Big Red Rage - Budda Baker's Rise To Stardom

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There was actually other sounds coming out of Tampa today as Bruce Arians actually fired up crowd noise, actually pumped in crowd noise at practice because lo and behold, there's gonna be twenty five thousand or so fans at that stadium on Sunday. So just in case for the first time all year. Oh, I don't know, you might have to go into a silent account. Perhaps, Yeah, Paully, not

only that too. Did you seem to actually practiced this week where they went ahead and went out on the field and they practiced, and then all of a sudden they went in and did nothing inside they took twenty six minutes off because that's how long it's supposed to be the halftime, twenty six Did you see that, Paulie. I did not see that, but that is true. And then they came out, Yes, they came back out and practiced again. Let me tell you, we were both there.

Super Bowl forty three did a lot longer than twenty six minutes, forty six minutes. Well, do you remember at the time, at the time super Bowl forty three, the halftime, it was the longest halftime in the history of the NFL at the time, and that was after James Harrison. You know what happened. I never knew that. I never knew that that was the longest halftime on record at the time. And of course it makes sense. Bruce Springsteen is known for three plus hour concerts, so that totally

makes sense. It just did to be able to sit there, just to half to sit there. I guess the Cardinals are watching James Harrison return it all the way for a touchdown when they were getting ready to go in and score. Now, all of a sudden, James Harrison takes it back and he scores that legendary touchdown in that Super Bowl. Are you kidding me? You had to sit on that for the longest amount of time ever in Super Bowl history at halftime. I wasn't in a good

mood at halftime, you know, I was. In fact, I was given a few of the photographer's little elbow trying to get some space there to watch the Boss while I was doing the halftime show on the Arizona Cardinals radio network. When are you in a good mood? Paul Bruce put me in a good mood though, and then the second half did until the final two thirty seven

of the game or whatever it was, exactly Wolf. We have quarterback news here, and I'm not talking about Cole McDonald who's signed with the Cardinals to a futures contract, the former Hawaii contract, the quarterback news in the NFC West. I'm talking about Matthew Stafford going obviously in the Mondo trade to the Rams. I haven't heard your reaction yet. Let us know here on the Big Red. I'm just gonna say this right now, Polly. It's it's not a

great thing. I'm not happy to see Matthew Stafford come in. But what did shock you to know that Jared Goff actually has a higher career quarterback rating than Matthew Stafford. Would that shock wow a little bit? Matthew Stafford doesn't even have a ninety he doesn't he is an eighty nine quarterback. Rady Poly you do it over years and you look at it more times than not. The best quarterbacks in the league that quarterback rating, they're in the

top ten. Why is that because it's a good measurement as to how a human being is playing the quarterback position. Think about it. The rams Is in twenty seventeen were number one in points. In twenty eighteen number two in points behind Jared Goff. Yes, and that Lion's defense just gave up an all time team record in points this year, worse than the winless team that went oh in sixteen.

So Big Red rage an swine bethet our guest Tonight Murray and Shotgun has the football short set, throws a deep ball left side single coverage and it is pulled in by DeAndre Hopkins and he's got a touchdown on a throw by Tyler Murray. And want to catch by Duke to put the Cardinals on the board with two thirty nine to go on the first Duke was one on one great throw by Kyler Murray, but an even

better read touchdown. We said it's gonna be Russell Wilson or Kyler Murray, whoever plays better, that's who's gonna win this game. Snaps a Murray and he keeps it himself running left, got a defender with him at the five breaks a tackle dives ball comes out, but he crossed the plane touchdown Kyler Murray. Somehow Subway found a way to get that pig across Peter. Big time play Kyler Murray.

That was Week seven, the win against the Seahawks on Sunday Night Football thirty seven thirty four was a game where the Cardinals trail ten nothing twenty seven to fourteen. They trailed thirty four to twenty four in the fourth quarter,

came back to win. Kyler Murray the NFC Offensive Player of the Week in that game well, and at thirty five yard touchdown, passed a d hop Remember that was a play Cliff Kingsbury admitted his stealing from Ohio State where everyone was looking at the sideline as if they're awaiting a play call, and then they snapped it and Kyle had the smile on his face and he hit d hopped down the sideline. You know what, I'm all four in twenty twenty one, Polly, I'm all for any

