Big Red Rage - Cardinals Prep For Wilson, Seahawks

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Ron Wolfley, we gave you a T shirt. It was a custom design T shirt just for you and a few other select people. And this actually is in addition to the prove it Everyday T shirt that you have in your closet. This particular T shirt read and I quote, effort beats talent if talent doesn't bring the effort. So coach kyl VC is here to say that, you know, you can throw the word energy in there. Energy beats talent if talent doesn't bring the energy, because is that

not what we saw out there against Carolina. As the bad news the bye week arrived two weeks earlier than expected. The good news, energy should not be a problem. It's never a problem when the Cardinals go to Seattle because boom, you go in and it's you against the world. And so there's no better game in my opinion, based on the last game we saw, than for the Arizona Cardinals to go and take on the Seahawks on the road

right before the bye week. And here we are with a big red rage featuring Jalen Thompson tonight, Ron Wolfley, are you ready? I'm ready for that ballet? Really, but you're so right on it right now. I mean, this game is going to be the intensity of the Arizona Cardinals versus the desperation of the Seattle Seahawks. That's what it's gonna come. Doubt, listen it. It doesn't matter, Paul. It doesn't matter if Kyler plays or doesn't play. It

doesn't matter if Dha plays or doesn't play. It doesn't matter if the twelves are there or they're not there. None of it matters. If the Arizona Cardinals go out with the intensity we saw last week against the Carolina Panthers, none of it matters because they'll get destroyed if that happens again. It was almost as if the Cardinals took a sick day, as in, we're sick of playing football. That's what it looked like to a certain degree. And look, they have eleven games before the bye, so we'll see

what it's all about on Sunday. To your point, we may or may not see Kyler Murray. And the injury report has come out, the long awaited an injury report today. Yes, he is listed as limited limited. So there's what you read as in the injury report and there it is, okay, And then there's what they say and Kyler saying for the second straight week that he's making quote crazy progress in big strides. Okay, are you going to break something here?

Are you going to break a story? It's just my own observation, Oh, your own observation, okay, literally an observation. There's what you see they allow you to see in the open part of practice, okay, or talking about practice, man and there was Kyler and oh boy, he wasn't just throwing a football round Wilfley. He was taking a drop and throwing a football. He was moving his feet, he was chopping his feet and moving around and throwing a football, which is more than he did this time

a week ago. So maybe, just maybe that is something that foreshadows his re emergence on Sunday. Yeah, Polly, honestly, right now, I hope you're right about that, because I do want to see Kyler Murray. There's no doubt I want to see Kyler Murray out there. I think it's important that he gets out there. Even though the bye is coming, I understand that. I still think it's important that he gets out there if he can play. Now. Again, it's not a situation where you want to risk Kyler

Murray for the rest of the season. But we're talking about an ankle here. I don't think it is a risk, and every player has got to make up his own mind. It should be that way, Paulie. Every player has the right, obviously, has the choice to determine whether or not he's going to play based on the set of circumstances he's been given. None of it has anything to do with being a franchise quarterback or not. It's just a personal decision that

Kyler Murray has to make. Let's hope Paul that he's able to play, and I'd love to see that going into the bye because we all know what the Cardinal's offense looked like minus Kyler Murray against Carolina. They had one hundred and sixty nine total yards. They got out first down, if you will, twenty four to eleven. They got out rush one sixty six to sixty five. So they were a team that got down seventeen nothing, they

got down twenty three nothing. So it was glaring and apparent what they were missing without not only Kyler Murray but d Hop. They're only legitimate number one receiver on this roster, and Cliff Kingsbury was asked an obvious but very important question about that this week. Those are two

of the best players in the league. So there's things that they have to do to try and account for both guys, whether it's Kyler in the quarterback run game each and every time he's handling the ball off or Hop, you know, any type of one on one situation, and so you're gonna get played differently when those two guys aren't are out there, that's for sure. What did Chase Edmonds told us the first week of his first training camp two years ago. This is for Kyler Murray, he said.

Kyler Murray's an extra blocker in the run game. Sure, because the defense asked to account for him running the ball. Yeah, no doubt about it, PAULI. But right there, what Cliff Kingsbury said, Make no mistake about it, when DeAndre Hopkins and Kyler Murray are out there. Let's just take d Hop by way of example. Right now, what do you think defensive coordinators? What do you think they prep for all week in regard to playing the Arizona Cardinals. What

do you think they do? Polly? What's job one when it comes to d Hop? Yes? No to the offense? Stopping the Arizona Cardinals offense. Well, first of all, you don't want Kyler Murray getting loose, right right. I would say that's good, But I would say stop DeAndre Hopkins. He's not going to. I mean, that is job one. Every defensive coordinator has got to account for the fact. Okay,

it's Kyler Murray. I understand that Kyler Murray and Kyler Murray running the ball, although he doesn't run the ball nearly as much this year, and thank goodness that he does not as we've seen in years past. Having said that, a defensive coordinator comes in and says, we gotta stop DeAndre Hopkins and that simplifies. That simplifies the defense for Cliff Kingsbury when he knows that's what it defensive coordinator is trying to do. It provides order when DeAndre Hopkins

is out there. It gives order to the Arizona Cardinals offense. And not only that, it gives order to the defense and what the defense is going to do because they're not just going to single up somebody on d Hop play after play after play. That's not going to happen. So that brings a little predictability to Cliff Kingsbury in the offense. Do you remember the last MVP in this town? I don't Paul the guy. Guy by the name, well, you can just call him two times Steve Nash. Remember

