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Our first in person edition of The Big Red Rage, all presented by santan Ford and Gilbert in over a year. Think about that? Ron, Woefully, you are looking at real faces here at four Peaks Brewing Company and tempe What a beautiful thing that is? Polly makes you want to kill a hamburger too? Do you have one? Paul? Do you have maybe a cheeseburger. So now when you say rise up Red Sea, there is an actual Red Sea. Its man, it's so good to be here, no doubt
about it. The Red Sea out in force and we are definitely putting the big into the Big Red Rage tonight. Speaking of faces, someone we all recognize and is a little bit of a setup. It was twenty seventeen and the Cardinals made a moving round two, made a move to the top around two, and we're all wondering, well, why, what exactly is going on? And the man they drafted is with us here tonight and we've seen exactly why. Because he's been a difference maker. He's been a playmaker.
He's been a two time first team All Pro, a three time Pro bowler in four years. In the last two years he has led all dbs in total and solo tackles. He is Buddha Baker. Everyone nice, nice man. Do you do you feel as good as you look right now? You look out standing? Bodhis that you guys too, Man, you guys too. I do feel good. I feel awesome. I'm excited, you know, just to see this. Twenty twenty one first first schedule Man I'm definitely excited for Shore.
So of course, Buda, for every player, what's in a number, Everything is in a number, right, and you change numbers? Of course, number thirty two, PAULI, you're gonna hold it up on you right here, number thirty two to now number three, Buddha, can you tell us? Yes, there it is a round of applause for number three. Don't figure? Can you tell us why, bud Why did you do that? Man?
You know, I've been thirty two my whole life, little league, you know, middle school, high school, going to the college, thirty two, you know NFL, you know, as as you guys you know, knew. My first couple of years, a great Tyron Matthew was number thirty two, one of the guys that you know, I look up to, very great player. And then you know, once he left, you know, I kind of waited another year. Then that next year I
tried to get my number back in. It was definitely exciting, definitely felt great, and then going into that fourth year was definitely also exciting. Great All Pro honors, all that type stuff. It was all cool, but you know, once they allowed the single digits, I was like, man, I gotta go to single digits. I gotta do something new, you know, my own identity, my own you know legacy. It's gonna be in that number three. So I'm definitely excited for sure. Well, he's gonna put his autograph on
this jersey. So there will be one attend here, one Cardinals fan, lucky fan, who will win this by the end of the night. Will this be the first ever officially autographed Brudebaker number three jersey? Yeah? First we need like a number on this, you know, yeah, exactly. So, Hey, I've not signed any signatures. This will be the only one. Well, you know, Wolf Snowsey. He wants to know how many old jerseys did you have to buy out? What kind
of check did you have to write? He wanted to ask you the TMZ question, you know, I mean, it would have cost you exactly to make this move, man, was it was a good, good, good piece of amount. Don't look at Paul question. Just put that put a five onto that three and that's how much it was. Right, Let's see you sign up a truck driver here. You know, it's an investment in your marketing future. Okay, you mentioned that the schedule we see you on here. We barely
recognize you wearing the number three. We got to get used to us. Let's talk about the first installment of the schedule of first four games, by the way, the preseason out of the gates on the cardinal schedule, Dallas and Casey at home at New Orleans. Remember three preseason games because the seventeen game regular season. Wolf's pumping his fist on that one. I'm with you, you guys open at Tennessee. Give me a few thoughts and going against
Ryan Tannehill, Derek Henry, Yeah, exactly, few thoughts. One thought is Derek Henry. You know, uh played against my rookie year, but you know they you know, it wasn't used as much. But now seeing him in Tennessee, see what he's doing is definitely special and definitely gonna be excited to tackle him.