time that Deandrey Hopkins is singled up. Anytime he singled up whatsoever. You got a safety in the middle of the field, Convert any route, any route that he's gonna run to a fate, throw it up ball. I mean you see, it's not a fifty fifty ball with Deandrey Hopkins. It's not. It's seventy five twenty five. And you know, that was the game he had ten grabs, he had over one hundred yards, he had the touchdown there obviously,

but there were other games where he was contained. And if you heard Kyler Murray recently doing some of the Super Bowl media interviews on a variety of different shows, in fact of its Pat McAfee show, where he went on and said, among other things, that you just didn't know which team you were getting quote end quote, if you remember that, because obviously that was a high point of the season that went against the Seahawks and then the way they ended the season. And here's Kyler Wolf

and what he told NFL Network recently. I think we led the league in penalties, you know, and that's that's not winning football. It's not championship football. We showed a lot of flashes, but you know, I think there's a lot of work to be done, and I hope, you know, we can come back with that since urgency and understand, you know, there's a lot of work that needs to be done because I mean our division, I think we

played the toughest division in the NFL. It's all getting tougher, so the urgency guys would be super hot, all right. So on one hand, you can't correct a problem unless you identify and diagnose a problem. So it's good to hear that they realize urgency, the inconsistency of the intensity at times, specially to end the season in those last two games Week six ten, in particular at home, the loss to the Niners. But well, if how do you go about correcting that? Here here's the thing about it.

First of all, I love to see Kyler Murray actually address this. I love the fact that he's talking about it because they all need to start talking about it. I'm talking about the players that are in the locker room. Be ready to go be a pro, Polly, be ready to go out there, and forget about who you're playing, what their record might be, how many points they've scored, how good their defense is, forget about all of it.

It's more about the Arizona Cardinals. I think in twenty twenty one, Polly, and it starts in the locker room. That's great. It starts with the thought and the thought that Kyler Murray is articulating is what We've got to be more urgent. We've got to come out ready to go. And that's great. I love the fact that he's articulating, and he's right. But that starts, Polly on Wednesday. That starts on Wednesday. That starts and carries over to Thursday

and Friday. It's the urge of preparing. It's putting the game first. Especially as a franchise quarterback. Kyler Murray's got to do that. He's got it's got to start with him, Paulli, and the urgency comes throughout the week, not on Sunday morning. I completely agree. I think year three is where he

needs to take the lead in that department. If Bruce arians cites Tom Brady as the culture right now, as the difference with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, well guess what that goes for every single quarterback think about a wolf winning we refference Super Bowl forty three. Who was the difference maker that year? Obviously Kurt Warner with the Cardinals at the NFC Championship, it was Carson Palmer running practices on the offensive side by himself every Friday. BA basically

outsourced it to Carson Palmer. I think he would agree. Carson Palmer to a large degree, was the culture on that team, holding guys accountable, and so at some point in every franchise quarterback's career, correct me if I'm wrong. You have to be that guy and be that No, absolutely, Pally, it does. And I love to hear once again, it's so important that Kyler Murray is articulating this stuff, Paul,

that he's actually talking about it. Our sense of urgency the Arizona Cardinals, and this was something that we saw, PAULI and we were talking about after the month of September just watching the first three four games of the season. Basically, the Arizona Cardinals, for whatever reason, had a tendency of playing up and down to their competition. And I'm sorry that squarely is on the shoulders of every player that is inside that locker room. Paul, you know how I

feel about this. We've been together for a long long time. I've articulated the way I feel about this, But my goodness, I never needed another man to get me ready to play in a football game. I'm sorry. I didn't need it, and I don't need it, and I wouldn't need it if somehow some way I could get my decrepit butt back out on the field and stick a mouth guard in. It wouldn't be Cliff Kingsbury or any coach that got me ready to play. I'd have to get myself ready

to play. It starts with the players. This revolution inside the Arizona Cardinals locker room has got to start and end with the players. Guys, fed off your energy and your intensity. Sort of like our guest tonight, Antoine thea fet who's gonna join us momentarily field that live. On Sunday, you can watch Alicia Keys and music's biggest stars perform in a first of its kind concert to help small businesses tune into the Verizon Big Concert for Small Business.

That's Sunday at eleven eastern nine o'clock Arizona time. As we continue with the Big Red Rage presented by Santan four King, Gilbert run to the right faking the handoff, gets tracked down in the backfield of the twenty nine hard line by Antoine Dthey hitting sacked back in the forty seven yard line by Antoine Bathet. He never had a chance to set up because Bethet was in the backfield. Smackspeth down to the ground and they hand it off up the middle and a Cardinal stuffed Washington at the two.

