's got a fierce spirit as well. This guy is

a winner. There's not Kyler Murray is the least of the Arizona Cardinals problems going forward, and he's still learning. He just made his nineteen start. And for example, he talked this week about how in the first two games against the Niners in Washington, they got a somewhat similar defensive look, similar defensive personnel, the way those defenses are constructed, and it was radically different what Matt Patricia did. There

were multiple looks, there were disguised coverages. They didn't necessarily go after him. They try to box him in rush three or four, drop seven or eight. It was a different challenge for Kyler Murray in week three. I guess my question is now, do other teams, because as a copycat league, start to replicate that, Yes, Polly to your answer, yes, this is something I think they're going to continue to work on. Of course, listen, the book is still forming

on Kyler Murray. But the mush rush is something that I think we're going to hear an awful lot of a strategy that teams are going to start using it, I think against Kyler Murray. And it's a strategy that was used many times against Russell Wilson earlier in his career, and to some degree, they still used this approach on Russell Wilson right collapse the pocket around him, a four

man rush. Sometimes if you want to bring five, that's fine, but drop back play coverage, depend on your secondary in your DBS to make plays rush for don't open up the lane for that quarterback to get out of that pocket. I think this is going to be the approach a lot of zone being played as well, and then maybe the surprise every now and then we'll be jumping into man and hoping he makes a mistake. But yeah, we're

gonna see it again. You better believe it well. As Corey Peters said, team captain, sometimes winning can be a band aid over things that we do wrong. And so guess what the band aid was just ripped off and now you can address a few things. And as good as a defense has been, Corey Peters said, it himself. They didn't get off the field at the end of the first half on a scoring drive and obviously at the end of the game. So we'll talk more about that and the latest. But out out one of the

stars of the game gonna join us next. Andy Isabella on deck on the big red raiding Tylan Murray's got the ball, dropped back to throw a lot passed right corner of the ends. One on the money to Andy Isabella for the touchdown. What a pass by Kyler Murray and you see the confidence of Andy Isabella soaring for the Cardinals. Thro straw grasshopper snapped the Murray rolls right, throws right, Isabella caught it. Pandy stumbles, dives and in touchdown.

Andy Isabella with his second touchdown catch of the day. One step up the field and wham, run that out. He chucked the dB, he met the press and he threw him out of the way. Day passed Ron wolfully, not one but two touchdown catchers in the Cardinals last game against the Lions. The thirteen yard or the four yarder against press. The man is getting some serious separation

and Wolf maybe the best news of all. If you remember back to a couple of months ago when we had one of our favorites, Andy Isabella, on the Big Red Rage. Remember what he revealed about that game ball from last year, the eighty eight yard touchdown gable, and that he was using that for his training. So now Andy, welcome to the Big Red Rage. Good evening. But you can finally put that on a shelf where it belongs, because now you have a couple other touchdown balls you

can incorporate into your daily training routines. Yeah, that the eighty eight yarders getting a little old, So I got two more and two more to work with, so we'll get a lot more this season. So so I have a lot going into this all season. No, it's only three games. But how are you feeling, buddy, how are you feeling overall about the start of this season? Well,

I've never felt better. It's been awesome started. I mean, I mean, yeah, we had we had the tough loss last week for two and one going into Carolina, and I mean, I think everyone's on a good page and we're ready to move past Detroit and we're ready to get this win. I guess both. Earlier in the show, Lesson learned on the first loss of this season. What stood out to you and what do you think, guys take away from that game? You mean, we're two and o riding high. This toy was owen two and Um,

you can't. You can't take any game for granted. And the coach said that wasn't us. He in the locker room said that wasn't us. But he said, maybe it's the best thing for us. And um, but we had a we We've had a great week of practice so far, and we'll be ready to go here in Carolina. You know, Andy, you've made a lot of big plays. You've had a lot of big plays only three games into the season. Big guy, you made a lot of big plays so far. What is that doing for Your confidence is sky rocketing.