So that's a physical team right there, kind of like Minnesota in week number two, your first home game of course, but the Minnesota Vikings liked to pound it too, boat up, Yeah, exactly, great run game as well, Dalvin Cook got him, got him cooking over there, and definitely excited to play against them as well. The great P two Nations. He's gonna come back already. Hey man, you know Pat as well as anyone. How fired up is Pat pe gonna be for Week two back in the ac Oh? Yeah, he
gonna be fired up. He will. He will definitely be fired up. And uh hopefully he's my dog and all I love you P two, but hopefully he doesn't have a good day that game. All right. Now, about going against the rookie quarterback this this could be the first of three rookie quarterbacks. You go against Trey Lance justin fields maybe, but you know you're gonna be going against Trevor Lawrence in week three. Yeah, that's Sunshine. That's what
he reminds me of. Sunshine. So, uh, definitely a guy coming from Clemson who's definitely played great football over there. It's definitely gonna be exciting to play against the rook So then you travel in week number four, you travel to LA to play the Rams with Matthew Stafford as their quarterback. How do you expect that offense to look to you? Do you expect it to look different? Oh? Man, I kind of honestly and definitely yeah, They're definitely a
run boot team. But with Matthew Stafford, I think he's gonna put a whole another, you know, whole another specialtiated to the Rams. So he's definitely a great quarterback. And uh, you know he he disokated my finger with the last game, so you know, he throws the ball very fast, very hard, great arm. Definitely gonna be excited to go after him. Rich One, boodh one. Got it my left one, my left left index finger. Yeah, this one right, Okay, at the time, I already had the thumb, so yeah, it
went all the way back. It was a third, third and long, so thankfully we had to get off the field right there, so I was definitely I was able to get it, you know, put back to play former. Okay, we want to know the details of you still have a cast on one of those hands when you made your first career pick at Dallas, Right, yeah, I did. I did first career. People said I don't have hands, but I just I feel like I don't get much opportunities.
I definitely think I have hands, And you know, that first pick definitely showed you a little bit about my hands. With that cast, it was it was a big whole thing. So if you ever try to use something without your thumb, it's definitely hard. So Buddha, on these first four games, is there one that stands out to you? Is there one that you say, Man, these first four games right here,
what's the one game that might stand out to you? Oh? Man, I'm a very I'm a guy who believes in week one, take it one day at a time, one week at a time. So for me, would definitely be Tennessee in Tennessee ten a in game as you guys see, and yeah, out to be Week one. So the one I'm looking forward to the most is definitely Week one, and that's gonna be the fur is gonna fly. I think that is going to be maybe the most physical game up
those first four games right there. It's not only the fact that the Tennessee Titans run the ball so well, it's also the fact that I think we're gonna try to attack them and they're rushing defense as well. I think they're gonna try to run the ball in between the tackles against the Titans because they struggled with that well. And we know the objective of Steve Kaine building this team in the offseason, physicality has been job one. Booty.
I know you've heard that and he's proved that based on the guys he's signed and the guys he's brought in and the guys he's drafted. That seems to be a major focus this offseason. You guys are gonna be tested right out of the game in that regard, aren't you. Yeah, exactly, like you said, great running back in Dereck Henry, He's a great running back, huge, big guy who who's not
afraid to hit the whole. And then like you said with Tannehill, he got he got guys on the outside who can you know, run the great over routes and the post routes and the and the slant routes that get him. You know those yack yards, so definitely. And you know what single game tickets are on sale right now. You go to zy Cardinals dot com, slash game ticks. That's asy Cardinals dot com, slash gme t i X, that's game t i X, and that's your website, and they're on sale right What do you look for when
you look at a schedule when it comes out? Is there anything in particular you look at first? A wolf mentioned by you obviously want to know where that stacks up. Is there anything else in terms of rivalries or weather. What do you glance at first? Yeah, you know, I glanced at the end of the year. Uh, you know the away games that we have, So right here is these black are away games for Chicago week thirteen. I
look at that. That's gonna be a cold game. So I'm getting ready for that mentally, But honestly, like I said, one week at a time, I'm just only thinking about the team at hand. So right now, first game of the season is going to be the Tennessee Titans. I used to hate the bye boat. I did. I don't want to get into the reasons why I don't. I'm holding you know. I don't want to get into the reasons why the bye I couldn't stand it. But the bye week is the twelfth week of the season. Do
you like that? Do you like where the bye week is? I mean me, I definitely like it. You know, if anybody who knows me and who's a fan of me. My girlfriend is actually pregnant, so her due date is actually November twenty fifth to November twenty eight, So that's so we've gotta win her. Hopefully it's that bye week, you know, disappear for a few days. Help the lady. Did you call Roger Goodell and say, you know what, hey,
rog Man, n me out with this bye week? I wish I did, but I didn't, So thank you, thank you. I think you do. So. I think it's kind of cool though, because again in the twelfth week, then you have six games after that. So it's kind of cool that it's later. It's later in the year, it's later in November. What is it the twenty eighth, right, that's where it actually falls. Thanksgivember twenty eight, and then you got six games after that. To me, that's a playoff
run right there. Yeah, you get that by and then here we go. Yeah, I mean I understand for sure. I'm definitely excited. I'm not going to talk playoffs. I'm not gonna that's good. I love that. But so yeah, I see the fat old guy can talk playoffs. You can't. You're right about the hotel. That's good one. That's well
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with a head dropped down by Baker. At the thirty five hard line, food a Baker on the safety blitz sup gets hit hand slammed to the ground by Boodha Baker like a torpedo. He came flying into the backfield over the middle, picked off, intercepted by Baker at the fifteen gets up in round, passed near side, picked off by Baker. Pick the five running up to the ten of the twenty fit chases on booted Baker redded jumped in ticks one a day, Boodhe Baker a prime time.