He lost the yard. Great play, Antwan the the hit in the backfield and sacked Antoine today was back there, Oh baby, that is huge quarterback draw. He's at the five. He's hit by butthey had the two and taken down. Man, some guys played this game like they're baking a cake and then you've got guys just eat cake. And I believe Antoine Bathe right there ate a little bit of CJ. Bethor's cake. Oh man. Where was Antoine Bathe when the Cardinals needed him Week sixteen against c J bet in

that game against the nine? Wow? That so well. You remember back a few years ago as we're gonna bring on a former Cardinal, former Arizona Cardinals Walter Peyton Man in the year. By the way, our special guest tonight awesome, dude. Do you remember we had that that show over at Marley's Chandler Fashion Center and the guests were Antoine Bethet and Trey Boston. And it was a good thing we didn't get paid by the word that night, because that

might have been the easiest show we've ever done. That was like hashtag just add water right and we had an hour of great contest, so we had to bring him back. Antoine Bethet is our guest tonight. Aby. How are you doing. I'm doing good. Are you guys doing? You're doing great, brother, Thank you so much for joining us, ad Twine. We appreciate it, Bud, no problem. You know, it's doing this pandemic, doing COVID. So I got twenty

times with my land. What are you doing? If you don't mind me asking, how are you hanging through all of this? Because I know you played in twenty nineteen and all of a sudden twenty twenty the pandemic of course, how are you holding up? That guy? I'm moving up, good man. Um, you know, I'm just trying to take the good paying different man. Just slow you down a little bit, you know. Um, you know the past fourteen

fifteen years, man, I've been on the goal. So it's just one of the first time in a long time where I've just been able to just to chill, relax and spend some quality time with the family man. So I just I've been doing that and spending time with the family man, enjoying this retirement and taking it one day at a time. It was just recently though that you tweeted out or made it official your retirement right at Twine. Yeah, yeah, it was earlier or last month

or last month. You know, it's kind of been I've kind of been thinking about it for for a little bit now and it just wanted to make it official. Just put it behind me, man, just keep on, you know, moving in to that next chapter, life after Football. What do you think you're going to miss the most, stand Twine, Man, It's it's the camaraderie. Man, It's the locker room. It's the plane trips, the bus trip. That's what I'm gonna miss the most. Yesterday with relationships, man, just sitting in

the locker room, laughing and joking. You know obviously, you know, running out of that tunnel on Sundays. We'll never I'll never I'll never found a highlight that again. And whatever I do um in his next chapter, iou I'm gonna miss that. But I think it's just the guys just hanging around, the guys laughing and joking, and you're lapping

on him, ripping him. You know. For those who aren't familiar, we're talking about Antoine Bethet, who just finished up a fourteen year career, a three time pro bowler, a former sixth round pick, wolf from Howard University. And here's the guy came into the league not only started as a rookie, but one of Super Bowls rookie year with Peyton Manning and the Colts. And you put in your retirement tweet, if I saw correctly hashtag bet on yourself. What do you mean by that? What do you maybe the young

guys take away from that man? And you know, just just believing yourself, you know, believing yourself and betting yourself. And you know, one thing for me, like when I came into the league, it was all about just I just wanted an opportunity. If you give me the opportunity, I'm a run with it. And again, you know, I just tell people all the time, especially like even with this this pandemic. You know, um, you see a lot of people that have been doing some good things doing

doing this pandemic time. Um, just bettering yourself, just believing in yourself and just going on in that limit, just believe that you could do whatever you put your set your mind to. You know, if if you don't better yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, why should anybody else do it? You know what I mean? So I always that's kind of like my motto, just better myself. Um, you know, if I'm if I'm at the casino, if I'm in Vegas, and I gotta better on anybody, I

better hands on with thing. You know what's amazing about too? When I when I when I think of your career, I think of you as a player coach. You were a guy that was so cerebral on the field, a guy that understood the defense and under stood the offense and studied the offense and what it was that we're trying to do. I see you going into coaching. Am I way off base on that one? No, you're not where you are. Um. You know I've heard that, you know,

even during my time as a player. But I know for me, you know, I've been asked that recently, and for me, you know, I think it would just have to be the perfect situation for me at this time right now. It again, is it too early right now? For you? You're still I Again, That's why I say would have to be the perfect situation because I've spent so much time away from my family. Um, you know, I have you know, my son, you know, my second time, my son's four and that's all he's talked about football.