And I mean it's not even I don't think it's making a big plays, just being being confident at all times and and just something my mind is. My coach says, keep a call mind, and that's what I've done. I cut the call mind this this whole these through these

first three games and has really helped me. Um, just being the moment on the field and being that moment and capture that moment um, capture every opportunity that comes my way because when we talked to you at the beginning of the season, you had mentioned your rookie season that that was a key part if your evolution into becoming a pro right, gaining that confidence that if you had to give some advice to a young guy, a rookie this year, it would be no for sure that

you belong here. I mean that that's a big deal, isn't it. Yeah? Absolutely, Just just being calm and taking every day and working every day and not looking too far ahead, and just being present every day and being present every every opportunity you get. And he was there a moment where you were just I don't know, you couldn't sleep one night. You were up at two three in the morning recently, and you're watching the shadows creep across the ceiling, and you said to yourself, I I

belong here. I mean, I just have you had a moment where you know deep in your heart that you're going to go on, Lord willing have a ten year career in the NFL. Absolutely, I mean that's whatever you gotta visualize, You gotta visualize it, visualize that in your head um and may make it happen. I mean that's That's just one of my big things that've done this off season. Just he's met it. And visualize, visualize my success,

and visualize visualize all the things that are calling my way. Well, what's the old saying, you plan your work, work your plan. Here's Cliff Kingsbury talking about Andy Isabella. He's done a nice job all through training camp, came back, game is slow down for him. Really worked hard at this craft and it was good to see him having that success once again. We got to continue to find ways to get him the football, and we have some talented white outs.

We got to maximize those guys. If you were to take your film from the first month of last year to the first month of this year, three games in, where would you see the noticeable differences in your game? You think, Um, I think that just some the ability to read what the defense is doing and just having that calm mind and not not rushing. I think that was one of the things last year that was rushing everything and being this year just being calm and really

making it, making it, making making it happen. You were like trying to be fast instead of just letting your speed take over. I totally you stand not as a guy that was fast, right, I was a fullback, Eddie, give me a break here, But I totally understand what you're saying here. The name one big play that you've made this year, one big play that stands out more than any other. Oh, I think that that um, the one on the goal line. I mean we're that three

yard route. I mean it wasn't a great look. He he was type press and m and I stay calm. I got that look in practice. I knew what to do. Um, I didn't rush. I didn't Rushian, I didn't rushing. Run right out there, I stay calm the slope, slope plate in the and then bolted out, bolted out there. Man. I love that you said that Andy right there, because that really is That's something we all know about your speed.

We know you can run by, folks, We know you can you can run by, and we could throw the ball in fifty four yards later there it is, Andy's a eighty eight yards later, right, you could touch down r exactly. We all know that. But man, when you're running these short routes and you're showing that burst stand in in a short area, a small area, that burst like you did on that touchdown. That's a playmaker right there. Andy.

How does that feel? It feels great. It feels all all the harder work that I've done this all season, all the time I put in, um, it shows. I mean I worked so hard and I realized, you know, I don't think anyone works harder, and you know I got to make that happen on the field. Well, my favorite cash thanks for asking, would be two games ago. Not the fifty four yarder necessarily, but it was the quick slant. I loved it, and it was a little bit behind you and boom, you open up the hip

and there you are. You throw the hands out and take us through that play because that was a bullet. That's a tough grab de great difficulty for a receiver, isn't it. Yeah, when that's when do you say that? When he threw? When he threw and I look back at that ball, zombie quick um. But that's just that's just the calm, calmness in my mind. It didn't It didn't spook me like maybe last year it would have

spooked me to getting that ball coming out quick. But this year I've got to come in with a calm mine and everything slowed down, and I'm able to make players like that without even being in any panic whatsoever. When you on the on the jugs machine, you still work the jugs machine, don't you? And you can you take some of those fastballs just rep after rep? Yes? Yeah, absolutely, I did a lot of that. It's all season back home in Cleveland. Nice because that's why I think of Wolf.