It was Buddha Baker time last year. Wolf You remember Umber against Seattle the ot win at home right, and he had Sunday night football and Buddha Bicker against his hometown team. Fourteen tackles, He had the pick, he had the tackle for loss, he had a past defense, and then you had at Dallas a Monday night football. He had seven tackles, had a sack at pick number one. I mean, think of I mean too many stats the list right there in primetime you were at your best.
What is it about the national TV slot? Perhaps it gets the best audio? Oh man, I don't know. Honestly, That's been how I been since I was young, high school, college. Every every time the lights are on in those national stage games, I seem to do I feel like what I always do. But a lot of people see, you know, on national TV. So it's definitely, uh, definitely something that I want to continue to do for sure. Buddha, What is your demeanor before a game? Because I just heard
the crazy laugh there? You couldn't you let the crazy laugh out right there? Is? That's kind of who you are before you start the games. Do you let yourself tap in to that side of you? Yeah? I do?
I do? You know? Early on, you know, driving to the stadium or on the bus going to wherever stadium we're going, I usually listened to like our R and B music, you know, cool music, just chilling, lovey devy chill music, and just you know, let my emotions settle and just you know, hang out and chill and then once we once we start the pregame, that's when I listened to my you know, my rap music or heavy,
heavy tempo music. And then we go back in and once I come out, you know, that's where my character comes out. So the excitement, passion's just excitement for the game, because when you've been miked up, you've had a lot of great moments. There's been a lot of mean whether it's you reacting or talking or pumping other guys up. So look, let's take a look at the next eight games in the Cardinal schedule and by the way, three primetime games. So the years on the Cardinals this year,
including the game home against Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. Least, we think it's gonna be Aaron Rodgers Thursday Night Football. But it all begins that second set of four, the Niners at home and at Cleveland against Houston. Just tell me about that Niners matchup and the difference between maybe going against the Jimmy g or the rookie Trey Lance perhaps, Yeah, which one that would be? Week five? Week five? Yep, right there, man, you know, I think it's gonna be
Jimmy Garoppolo. Uh, you know, let the young guy kind of see a little bit, just like how the Chiefs did with Patrick Mahones. But if it's a young guy, he's definitely one of those guys who can throw, who can run. He you know, puts a whole another aspect to the to the forty nine ers with the QB run games. You guys saw, you know last year when they use their backups, they kind of did a little bit more QB run games. So with this new with this new QB, I definitely feel like they're gonna utilize
him in the run game. And he's a guy that you know, he doesn't turn down hits, so hopefully they they teach him that he needs to slide. But he's he's a big guy, fast um can throw the ball, and I'll definitely be excited to see him hopefully next year. So after San Francisco at home, you travel to Cleveland. All the Cleveland Browns right to add Cleveland in an afternoon start. That's gonna be a four or five afternoon start right there. Talk about Baker Mayfield. Who who would
you rather sick Jimmy j or Baker Mayfield? Man? Both of them? Both of them. They're both purity. Yeah, they're both secks in the in the in the books. So yeah, Baker Mayfield, a guy who's definitely coming out of Oklahoma never being a number one played, a guy who's definitely has showed up and showed who Baker Mayfield can be. In that last game they had last year, he was throwing some dimes and um, he's a great qbad. I'm
definitely excited to go against him too. I've never played in Cleveland, so you know, hopefully that's indoor, right, so that'll be cool. Actually it's the outdoor. Yeah, thank goodness, it's mid October. I actually played there two years ninety two, ninety three. Okay, but before I was born. Ye, your brutal GST, I'll say wolf by saying you know what. Honestly, guys, I'm surprised that they didn't put that in primetime, Baker
against Kyler. Yeah, Cleveland coming off a playoff against the Steelers. Honestly, I was kind of surprised. I was one surprise in this thing for me. And then you're gonna have Houston at home, and of course you got J. J. Watt, you got d Hop going against their former team. I mean, how I amped up? Do you think those guys will be? Yeah, those guys would definitely be amped up and excited for two. And then of course Thursday night you have the green