So just you know, I'm enjoying the time with them, seeing them, being able to see them grow. Um. So again, like I said that coaching would have to be the perfect time and now end up in a few you know, I'm definitely open to it. But as of right now, somebody came to me and say, hey, you know, you've got an opportunity. It will have to be the perfect situation. I'm not even sure that perfect situation is even out there.

It's all about you present a body. Santan Ford and Gilbert Antoine Bethey, our guests fourteen year career in the NFL. Larry Fitzgerald met the media yesterday at the Phoenix Open Antoine and deflected all questions that you might imagine about his decision. Right So, what do you think he's there? What is he asking himself right now? You know, as a guy who just made the decision yourself, what do

you think he's contemplating? First of all, the all season training, you know, and my going and my cannot get myself to the point where I can train the way I know I need to train, to prepare myself for the season. I think that's kind of I think that's one of the hardest things, because once you get to the season, you know you can, you can get up for Sunday, you can go into meet room and you know, obviously, um, Sitch knowing you know the offense like the back of

his hand, that that's gonna be the easy part. I think the hall part is training, doing an off season, going to OTAs and going through that training Kim. I think that's kind of the the thing, the main one of the main things he could potentially be thinking about.

And also, um, he's a future Hall of Famer, So like when he goes out there in between those white line, he has a um, you know, he has he has a standard that he sets for him, he set for himself his previous years of this is how I need to be, this is how I need to look on Sunday. And if he feels though he can't give him, he can't give the Cardinals that, um, you know, that might be another thing they think he's thinking about. But you know, Chris Man's future Hall of Famer Man, a great player,

great guy off the field man. So whatever his decision is, Man, I know um error was gonna be thankful for him. The oldest Asia will be thankful for man. You know, whatever he does, he's gonna be good. It was amazing

about it, Antoine. I remember back in my career, my ninth year in the league, and I just caught a touchdown pass from Vinnie Testaverdi, and I had taken my eye off the ball because I noticed Greg Lloyd was coming to wipe me out right, and I took my eye off the ball, and yet I caught the thing. And I remember standing out there with my arms up to the dog Pound in Cleveland, getting ready to cover

a kick. And I remember, as I was putting my arms up, thinking, you've never done that before in your life, and you know this is the beginning of the end, right. I literally knew that as I'm standing in front of the dog Pound with my arms up. Was there a moment for you? Was there a moment in twenty nineteen when you were playing where you felt like, you know

what this might be? It? You know, it wasn't. It wasn't when I was plane, but it was mornings when the long clock went off, and I didn't want to go into building right right, And that's when I and that's that had never happened to me before. Like you know, you know, regardless of you know, you could be sure, you could be tired, but you was like, you know, I'm readily going to building, you know, I want to see the guys. But um, that last year in New York,

I don't know what it was. Man, when some some mornings when not a long clock went off, I did not want to go into building. That's when I kind of started to think about, like, you know, it may be that time. Ye hey, some of us face that when you're talking about morning radio and at three forty five am wake up calling. It's not just the NFL. Yeah, three forty five, man, that's rough. Pauli, Pensylvan can relay

it on one level. Put it that way. Look, when we come back, we're gonna talk to Antoine Bethet about the two thousand and twenty Cardinals and morphing into the two thousan twenty one Cardinals and what Kyler said and what do you do when you get an inconsistent team week to week and you're trying to ratchet up that intensity to be consistent. And then Buddha Baker, obviously the first team All Pro and the Pro bowler. We'll talk

about his maturation a guy he knows real well. It is the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. We are santan Ford visiting with former Cardinal safety Antoine Bathet. Shot comes snapped to Murray, steps up and takes off far side of the twenty. He got room at the ten, cuts right to the five, jukes the defender ten score touchdown Kyler Murray. That defender isn't multiple pieces at the five yard line? Is? He tried to break down and

make that play and Kyler broke him down. Murray back to throw, flushed out, rolling left in trouble, slips a tackle. I don't launch it. He does left sides into the end zone jump ball and it is Is it caught? Is it caught? Oh my goodness, it's fun. DeAndre Hopkins fun day. Caught duckdown of my second laft. I can't believe that you've gotta be joking. Names Cardinals blitz back and Torddalton gets hit and slim to the ground by Buddha Baker like a torpedo. He came flying into the