That's why. Then on the quick slam like that Kyler with a velocity and he's got that arm, I think of a pass that's that quick and then boom. That's where that sort of training pays off. That's funny, boy, because when I think of Cleveland, I think of Westlake. I'm sorry, I just immediately can go to Westlake. Isn't that weird? You know exactly? Shaker rights Andy? Yeah, shake

out at Shaker. It's old school there, and you don't want to hear his story where what you're a rookie and you took the dog bone, you threw it into the dog pounds from the apollo. We don't want to talk about that problematic and he No, Larry Fitzgerald will do some talking about Andy when we come back. In the Big Read Rage presented by Satan Ford and Gilbert second and nine of the twenty nine two receivers right, Fitzgerald the left, Warner barking off the called playclock at three,

Kurt got the play away back to throw. Warner with a ton of time, throwing right side, fits open, caught at the five, heading for the pilot man. He is gonna be ruled, Yo, Cardinal Wharry Fitzgarrol do you believe it? And Warry Fitzgerald Frampton down their throw. Larry Fitzgerald, you are absolutely ridiculous. Oh my goodness, two thousand and eight Divisional round playoff win Cardinals at Carolina, advancing to the NFC Championship Game. With that victory, Wolf, did I say

two thousand and eight, Yes, two thousand and eight. That's back before you had your weight under control. You're a good two seventy plus back in those days. I'm curious I violate our rule no math. Andy Isabella is our guest here on the Big Red Rage. The last two games, six catches of buck fourteen, that's nineteen yards of catch, two touchdowns. But our question to you, Andy Isabella, is in two thousand and eight, if our math is correct, you would have been about twelve years old? What were

you doing at age twelve? About the time that Larry and that touchdown was made into a Fitz figurine because he was all angular at the pylon. And that might have been the first year I actually from the pad, actually play playing football. Um, so that's crazy to think about my first year playing. So how old would that have been, Andy, when you first put on the pads? Fifth grade? Fit this year my mom finally finally gave

in and lovely play. Oh, there's the there's that picture of you wearing a Fitz jersey where you would have been about ten, eleven, twelve years old. Maybe you know that picture I'm talking about, right? Oh? Yeah, yeah. Did you ever show that picture to Larry that you had his jersey and we're wearing his jersey as a ten year old kid? Yeah, he's seen him before and he was he was He showed me a picture or someone was showing it and he was just yes, and it's

like it was all good. Andy. I gotta tell you right now, I was twelve years old when Walter Payton first broke into the league, the great running back for the Chicago Bears. Do you know who Walter Payton is? Oh? Yeah, Okay, okay, Dad did the greatest running back. Andy. Don't let anyone

tell you otherwise. He was the greatest running back ever to play for all number of reasons that I can't mention right now, but I can tell you I was mesmerized with him, and I got the opportunity in nineteen eighty six, my first Pro Bowl to actually go out there. And I walked into that NFC locker room and they had put my locker right next to Walter Payton's eddy. I walked into that I just started hugging him. He had no idea, he had no idea who I was, Andy,

and I was just hugging him. And it was like Walter, Walter you Yeah, imagine being a twelve year old kid collecting all his cards and growing up and why he was ten years in the NFL when I finally saw him, And the lessons that he taught me, Andy were just off the chart. So I'll ask you this question, what

have you learned from Larry? If anything? I mean is everything from route route running to how how he carries himself and um, just a teammate he's been, I mean, he asked me sometimes he's like he's like, am I. He's like, yes, he asked me, Am I a good teammate. I'm like, it's like, what can I do or what can I do better to be a better teammate. I'm like, I said, yeah, I mean you go above and beyond? What what what a what a good teammate would do? Um?

Just from from being interactive with us to everyone, UM sitting down he looks with us, telling stories and just being a great, great team player. I mean, he's the best and he's awesome to work with. Is he ever like start stories where he's talking about Tiger Woods, a Barack Obama? You know, I mean, come on, he can do some serious name dropping. Do you get a lot

of that from Larry? He does? He does. He does here and there, and he'll do it like he'll do it kind of like under Like he'll he'll make no big deal about it and he'll be like play you played to play golf with him? What? Yeah? Right? So Andy? What about on the field? What about in between the white lines? Is there something a trick of the trade,

so to speak, that he has taught you? This thing is just keeping them that calm mind and and every everything's slow and framing the football and and just that's one of the big things catching the football, he says, is just being under control is one of the biggest things. And kept that into accounting. And I've been under control and kept that calm mine and I think he's made the game and made catching the football a lot easier for me. Well, I see your Instagram post where you