Bay Packers at home. Oh my goodness, the the media that is swirling around the green Bay Packers right now, and Aaron Rodgers and whether or not Aaron Rodgers is going to be the quarterback here? Would you like to weigh in on that at all? So whether or not Aaron Rodgers is going to be the quarterback because I think he Yeah, it's just no way. I definitely believe he is as well. He's Aaron Rodgers, and he's one of those guys that you just can't trade him. You
can't trade him. I'm sorry, you just can't do it. If you know, wants to uh not be there and you know, play like Adam Sandler and stop the yard, then all right, maybe you might have to trade him. But other than that, and then you cannot trade Aaron Rodgers. That's like that's like trading uh Russell Wilson from the Seahawks, which everybody knew that wasn't gonna happen. What do you do to get ready for a quarterback of that caliber. Does it come down what is the key? Does it
come down to film work? Is there something else you have to match with with a guy like that who's not only beating you with his rocket arm in the accuracy, but with his mind and his experience. I mean, what do you do going against a guy like that? Yeah, you gotta watch a lot of film you know. Our second year we actually played him and with Steve Wilkes over in Green Yes, Yeah, that was cold game. We got that w so um with Aaron Rodgers. You definitely
have to watch a lot of film. Um during the game, you got to try and get whatever they're trying to do. It's it's a matchup league. They're gonna try and you know, see whatever matchup that we have that they have and displayed that matchup, so you know, whatever that is, they're usually gonna find it within the first fifteen plays and
then you go from there. Hey, the best seats the best prices during the Cardinals season ticket priority list today and get both at Hazy Cardinals dot com slash priority list. In fact, that game was Steve Wilkes. You got Mike McCarthy fired. He was fired about two hours after that, Cardinals win at Green Bay. So then wolf from there. Week nine at the Niners. Okay, we talked about the Niners a little bit. How about Week ten home against Carolina?
What do you think of when you think of Carolina, especially now with Sam Darnold at quarterback, Matt Rule once again, your second straight you're playing in the new Carolina coach. Yeah, I mean, of course you missed that game last year, FOODA last year. You don't want to see that again. I'll just leave it at that. So Christian McCaffrey will be back and you'll be back in that one. So okay, let's go to at Seattle. We got to save some
time for this anyway, because it's your hometown. Come on, now, be honest. You always look for where the at Seattle game is, right? Oh? Yeah, for sure. I love playing against Seattle, playing against the hometown team. Train with a lot of guys over in Seattle, so definitely love to
talk to them during a game. And you know, playing at home against fellow fans, fellow you know, you Dub fans, Bellevue High School fans, It's definitely fun to go against them because you know, after the game is definitely fun getting dubs and them talking. Russell was criticizing the front office a little bit and the coaching staff and talking about that offensive line and maybe getting some better players in front of him to help protect him a little
bit more here. Do you think he's got a little bit of work to actually do inside that Seahawk locker room? Buddha man, I mean, I cannot control the Seahawk locker room, so I let the Seahawks be the Seahawks, And I don't really care about them. I just, um, you know, hopefully they do whatever they they gotta do. But at the end of the day, I'm a cardinal, so uh yeah, So I got it. It was so weird. All twenty
twenty was strange. But to be in Seattle and have no fans, I mean, I can't believe I'm about to say this. I almost missed the twelves, almost missed the twelves, you know, but they fired you guys up, don't they. That venue, in that noise level, you guys, it just seems like you're guaranteed to play a good game just because it's you against the world in that venue. Yeah, that's how it feels. It's definitely exciting, especially coming out
that locker room and that Seahawks Heckler always cocked. I'm saying, whatever, it's definitely fun, you know, going against them in their hometown for do you know, was it two years ago he ripped my backpack? He said, uh, he said, my nine year old daughter has that backpack. He ripped me. The guy has heay ever had a sign at your expenses? He said, anything the Heckler guy about you. No sign in my expense. But he called me little guy one time two years ago was and uh called me a
little guy before that game. In that game, I kind of I think I injured like two or three of the running backs that game and we got the w and uh after the game was very cool of him. He did. He definitely accepted the loss, and he shook hands and well he calls Paul. Okay, So after the buy, we've all already talked a little bit about the buy. Right there, buddy, you're at Chicago, your thoughts. I'm being in Chicago, the Windy City, playing the Bears the Windy City.