backfield and smoked Andy Dalton. What a day, Buddha Baker. I tell you plenty of place for Dave Passed the Voice of the Cardinals to describe this last season. There you have at the three Pro bowlers for the Arizona Cardinals here on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. We are Santan for tonight's edition, Paul calvc, Ron Wolfley, and former Cardinals safety Antoine Bethet. Buddha Baker

had one hundred and eighteen tackles last year. Eight times he had a season of one hundred plus tackles a B and and we'll get to Buddha in a minute. I want to ask you about where we left off in the last segment, because Buddha talked about he was named team apton midway through the year and he really took on that leadership role, says he wants to be

more of a leader. And based on what Kyler said this week the NFL Network about how at times the intensity and urgency wasn't enough this year, you saw inconsistency in the Cardinals from week to week and game to game. What do you do about that? From your experiences? Is that something that's easily correctable. I think it just comes with the growth, the growth and the guys in the field,

the growth of the team. You know. Obviously, you know I was kind of seeing the same thing just because when you they were playing some good ball and it was right at the time, you know, in the season when you were like, you know, they can make a turn to be one of those teams to be the record with in the NFC, But it would be one week it would be alone. Then the next week they'll play well. So I just think it comes with guys playing together more and a lot of times just attention

to detail. You know, a lot of times it comes down to like four plays of the game, man um. You know, just being on the other side or the right side of those four plays, it could, you know, really be a big turnaround in your season. You know, Buddha Baker has really mature. Give me your thoughts on

that maturation. Man. I love him, man just you know, being able to see him his rookie year making Pro Bowl, you know, primarily you know, special teams guy, but then coming into the next year as a as a starter and ain't playing big, you know. And that's what I like about Booder, just the way he plays the game. He plays the game the way it's supposed to be played.

Obviously a cap in now. So just to be able to see that process, man, it's um, it's it's it's a. It's a it's a great feeling just to be able to see that all pro pro bowler um and the way he's doing it. Man, I'm happy for booting its first two picks this year at a couple of sacks. Speaking of sacks, Hassan Reddick had a break out year. They finally maybe put him back on the edge is college position what he calls his natural position, and man,

he ended up with twelve and as sacks this year. Uh, tell us about what you saw from a sign Reddick, man, Um, it's funny. I talked to sign a little bit, man, and I was happy for him, just because you know, a lot of times people like to um throw the bus word out of there out there a lot, you know what I mean. But it's crazy because you know you've seen the tyler, you know, and it was just about putting him in the right position. Um, so he

could succeed and they did. Man, And obviously you know he he had a hell of a season, a hell of a season, and I'm happy for a sign and um just to continue hopefully he could just continue to build off this h this past season, um, and just continue to do work. You know, super Bowl fifty five here it is, and you were around Bruce arians and have been all the way back to Indianapolis, which cracks up a little bit about India then of course Arizona as well. Here. How happy are you that BA is

in this Super Bowl fifty five? Man, I'm excited and not only for him, but just you know, um, everybody um over there. You know you got left with you got goodie, Um, you got a foot dog. Um, you know Blaine Q, you know what I mean. So you got a lot of guys that you know that's that's

like family. Man. So I'm I'm happy for him. And then obviously you know what BA and this you know just talking about you know, just with the process, um where the league is at right now with just diversity and the coaching staff and um, you know, diversity in league positions and how BA he's always been out in front of that. You know, That's what I think. A lot of a lot of people respect him for UM and just being on the front line for that, and not only just UM black and brown coaches, but then

also UM women coaches as well, you know. So I'm happy for Ba man, I'm happy for the guys over there, and I'm excited to see a good game on Sunday. A former Cardinal safety Antwine. But they are guests of the Big rid Rage, right, So give us a quick thought on that Bucks defense. They found a way against Aaron Rodgers. What about against Patrick Mahomes. What do you

think about that matchup? Man, It's gonna be tough. They got to go back and watch that film, um when they paid the Canadas to the twos early this year and do the opposite or whatever they was doing that guy, Um in that first where they gave up seventeen points. You know what they were doing at They were playing a lot of man, cover a lot of man, and what they were doing they put in their hands Trek Hill at that number three spot. And I don't care how fast you are, man, you he's running that oval.