have the picture of you and Larry. He's got his arm around you. You guys are on the field in pads and it's learned from Greatness. You captioned the picture, and then you posted Kobe's five Rules, ten rules for Greatness and number five was learned from Greatness? So that where what what inspired you to post that? I actually,

as I found someone someone had sent me that. I saw it online Kobe's Kobe's ten Rules, and I got hung it up on my wall and I kind of pick kind of kind of pick one each and every day to kind of go by um and do. And when I when I saw that picture, I immediately thought of the Kobe Kobe sits rule would learn from greatness, and I was like, I gotta post this. I mean, I've been kind of found this, this Kobe thing Kobe's ruled every day, and so it was just meant to

be almost in other ruse rules. I enjoyed posting and hopefully motivated motivated someone else to maybe live by those ten rules and helped gun down the road well Wolf. Listen to Larry today as Parry Jim Almahandro about his friendship with Andy Isabella. We talk all the time, and I really him enjoyed getting to know Andy. He's like one of the when when you come from a family as large as him he's got He's got six brothers

and sisters. Um, he's a very close knick guy, so like once he feels like he's a part of the group. You know, he would literally take his shirt off for you, I mean, give you food, invites you by the house, cooked for you. I mean he's that type of person you know when you were a maid man with Larry. This is my observation. Andy, you can tell me if

this is true or false. When you when he stuffed you into the locker during your rookie season, we were all there and now apparently I was told later that you had a coming, that there was something you did to Larry. I don't know, prank or something like that. So then that was that was something that you had earned. Apparently, can you can you elaborate on that? I think he was he was messy. He always starts to his numbers.

He probably done so that I think I try to tackle him or something, and I know that was his way as the player, give me back, tackle me in the locker. Well Wolf, here's Larry on the Isabella work ethic in his admiration. There's nobody that works harder and tirelessly than than Andy. I mean, you look at his numbers from his you know, we wear these trackers every day.

There's nobody that has more yardage and you know the speed and output that he puts in and when you see him be able to make those plays, and you know, it's great to reward to guys who do it the right way, who prepare the right way, and he's one of those guys, and you know it makes you makes

you really happy as a friend to see that. How much exposure do you actually have to those next gen stats and those trackers for your practice as Andy, they'll they'll they'll they'll notify us to play like it's it's it's we got a high number. But it's mostly we mostly do it in camp. Those were one of the numbers are the highest. Okay, so they will check those out and then and then, um, just most of the camp,

but they definitely keep eyeing him. They they they'll they'll let the coaches know, but uh, we need a tone dating, a tone back or something. But it's kind of cool to see the stats here and there. I was actually looking at him last week, um, without training. So what's your top speed? Miles per hour? What's your top speed? I think it was somewhere somewhere in the twenty one. I don't try. I don't trust those things. I'm like, man, I could go fast. I'm like, I think's not recording me, right,

So talk to me about the wide receiver room. Like, you're a young guy. You're a young guy. You're coming into the National Football League, and I know this is year two, right, and this probably happens an awful lot I would imagine in your rookie season. But now, all of a sudden, you you're in a wide receiver room with Larry Fitzgerald and DeAndre Hopkins and Christian Kirk, some pretty talented dudes. Man, how often you get hit up from your high school buddies like, Hey, Andy, Andy, what

is it? What is it like actually be in the same room with DeAndre? Do you get these kind of questions? Oh yeah, all the time. They're like like especially when DeAndre got a tree to do ask, everyone was texting me like, do you hear you got DeAndre Hopkins. I'm like, I know, it's awesome. I can't I can't wait to meet them too. I can't wait to meet them. So it's fun. We got a great, great room, a great group of guys. I mean everyone everyone looks for each

other's success. Everyone wants each other to succeed. There's no there's no big egos. Everyone is works hard for each other. I mean I'm talking from from Larry DeAndre all we down to our practice squad guys, Um Drey and a J. I mean, it's just such a great group group of guys where everyone's encouraging each other. Everyone. You could learn literally anything from anyone in the room. Um And it's been awesome to work to play with these guys. Um And we definitely have a very special room. So I'm

definitely cherish that. How about DeAndre Hopkins and yards after catch? How about his ability just to run with it after he catches it. Oh, it's this, That's that's unbelievable. I mean, I'm playing my mom my mom on my mom. She was like, DeAndre Hopkins unbelievable. I know. I guess I get to watch it clothes. That's awesome. Hey, when you get mom weighing in on DeAndre Hopkins, that's the ultimate seal of approval, right there, you know, yeah, right there?