Like he said, it's gonna be a grinded out game. I feel like it's definitely gonna be some type of weather rain, sleet, snow, something those that's gonna be a game where we're gonna have to grind it out. Okay, with that snow from the Sattle Seattle, you know what, that's a warm rain ball Chicago, right man. No, I'm definitely I'm cool with the rain. I'm cool with the snow anything. You know. The Cardinals assistants definitely have everything taken care of on the field. On the sideline, it's
it's hot. I mean, if you saw us on a sideline where it feels like we're in Arizona. On the sideline, they got all types of machines that give you heat. And you know, you're only cold once you get into game. And by that time, your mentals already messed up. You're not coold, you just don't feel anything. So it's definitely that's a game where we're definitely gonna have to grind out.
For sure. Well there's another game where you're likely I'm guessing at that point by week thirteen to see justin fields. Oh yeah, you know. I mean, it's amazing the athleticism of these quarterbacks. Remember a couple of years ago, Kyler Murray showed up we called them the future of football, and slowly but surely it has been trending in that direction. So get more into this schedule once again. The best seats,
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from Four Peaks Brewing Company in Tempe. JJ Watt has just tweeted that he has signed with the Arizona Cardinals. Whoa JJ Watt signing with the Arizona Cardinals. That came out of nowhere? So this is it? Is it? Okay? Let's go. I love the fit a massive deal for really one of the more up and coming teams in the NFL. JJ Watt coming to the NFC West. It's just gets better and better and better. That division is stacked. Oh my gosh, that's an outstanding son. The Cardinal's point
of view, this piece is the difference. Excited for Arizona Cardinals fans. Look at Steve kNN god is arrested, pushing buckets, make me call let's go day. J Watts pop, he does this little Dan unmistakable Pat mcabee show right there, and some of the national media reaction when the Arizona Cardinals started the offseason by signing wait for it, Jay Jay Watt and then just kept building the defense from there. We just heard the reaction on the Big Red Rage
presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford here at Four Peaks Brewing Company in Tempe. Now, let's get the reaction to the additions of the defense to Buddha Baker right, Pro Bowl safety, what'd you think as Steve Kin made some of these moves start with JJ Watt, Yeah, jj Watt, I was definitely excited for that, getting Chandler
Jones back as well, really good friend of mine. But JJ Watt, a guy who's been doing it for a very long time and a guy who's um definitely feels a lot of excitement about coming on to the team, and um wants to do everything that he can to help the team. You know, has talked to guys, already texted guys and seeing how guys are doing. You know, he's asked me about guys and players, uh, you know, what they like to do, what they don't like to do.
So he's definitely invested. And he's a great, you know, great player, and to see him and Chandler on opposite sides is definitely gonna hopefully get get offenses in some trouble for sure, Bruda, what is going to be the biggest adjustment for saving Collins coming in as a rookie and how can you help him if at all? I think the biggest challenge he'll probably get is the speed of the speed of the game calling. You know, guy, he's like that. He's seen. He's huge, very fast. He
thinks of hisself as a Brian r Lacker. So you know, I've definitely seen you know, a couple of highlights of him and it looks like a guy who can shoot the gap and uh, you know, play man plays his own do the things that we want him to do on a defense. So I definitely think he's gonna He's gonna be well in this league for sure. Malcolm Butler was signed a veteran corner head over under tackles as Robert Alfred. I know, you love the two training camps
Robert Alfred had before he got hurt. So you know, boom, if he's healthy, you know he's gonna compete for playing time if not a starting gig. And then you have the two rookie corners that were drafted by the Arizona Cardinals. When you see some of the athleticism, for example, on the round four pick out of Florida Marco Wilson six foot even, he ran a four to three four. He's got a forty three and a half vertical and twenty six reps on the bench. He started as a true
freshman in the SEC at corner. I mean there's some potential there. And then a guy like Tay Allen who sat out last year for family reasons, but guy with size and speed is six one eighty six and uh, you know, a supreme confidence. He's already called himself gowin Island. So when you have those two rookie corners, how are you gonna be able to mentor those guys to some degree. Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely excited to see what those guys