It's gonna be tough. So obviously I'm pretty sure, they'll watch that film, they'll critique it, they'll switch some things up. But um, you know the biggest thing. You're not gonna be able to shut them down. But when you were able to turn the ball over against Patrick Mahomes in the offense, you got to take advantage of opportunities. Um. I think that's the biggest thing. Um, you gotta do. They did that. Um, they did that, you know something

during the season. So it's gonna be big for that secondary. But they have a good game. And who do you expect to win? I mean, what's your prediction on this? Now? You know I kind of had before knowing who was who's gonna be in the who's gonna playing the Super Bowl? I had Kansas City winning. Yeah. Um, it's tough. I don't want to go against you know, coach BA and

m and it's tough to bet against Tom Brady. But what Kansas City is doing, the weapons that they have, the way they playing, even the defense with you know, with with with with ty on the defense beating that defense man that team, Um, they played good, complimentary football. So um, if I was a batman, I will I will go with KC on Sunday. If you're game playing, then gets mahomes. Where do you start. Not only do you have mahomes, you have all the weapons, you have

the scheme. What is it that makes it so challenging? What do you think Todd Bawls is gonna attempt to do? Now, I'm not sure I'll be It's it's um, it's tough. I know one thing, I would have two sets of eyes on Tyree Hill. I would not I would try my best not to let him, Um, you know, beat me. Um obviously you know you got Kelsey. Um he has some other weapons. But you know Tywick Hill, he's gonna beat you down the field. You you can't let the

ball over your head. And then you know that front, you know, the front has to get get out the mahomes and keep them in that pocket. Don't let them, you know, get outside the pocket and full of the plays. Um. So the rush, the rush game, the rush plan has to be on point, has to tie in with the coverage. So again, man, you got to try to throw the timing off as well, you know, as a as a

defensive end. Before you get to the rush, you don't try to get hands on Kelsey and disrupt some of that time, and so I'm pretty sure they would down some things up and and and and be creative with some things. But it's just it's gonna be. It's gonna be. It got some work cut out film, you know. Honestly, I gotta tell you, Antoine, I am shocked that Tampa Bay is here. I am shocked that Tom Brady is here.

When when I think back to October, the end of October right there, it wasn't like they didn't have a good record, but they just looked a little disjointed. And the fact that they're actually here in the Super Bowl once again, I am stunned that Tom Brady has been able to accomplish what is Do you believe he's the greatest of all time? Yeah? I mean, UM ten super Bowls? Like, I don't know how you can argue with you argue against that, UM ten super bowls? Um I agree with you.

Going into the season, I'm like, man, you know you got Tom Brady, got all the weapons out there, like it's gonna be, it's gonna be rough for opposing defenses. But as a season started, man, it didn't look that way. But as we as we all know, it's all about timing. You know, when do you get hot and they got hot at the right time. Um. And and it's crazy like even last not last week, but the week prior. You know, he threw three interceptions again in the NFC

Championship game and they still wont. So, Um, it's it's it's it's scary, man, when it's the it's they fall in his favor. So again, Man, he's been here ten times. I don't know how you can argue against that. Um. You know, it's not pretty every time. But if he's able to get seven rings, man, I don't know how you can't crown him as, um the best quarterback to play the game. I mean some of the stats are

just absurdy. If he wins, will be the only play ever to win a Super Bowl in three different decades. I mean, come on, you know stuff like that. By the way, The Man to Man podcast hosted by Antoine Bethey our guest, and Darius Butler, former NFL dB and you got an episode that's gonna drop tomorrow with three times Super BOWLD champion Devin McCardy. How's the podcast going, ab man, it's going good. Man. Being on the other side and in the media, on the on the media

side now. But it's going good man, just being able to talk with different players, hear that story and laughing joke and just you know, and didn't even give our knowledge, like you said, my co host Dar's Bahlague's teammates in Indianapolis he played nine years. So just to be able to you know, kind of talk to the fans and in the viewers and give our a little two cents on how we view things. Man. So it's been fun. It's been as fun. It's been a process, but I'm

enjoying it. Antoine, you mentoring any kids, So um, I'll do some stuff back home in Newport News where you know where I mentor and I do stuff through my Paday Family Foundation. So obviously, man giving back to the community and being seen in the community has always been dead to me. So awkward scene to do that. The world needs you, bro, That's why I'm asking world needs

you there. I'd tell you you knew it. He was one of the Cardinals players who met with Governor Doucy back in the day, you know, when he was playing for the Cardinals once again. The Cardinals Walter paid Manny the year twenty eighteen a b we enjoyed it, man, Thank you so much for the time. No, I appreciate it.