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It is a big red rage presented by Santan forty and Gilbert with Andy Isabella two receivers to the left of Kyler Murray, who's in shotgun two tight ends to the right, snap to Murray, drops back, the throw has time, fires a deep ball middle of the field. Isabella White open cut of the thirty to the twenty five and tackle that the twenty three yard line boy. That thing traveled about forty five yards on a line drive by Kyler Murray to Andy Isabella. Andy Isabella running down the

middle of the field by everybody else. That four three one on display for everybody here. Dave Pash instantly get excited a few seconds into that play call because he realizes he was looking left to right. He's like, whoa, Andy Isabella is way behind the secondary And that was a fifty four yard grab. A couple of weeks ago against Washington. We're wrapping up with Andy Isabella, our special guest and the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford

in Gilbert. And when we see a play like that, Andy, how many reps have been put in over the last two years? You and Kyler that chemistry where he's able to recognize and boom, react and fire you the ball. There's a lot that goes into that over more than a year, isn't it? Absolutely? I Mean, we priced that play in camp to all all the first week and um a whole the second week, and um, it was funny. He actually overthrew me um in practice um on the friday before that game, and um he did it twice

to play. We ran it back to back and they overthrew a overthrew me two times in a row, and I was like, then, coach is gonna take this one out. But he left it in there and it ended up ended up hitting and it was it was kind of funny to laugh at. We were all like, and we should he should open throw me more. In practice, he talked to us a little bit about why that play is so important to you in your development. Well, you know, I mean, you know, um, you know, I don't get

many opportunities right now. I mean, I'm working to get opportunities, and that was like one of my one of the big opportunities that I was going to have this year. Um, each so they get that in the game, I mean, you got you got to execute. I mean, um, let's all this thing that Tom Brady has said as a young guy, you know, you ever know when your next opportunity is going to be. So when you get that opportunity, you got to you gotta act like it's your laugh opportunity.

And some of those that's that's what I've been doing. Some of those DB's going back up a little as well, and right conn happen, give you a little room maybe to ruminate and use that space. Oh yeah, when do you know that you have a DV When do you know that all this guy's toast because I'm about to hit the turbo boost. I'm going to hit the nitrous

button and I'm gone. Do you you know that over the course of a route, at some point, Oh yeah, you know, when they're kind of just sitting there and they're they're kind of just they don't really know what to do. And when when the dB looks kind of like I'm not sure, you know, that's when you know you got them. Do we overthink this? Do we overthink this? Or are you a believer in chemistry? No? Absolutely, I mean you gotta, you gotta have kind of showing a

great example. I mean, um my, my, my college. And in college we had just route where I could take it on a high angle or take it on a low angle, and we had missed it um in this one game and I went low and the quarterback do it high. And then we had it back in Georgia. This time I took it high and he knew what I was doing because of that dB was playing low and he threw it high and he got it to

on me that it's that chemistry is huge. Um, you gotta you gotta know what quarterback I know what you're doing, and you gotta and you gotta be in that spot. But the quarterback knows you're going to be in. That's interesting, Andy Isabella, our guests, I know what Wolf does overstate though nicknames and Wolf, I'm not even sure I'm going to set up something else from DJ Humphrey's Do you or do you not want to share your nickname for Andy Isabella Fanzy Is that what you're saying? Yes, okay,

of course, then yes. Did we determine, by the way, whose nickname was better or in this case worse, because because Andy I had because in honor of you and your speed and the Tyreek Hills and all the perpetual motion and always in the Jets sweeps and all that kind of stuff, I went with eye Andy instead of eye Candy. I went with Iye Andy. So you don't say that Andy, that's come on? Is he? I'd call him is he Paul. I wouldn't walk around like is he a uh clip coach clip called me Ai? I