can do. First and foremost, we're gonna see him on the field and you know, helped him out whatever however we can. But for me being a dB, being a safety, I'm definitely gonna have to give him the calls, help him out whatever they need help with and have a lot of we have a lot of faith in g Money, the corners coach over there, and uh, you know, even guys like Byron who is going to help the young guys for sure, And I'm excited to see what these guys can do for sure. You know, there's the rookie
safety James Wiggins real quick. He said the other day that he's gonna be starstruck when he sees you in person, that this is the first maybe rookie was gonna show up who spent his college career watching your film Buddha. So that's gonna be a little different, Hugh, Yeah, definitely be different for sure. Are you gonna honestly yeah, rookie, how do you rookies? I'm a nice guy, you know, I'm guys that you know, the rookie hazing and get my pads and uh, you know, get what you get,
the snacks and all that type of stuff. But um, yeah, you know I'm one of those guys. You know, I wasn't treated that way. I only had to get uh you know, food for the guys on the way games. So that was rough, sometimes almost missing the plane. But other than that, you know, these these guys will be all right, No, wait, what was Tyron Matthews order? What Tyrn Man? You want me to order everything out the book? Like I feel like they wanted me to get be
late to the plane. Honestly, now, I'm just messing with you. They all they I think I got them. What was it? Popo those few times? Popeyes a few times? Uh yeah, all different types of food. Yeah, even if they didn't need it, they'd order it, I know. All right, let's go to the last five games of the schedule. You're gonna have the Rams that's gonna be Monday night football,
and then you're gonna go to Detroit. You're gonna get the home game on Sunday, Chris Well on Saturday Christmas Day against the Colts, and then at Dallas and then Seattle. So those last five games here starting there, what pops out to you when you look at some of those matchups. I mean, La Rams like always team who you know we haven't beat, and a team that we're definitely excited they're going to be playing against in our division, a team we're gonna have to beat if we want to
go to where we want to go to. You see the Colts game, of course, never played against the Colts Dallas. Is this Dallas in Dallas at Dallas? Okay, that'll be That'll be a fun game January second. That'll be a fun game. Dallas fans are always crazy, as you guys know. And of course that last week against the Seahawks. Really that last week against the Seahawks is gonna be fun. You know. I believe that both teams are gonna be
good and we'll see what happens in week eighteen. Yeah, before we talk a little bit more about that, what about the Rams game on Monday Night? Do you like playing on Monday night? Bud? I like, you know, I like all national televised games. I'm not gonna complain the Monday night games. You know, you're sore for a couple of days, and you know you gotta get back going for that same week on Sunday. So those those games
are definitely fun while it's happening. But the next day it's Tuesday, and you gotta be ready for Sunday games. So yeah, yeah, no doubt about that. And then you'll you're gonna know the Lions quarterback Jared Goff right, so the former ram and then you're gonna have Carson Wentz against and the Colts. And then yeah, that trip to Dallas. What is it about playing the Cowboys that get guys amped up? And I know there's a Texas connection obviously
with Kyler and Cliff Kingsbury and all that. And then there's the stadium, right, just has that fuel, doesn't it? Exactly? This? I feel like that stadium is just you know, has that feel text football. You know, people are crazy about their Texas football, um, and just going against the Americans team and the Dallas Cowboys, it's definitely fun to go
against them. For sure. The star is maddening too. Just looking at the star, it makes you want to hit the star, no doubt about what what about playing on Christmas Day? How do you feel about that? Oh? Man? I mean never played a Christmas game. That would be fun, That would be a fun game. Um excited. That'll be a game that you know, a lot of fans will be able to see. Christmas Day kids will get to wake up, open the presence and watch Cardinal football games.
So that will definitely be fun. Hey, you're gonna be a dad on Christmas Day? Yeah, exactly, it'll be awesome too. That'll be really cool that. I mean, at least it's a later game on on Christmas Day, so you know my birthdays. Oh, never mind, I was looking at week eighteen January. You know you can flex now, you can flex games after week twelve is the rule this year.