Thank you God bless brother. There you go, Antoine Bethet, and it's the Manda mand podcast by the way, and on Twitter you can follow him the handles Wolf at the Manda Man Pod and you can catch the podcast and Apple podcast, Spotify and Google podcasts as well. So think about it. The last three weeks, Wolf as, Sean Johnson, Sam Acho, and Antoine Bethet all guests of The Big Red Rage, and they all have their own podcasts. Used to be you needed your own mock draft. Now it's

your own podcast. And that's how it works these days. Sounds like we have a serious producer. Does a non point Oh come back, We'll talk super Bowl fifty five and how about Kansas City next on the Big Red Range. Check it in Chen from the homes that has earned twenty five Now gonna throw a slant cart thirty five yard line. Choot moved, Terry kill forty five fifty yard line. Touch it back, look down to thirty five thirty Cheetah hit full speed, ten to five yard line. Dude, flare press.

The Cheetah will run you all the way around the Earth. It's a seventy one yard pass play to the Cheetah on a flick slant shovel it inside the Kelsey Finny Lynch and Dodge touchdown Chanson City a new wrinkle to Kelsey. Sus drinks from the sweet nectar the in zone on the shovel pass, and the Chiefs have their biggest lead of the game. That on the Chief Radio network there as Kansas City gonna stay in Casey until late on Saturday afternoon and then flying to Tampa just over twenty

four hours before kickoff. They're gonna fly into town for Super Bowl fifty five. Obviously, the Buccaneers the first team ever to play the Super Bowl in their home stadium. As we welcome you back here on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Special thanks the former Cardinals safety Antoine. But they Paul calvic, Ron Wolfley and and well there's one path I think for the Chiefs to get beat in this one, and that's if they can't protect Patrick Mahomes If because of their injury

situation with the two starting tackles. We all know how Tom Brady lost those games against Eli Manning and the Giants because that Giants front was able to get pressure with four and drop seven. And to me, that would be the big, the easiest and clearest way I would see for Tampa to actually get a victory in a ring in Super Bowl fifty. Yeah, you're right, Polly about that.

But I can tell you right now that I still expect the Kansas City Chiefs to go out there and be the juggernaut offense that we all know them to be. Their talent is just absolutely off the charts. I'm sure that Andy Reid is going to come up with an excellent game plan. You give him two weeks and he's going to do very very well in terms of preparing for the opponents. You just know how good they are.

Kansas City puts so much pressure on its opposition, Paul, whoever they're playing, If they put so much pressure on the opponents to actually be perfect in all three phases, you've got to go out and you were talking about this earlier. You got to score touchdowns if you're giving the opportunity and you're playing against the Kansas City Chiefs, Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they got to score touchdowns when they get into the red zone. Your

special teams can't give up any big place. Crazy Carl can't show up at all, right, and to be a detriment to you in terms of special teams, and then your offense, your defense, excuse me, has got to go out there and if they could, if they could limit the Chiefs to twenty seven points, again, Bruce arians would take that, Paul and run like a madman. You know that Tampa defense actually held Aaron Rodgers and check in

the red zone, did they not? Green Bay, which was the number one red zone team in the NFL, struggled most of that game. Aaron Rodgers was two to nine passing goal to go, and so I'm not sure what exactly Todd Bowles was doing in the red zone, but they fared real well against Aaron Rodgers. I'm curious how they do against Patrick Mahomes in this game. Absolutely. And here's the other thing, Polly, go back and look at the game they played in late November. I think it

was November twenty ninth. As a matter of fact, why that number six in my head? I have no idea. You go back and look at the Buccaneers Chiefs game in late November right there in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They came out and they were playing a lot of man coverage in that first quarter, Polly. They said, you know, we're gonna go ahead, We're gonna play the press man here. We don't care if you got Tiray Hill. And all of a sudden, they scored seventeen points real quickly, seventeen

points in that quarter. And then Todd Bowles started mixing it up the coverages end of playing a lot more zone and playing a lot more coverage and letting four guys try to get the Pat Mahomes and guess what, they slowed the Chiefs down. I think that's what we're gonna see. We're gonna see a lot more of everything. Yeah. When Tyreek Hill has two hundred yards receiving in the first quarter, oh, you gotta make some adjustments. Yeah, and that's what Tampa did. By the way, here's your holy