like that one to anything else. Any other nicknames you've heard out in the field from your teammates. By chance, I got r Randy stuff going around? Randy? Why why do they call you Randy? Well wolf? Why don't you listen to it here real quick, because we have a clip DJ Humphreys fired at practice from Cardinals flight plant. There you go, Randy, Oh, there you go, Randy, Randy. There you go, Randy, Randy, Brandy going on? We call him Randy, We call and the Della Randy. That's his

name for the whole Randy is Adela. That's his name. I don't know why we call him that. That's his name. DJ HP has a smile on his face. He pulls it off. You know. That was a montage from practices and games obviously, But wow, what is behind Randy? I think that's there must be my my author, my author ego or something that only comes out certain when when I get the line hyped up. So these guys are

just they walk around, they call you Randy. Is it just the offensive line or is this has this caught on with the locker room get caught onto a couple of the special teams guys? Um, hey, Andy, talk you know what, honestly, talk a little bit about that right there? Special teams because you're not on as many now, right, Yeah, I mean he I mean I'm kind of a guy where like if they need someone, hey, that that's Andy.

You're going in UM And you know, I mean I've when I've been out there, I've been able to make plays. And I think this special teams coach trust me and I can get more building more trust with him, and I think he uses me on that guy guy goes down. If he needs a guy, he knows he could rely on me to say any any spot he needs to be fallable. What about punt returns though? How comfortable are you with the punt returns or is it still daunting

to a certain degree. I mean we're working at We work at a ton of practice this week, so I'm competent. If he puts me back there this week, then it's just gonna be a great week. I'm excited to catch one and return one. UM, So we're working on that. It says so much about you Andy as a football player. The fact that he can put you out on the field and cover a kick. We're not just talking about punt return man, We're talking about covering a kick says a lot about you as a football player. I will

tie one. Ris Washington. Allen was close over over ended. But that's one of my goals to have a couple of tackles this year to kick off for punt. So hopefully you get the shot to get out there and get one. That's awesome. Well, I'll tell you what. I hope the game goes as well as this interview. We really enjoyed it. We appreciate it. Andy, Randy aizy I, Andy, you know all the above. We appreciated the time. Andy. Congratulations, Andy, thank you very much. Okay, brother, God bless you man.

I'm telling him that there's a football player. Oh yeah, yeah, and he and he and he says Cardinals have had

a good week of practice. Dot dot dot. We'll wrap this up on the Big Red Raid presented by Satan Ford in Gilbert Stafford takes the shotgun staff three step drops, looks right in trouble, and he sacked back at the twenty yard line, dragged down by Jordan Phillips, grab Matthew Stafford and basically put him into the crock pot belly Buddy tack to throwo Stafford hit by the former Lion Devon Kennard and sacked Kenard with the takedown of Stafford.

Great prop back Stafford and Trouble wrapped up at sack by Tory Peters, who was untouched, was all over Stafford as soon as he went back to pass twice Wall I'm on eleven sacks for the Cardinals defense through three games by seven different players. They've had two four sack games in a row. And Chandler Jones, so you figure is gonna have a breakout game at some point only

has one. So Ron Wiefley, if if you are the Carolina Panthers and you're thinking all stopping the Cardinals pass rush is as easy as Chippy number fifty five, the elite pass rusher, mister nineteen sacks. Now, hang on, not quite that simple anymore, is it? No, it's not, Paull.

The defense has done a great job, and it starts to advance Joseph right now, knowing that they've got Chandler Jones, Knowing that Chandler Jones is going to dictate an awful lot of protections offensively right, and you can kind of determine, Paul what those protections might be, right, And because of that, you can predict and when you can predict now, all of a sudden, Pauly, that makes you much more dangerous

on the defensive side of the ball. When you can protect, you can predict excuse me, what that protection is going to be now, Paul, everybody else gets involved, and that's really what's happening right now with this defense, you know, and Cliff Kingsbury told us it's weekly TV show game Plan that all the attention towards Chandler has opened up things for other guys. Advanced Joseph even So said today, you know what, we gotta figure out a way to

free him up a little bit. He's getting chipped constantly, so we'll see if there might be something a little different in the game plan this week to free up number fifty five. We'll see about that. Now, what we are going to see are some backups as safety because Buda Baker had the thumb surgery this week. We know Jalen Thompsonari and I are Chris Banjoe has been banged up as well, so you're gonna see. Well, we'll let