I would be shocked. Dallas has a good season obviously Seattle and if there's a division title on the line or a playoff spot on line, I would not be shocked if one of those last two games got flexed into prime time, you know, looking ahead on that one. Yeah, with Russell Wilson. By the way, what have you learned about Russell Wilson? What are you gonna tell some of the rookies when they go against Russell Wilson for the first time. Yeah, he's he's Houdini and Houdini in the pocket,
a guy who can throw at all angles. And a guy who can just get open and just throw the rock. You know, I remember last year a touchdown that was caught on me against DK. He ran like an over went vertical, went corner like Russell had the ball for at least eight seconds and it was a perfect dime. And that's what I'm gonna tell guys for sure, Plaster plaster. When you play the Seahawks, you got a plaster. It's not just their routes. They don't just run you know,
football routes. They backyard football rust so gets open and less party. So that's the Seahawks. You know what's incredible about it. You guys were number five and sacks per attempt last year, sacks number five and sacks per attempt without Chandler Jones. How much better is your pass road's gonna be with him? Yeah, I definitely think it's gonna be a lot better. We'll see, and uh, you know, I don't really want to say much, but we'll see how it all goes. It definitely is gonna feel like, well,
we'll do great things. That's what I love about your You're you're more about doing than talking. Yeah, yeah, you always have Zaly No, no, I'm not much of a talker. I'm sorry if it's boring to you, go, I'm not a big talker. I'm more about that action. No love the way you play without action. About it? For Buddha Baker, he's in demand. He's gonna leave us and go network. He's gonna go to NFL Network and join them and talk about the Cardinal schedule in the upcoming season. How
about it once again, Buddha Baker. Everyone the Cardinals all pro safety and it's great to be great to have you coming up with a FISHI guys have me all right? We continue with the big red rage. Right after this, hurry back to throw. Flushed out, rolling left in trouble, slips a tackle, Gotta launch it. He does left side into the end zone jump ball and it is Is it caught? Is it caught? Oh my goodness, it's ft the Gray Hopkins mood. He caught him ducked down with
one second lap. I can't believe that. You've gotta be joking me. Hopkinsiness rages off with freedom vendors around him. Head pulls it in head. The Cardinals lad at thirty two to thirty quit a second lap. Chad Cover Duke, You're not gonna be able the cover room throw the ball off. What a great call from the collective voice of the Arizona Cardinals. Day pass Ron Wolfley Wolf is here, Paul Calvci special thanks again to Buddha Baker for joining us on this very special edition of The Big Red
Rage presented by Santan four Gilbert. We are Santan Ford here at four Peaks Brewing Company in Tempee. I still can't believe that went down. I was in that end zone. All I know is you had four guys hit the ground, and I'm like, wait a minute. None of the bills dbs have the ball and I don't see the ball on the ground anywhere. So process of elimination. I'm going to reverse engineer this. DeAndre Hopkins must have the ball, and he did have the ball in the Hail Murray.
It's incredible, paul A. Players win games, and you know that play. You go back and look at it, Kyler Murray escaping from the pocket and actually rolling out, buying himself time and then making that throw down the field. It wasn't a halmry A lot of people, you know, we call it the Hall Murray. Of course, it was not it was DeAndre Hopkins by himself over there. That was by design as well. And just the fact that Kyler Murray had the athleticism to extend the play get
out of the pocket. And then that throw that that kid made down the field on the run like that somebody in his face, unbelievable pro And then to have DeAndre Hopkins elbate go up high point the ball, catch it and bring it down with three guys literally hanging on him. Players win games, Paulie, never forget that. And then just the lack of a reaction from DeAndre Hopperts. He's like, it's almost if he expected to make the catch. Everyone else was going berserk. Except have you ever seen
his hands bump? I mean right now, I know, seriously, yeah, he could palm like three bats sickles that It is amazing and you just never know when that moment is going to happen. The schedule is out and single game tickets are on sale right now at asy Cardinals dot com Slash game ticks. That's Asy Cardinals dot com Slash game t i X. You look at this schedule. We
went over it with Buddha. I don't know what stands out to you, Wolf, I do know it's gonna be great to have more fans in the stands, and many more fans will be able to see those sort of moments like the win again the Bills in the dramatic fashion. I look at this and I go, Okay, you know what, there's nothing really crazy. There's not like three straight games on the East Roast. You know, you start with three or your first four on the road, three of your
last five at home. Okay, but three of those first four on the road. One of them is a road trip to La to take on the Rams. So it's just an hour. You only have one ten am kickoff from what I can tell, because your game at Cleveland is actually in the National Afternoon Showcase slot, a one o'clock Arizona kick four o'clock on the East. You know bad weather games, well, sure, early December at Chicago you never know what. You could be sixty degrees, it could
be ten degrees. You have no idea there. Late September at Jacksonville could be hot and humid. We'll see about that. We've been there and done that one in Jacksonville before. Those are just sort of my initial takeaways and then of course you know some of the division games down the stretch, taking on the Rams in Seattle in the last five weeks. Yeah, paul you know what weeks four through six, that's the fifth fight there, Paula. I mean