Conoli stat Ron Wolfe. The last two years Patrick Mahomes with Eric Fisher as his left tackle. Yeah, they're twenty seven and one Without Eric Fisher, Patrick Mahomes is three and three. Whow Paul, So I just throw that out there when it comes to the tackles. We'll focus on Pa and the Bucks and Tom Brady next. The Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Roger said short pass crossings had a cutback Jones thirty ball three, it's loose, it's a funball. It's picked up by win

the twenty first side lane fifteen. He goes to the first side lane tin, he's not done on the sideline at the nine. Bring babe with a turnover. It was Kevin White, the fuccaneer's key bench. They're doing it in every way today. You got a Tampa team that's won seven in a row since losing to Casey at home on November twenty nine, twenty seven, twenty four and Super

Bowl fifty five. TikTok here we go in fact live on Sunday or a miner Wolf that everyone can watch Alicia Keys and music's biggest stars perform, and a first of its kind concert to help small businesses tune into the rising Big concert for small business that is Sunday at eleven eastern nine o'clock Arizona Time. Welcome back into the Big Red Rage, So give me a few thoughts on Tampa and the Buccaneers and what exactly stands out to you in this matchup. First of all, ball, I

think they're gonna have to basically do four things. The Buccaneers are gonna have to play incredibly well offensively and run down situation first and ten second and one to six. I'm talking about being able to run the ball efficiently. They don't have to be good at it, they just need to run it efficiently so their play action pass is as effective as Tom Brady can be. That's number one.

Number two, they need to win the turnover battle. It's a cliche, paul, but I can tell you right now, if Tom Brady goes out and throws three picks like he did in the NFC Championship game, there's no way they they're gonna win this game. That's just not going to happen. Number three, they got to play well defensively on third and obvious pass situations, they have to get off the field. And number four, here's my number four question, Paulie. How many times does be a risk it and go

for that biscuit? Yeah? I mean you know, and is that feasible? Well, Tom Brady have enough time right to go ahead and go downfield, and especially against Tyrn Matthew and that chief secondary. Just that matchup alone of Tyrn Matthew going against Todd Bowles, and just just the thinking man's game, right and just everything go on BA with

a play calling and Byron Leftwitch and just everything. This the thinking side of the game and how those guys know each other so well, I'm curious what develops, no doubt about it. If you told me to pick one guy that would be the MVP of this Super Bowl who's not a quarterback, it would be Tyrane Matthew, wouldn't it. Yeah, he just got this feeling he could make that play

that would be the difference, no doubt. What about that that Tampa pass rush though, and and you know, considering what they've done in terms of getting to the quarterback in the postseason and that Tampa d seven takeaways by the defensis postseason, I mean against Kansas City. Or you think Patrick Mahomes gets rid of the ball too quickly, No, well, I think they're gonna try to do a little bit

of both. PAULI. I think that Andy Reid is one of the better offensive minds in the National Football League, especially when it comes to the talent. He's got on offense, and who are you going to take away? That's what it comes down to, Tyrake Hill. Is that okay, that's great, You're gonna take away Tyrak Hill because here's Travis Kelsey. And never forget the baseline for the Kansas City Chiefs. And again, I know we're talking about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

but the Chiefs are going to dominate this game. They're gonna dictate it. They put so much pressure on their opponent. They're gonna dominate this game. And that's why the four things I think the Buccaneers have got to do. They have to actually run the ball well enough to protect Tom Brady. They have to do that. They have to get off the field on third down. You know how difficult that is to do against his team ball. It's almost impossible. And Bruce arians is going to have to

take chances. He's gonna have to do it on some certain fourth downs. You got to score touchdowns, not field goals in the red zone. It's almost like an arena Football League game. You have to score to keep up with your opponent. And yet Tom Brady seems so content this week, does he not? The family has left him alone he's at you know that Derek Jeter estate, thirty thousand square feet all by himself. He's all ball, he's focused,

he's staying at home. He doesn't have to worry about any of the other stuff that goes along with a typical Super Bowl. I mean, you got a guy who's thirty three and eleven all time in the postseason. We talked about the ridiculous stats. Well, he's been twenty seven different quarterbacks in the playoffs in his career, including Patrick Mahomes two years ago and his oc Byron Leftwich. So it just there's just something about the fact that Tom

Brady seems real calm and real confident makes me wonder. Yeah, rundown situation, Paulie, They've got to possess the ball because that is the best defense the Buccaneers could ever have against Pat Mahomes and the Chiefs. Well, there's been no repeat Super Bowl champion since two thousand and four, when it was Tom Brady and the Patriots. Special thanks Jim Almahondro Cody Fincher, our special guest Tonight, Antoine Betet, the

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