Vance Joseph explain exactly who it's for us. The safety's DT and Curtis Riley's going to be our two starters. We feel good about that. You know, we have certain packages where we can put other guys at similar positions, but right now we feel very comfortable with those two guys who've been in camp with us, and if have running this system for DT for two years and for Curtis for a month. Now, I think we're in good shape at safety. Now. They signed t J. Ward, but

he's on the practice squad. Too soon, too much, too soon, says Vance Joseph. There, Isaiah Simmons doesn't sound well. At least he's not going to start at safety, according to Vans Joseph. He says he feels good. How do you feel with a fourth and fifth string or as you're starting safety? Yeah, that's a tough proposition right there, Polly, But what else are you going to do? I do like the fact that Riley has experienced playing that it's not some young guy that is out there making his way.

Deontay Thompson is a young guy that is trying to do that right now. But the question with Isaiah Simmons, Polly, that is so important how they proceed on this. You know what I want to see them do. I want to see him leave him right there? Where he is right now, the week side inside linebacker. Let him learn the position, learn what it is that he's got to do. Let him develop under those auspices, Polly, and then all of a sudden when he masters as you can start

moving him around. But there is a part of me as I listen, There is a part of me as I listened to Vans Joe so that thinks, here it comes. He's gonna be playing safety, isn't he? It's only because once again you can't. Can you really believe what these coaches are telling the opponent coming up? Paul, No, you can. And remember what Cliff Kingsbury said about Isaiah Simmons. I know Dances is trying to kind of spoon and feed

it here and there to not overload him. But he's done a nice chap so far picking things up, and we just had to keep him coming without the offseason particularly and made it tough on him. But he's made big strides recently and we continue to try and get him more incorporated in the defense. If you want your best eleven, your most athletic eleven out there, then Isaiah Simmons is part of that group. It's just where and how in what capacity you know to me? And I

know he played all over the field for Clemson. He played over one hundred snaps of five different positions, but he would seem to be a fairly natural and somewhat experienced box safety based on his college career, and put him in center field. But yeah, no, I know, Polly, I mean Jamal Adams, right, Yeah, that's what you're thinking of right now, Chancellor. Yes, yeah, but you're gonna have

to change. What you'd have to do is go ahead, and you know what, You're gonna change your defense as well, Polly, because that means you're probably gonna play some cover three where you can actually have eight guys down in the box and you can still pull off that coverage. You're

gonna play some man free a lot more. And that's what Vance Joseph does, like to play a lot of man free where you can have that free safety in the middle of the field, you can have man across the board, you can play eight guys in the box out of that coverage, robber coverage you can actually play which is man free with a lurker down low. So there's a lot of options right there. And I could see that I could see Isaiah Simmons and that kind

of role. But once again I'm hoping that they leave him at week side inside linebacker and let them learn one position and then go from there. Other headlines today, DeAndre Hopkins did not practice for the second straight day with that ankle. Devon Kannard did not practice for the second straight day with a calf injury. So we'll see exactly what that means on game day. Now we know DeAndre Hopkins who's leading the NFL and catches and receiving

yards and first down catches. We know that he is very capable well right a point on game day without a week of practice, no doubt about it. I just want to say this because we noticed that here in Command and Control, Bear noticed that the confidence in Andy's voice is amazing. This kid is getting ready to explode. And he said it on the quick slant that he caught against a year ago. He said, a year ago, that would have spooked me, that ball getting on me

that quick and being behind me. This year he makes the catch. You can hear it in his voice, the confidence growing. Six graps for one hundred and fourteen yards last two weeks. We'll see what happens Sunday in Carolina for Jim I'm a hundred on Cody Fincher, on Paul calBC, Ron Wolfley. This than the Big Red Rage presented by Santanford in Gilbert Number one, Tyler, You've been listening to the Big Red Rage presented by Santanford in Gilbert, ard

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