that to me. You know what it's like at kel Berkeley, how product it was all the fifth were passing at cal Berkeley week four through six at the Rams San Francisco at home at Cleveland, I think that is the first fist fight of the season, and then the brawl happens at the end of the season. As far as I'm concerned. That's home against the Colts. That's at Dallas, and I expect Dallas to be much better, much more physical, better, especially with a Dak healthy Dak Prescott. And then of
course Seattle at home. I see that as a brawl. Those three games once again, back to back to back, right there, Those are the two rough spots, the tough, tough football games that are going to be played. I think of the season, they're all tough, Paully, but when you start stacking them up back to back to back, that's when it becomes really really physical and really difficult as a player inside that locker room. And for what it's worth, the Cardinal's strength of schedule is thirteenth in
the NFL. That's based on last year's win lost. Absolutely, you know, as you know, it's your point. It always evolves, specially now in the NFL. There's so much change. There's so much of that is happening in the off season, especially with some of these quarterbacks. We've never seen an
off season like this with a quarterback club. And the quarterback club is real, Paul, you know all about it, and the fact that now things are changing, the dynamic is changing with the likes of Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers, and now there's a lot more say that these guys want to be involved in in some of the decisions in the off season. It's very interesting to watch. And those marquee quarterback matchups, that's what jumps off the page
to me in this schedule as well. I mean Kyler against Aaron Rodgers, Kyler against Russell Wilson twice, Kyler against Matthew Stafford twice, Dak Prescott, Trevor Lawrence, the other rookies that you have there, you know, I mean you mentioned it earlier, Kyler against Baker, Baker Mayfield. I can't believe that isn't in prime time. I just said that. That's shocking to me. And then the potential of going against three rookie quarterbacks. If you're Buddha Baker, he's not gonna
say it, We'll say it four. He's got to be looking his chops at the prospect of going against the Trevor Lawrence, A, Trey Lance, A Justin Fields all in the same season. That's an area where a guy like Buddha can have some fun trying to exploit the inexperience of rookie quarterbacks, albeit very talented, yes, and athletic. All three of them have serious athleticists. That makes it intriguing.
That first game against the forty nine ers, PAULI week number five right there, right, I think we're gonna see Jimmy g If. I'm I think we're gonna see Jimmy g and week number five. And it wouldn't shock me if week number nine at San Francisco we saw Trey Lance. I'm just saying now. Now listen, it's a year to year proposition, it truly is. But you know they want to get him some experience at some point, I would
imagine week number nine not a bad way to go. Now, again, it's all going to depend on whether or not Jimmy g is playing at a high level. I don't expect him to play at a high level. I don't think he's gonna do well with his replacement right behind him either. That our history says he'll be injured by the time they get to week nine, So we'll see about that.
And then, speaking of rookies, you mentioned it earlier, how can you not look at your two opening games against the Tennessee Titans and the Minnesota Vikings and not think about Zaban Collins and Isaiah Simmons in the middle going against the likes of Derrick Henry and Dalvin Cook and the play action, especially for Hyan Tannehill. That is a serious challenge for any rookie middle linebacker who we presume is going to be expected to make all the calls.
That's exactly right, Pauli, and we were talking to Buddha Baker about this very thing. He might actually help him out get involved in it. But those two teams right there are very, very similar because offensively they do they palm the box man, they line up and they run the ball in between the tackles. They do it very very well. Mike Zimmer, are you kidding me? He loves that and the same thing, Mike Frabel, Oh my goodness, are you kidding me. He's a physical player when he played.
He's a physical minded coach. Right now, he demands that from his players. They're gonna hammer, hammer, hammer the box and then use play action to throw the ball down the field. For a couple of young inside linebackers right there, boy, you're gonna want to suck up and get in there and hit Derek Henry and how you know you and all of a sudden they're gonna throw it over your head. Ball.
It's just gonna be a mess. Well, look, we saw what the Niners did at Santa Clara last year week one, early in that game, or he mostreed out of the backfield and they targeted Isaiah Simmons and it worked. It will take incredible discipline, I discipline from both those guys, Isaiah Simmons and Zavian Collins to actually hold up there and play well. It's not out of the realm of possibility by any stretching the imagination. But having said that,
It's gonna be a difficult adjustment right there. You're a guy coming from college where you play checkers, Paul, Now all of a sudden, you're gonna be playing chess. It's very interesting that the Cardinals objected in the offseason, and you heard Steve Kim saying time and again is to get more physical. Well, that's gonna be tested right out of the game those two games right there, Polly again.
You know, honestly, it's not like the Tennessee Titans are a very physical rush defense number nineteen as a matter of fact in the NFL, but you know, their coach demands that they are physical. We heard Voda Bakers say about the impact JJ Watt is already having behind the scenes, guys, talking to guys, trying to get to know guys culture, you know, firing those guys up and getting ready to
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