Steve Nash? I do remember Steve Nash. Do you remember the moment when he clinched the MVP award? It's when he was missing in mid January of that NBA season, when you saw what the Suns looked like without Steve Nash. I see, that's when you realize and appreciated the value. Hence the Most Valuable Player Award to Steve Nash based

on what we saw last week. Kyler Murray, if he truly is a leading contender for the MVP award, if he comes back this weekend, when he comes back, and if he's able to just pick up where he left off, to me, that fortifies and strengthens his case to be NFL MVP. It's a good argument, Paully, it really is. But Kyler Murray. I like what I'm hearing from Kyler Murray right now. I like the fact it's going to be his decision. I think we're gonna see Kyler Murray

on Sunday. This is just a gut feeling that I have, Paul. Nobody has told me this. I'm not playing reading the cards, so to speak, Polly, I'm not doing that. I will tell you right now. It's just a gut feeling that I have that Kyler Murray's gonna play, and I hope he does. My gut feeling is the Cardinals will play well on the road because that has been the norm this year. They are five and oho, the only team to score thirty plus points and allow twenty points or

fewer in every single road game. And Kyler himself was asked about, Man, what is behind the Cardinals road success. I just think, you know, the maturity in the locker room and guys understand, you know what we're getting on the plane to go do. And you know we've been challenged. You know, we've heard all the talk all the year, you know, before the season. I think the guys just you know, have taken care of business and you know they've been playing with a chip on our shoulder. There's

just something about the Cardinals on the road. Whether it's going to Tennessee and the challenge is stopping Derrick Henry, whether it's going to the Rams and eight no Sean McVay against the Cardinals everybody now, whether it's going to Cleveland without their head coach or going against the forty nine ers without their quarterback, there's something about this team. They're at their best. When you tell them, you know what their best isn't going to be good enough in

some of these road challenges. That's when we have seen their best football Yeah. You know what's interesting about it as well, Paulie. So much of the time talent talent in the Arizona Cardinals are very very talented offensively and defensively as well. But talent and intensity at home sometime isn't as acute as talent and intensity on the road.

Suddenly you're going into a strange village, Paul, You're going into somebody else's encampment, so to speak, by the river, and you're coming get it, You're taking over their village. You love it. It is a challenge. You know, everybody, the entire world is against you. You're going into foreign property, foreign land, a foreign kingdom and taking their king Okay, I'll come down. Well, okay, not nearly as dramatic a dance. Joseph today saying that home games have been a struggle.

We got to figure out. My point, Paul is, when you're on the road, man, the hair on the back of your next stands off, especially in Seattle. There's a reason they've won four the last six in Seattle. Jail

and Thompson is next. The Open Field Tackling edition of The Big Red Rage, presented by santan Ford and Gilbert Third Down on eleven on the arrows on a forty one Walker in the gun, A Kathin in the backfield with him, takes the shotguns that blitz coming pass away over the middle, and a diving intercept him by Tom said he gets up of the twenty five runs left

to the thirty and knocked down there. Jaalen Thompson with the pick all Math's Joseph point ahead and put seven guys on the line of scrimmage and bailed three of them on the snap trying to confuse PJ. Walker. The balls sailed on Walker and Thompson with a big time pick. No doubt as Jalen Thompson Wolf. If you go ahead and you check your stats, the second leading tackler on the team. You talk to some of his teammates, they'll tell you he's one of the best open field tacklers

in the NFL. And talk to some of the coaches, they'd say the same, Bubby yeah, and he talked to some of those same guys will also tell you, and we've heard this from a few guys unprompted by the way, that he's maybe the most underrated defender in the league as well. You just heard his second career interception. Jalen Thompson joins us on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert. Jalen, how you doing a number two? Where is the football? Do you just save interception number two?

By the way, Oh, of course definitely. I got him all stacked up in the house right now. Jalen, Man, thanks for joining us. Really do appreciate it. Talk a little bit about your season. How is your season going? How are you feeling about it personally? I'm feeling really well about it. Obviously I got some things I need to work on, but for the most part, I'm feeling feeling real good about the season and feeling like I need to finish strong. If we ask fans, heck, if

we just ask you, we got you. Where have you made the most growth? You think this year or maybe the last couple of years? Um, I feel like this year personally, I made the most squirrels. Just being confident going out there playing fast. I know what my job and I know what I'm supposed to be doing. So um, just me being intentional every day and going on the right I know I'd be fine. So pretty much, just

the confidence, I'll say, coming into this season. Did you have a specific goal in mind and would you be willing to share it with us if in fact you did. Definitely, Um, biggest goal for me this off season was just to get strong. UM. I feel like I needed to get a lot, a lot stronger, put on a couple of pounds, UM, so I can be able to play in the box a little more and do some of those things. UM.

Also helped with my tackling, as you guys mentioned. So, UM, that was just the biggest focus for me this offseason. And how did that go? Jalyn, Like, how much weight did you put on? If Anny, Um, I came in the season, probably I think I gained probably around like ten pounds, around around eight to ten pounds UM. And it's been going well so far. I can see it translating on the sale on game day, so that's always a plus. So you've actually gotten stronger as well in

the weight room. Oh, definitely, definitely this offseason was was a was huge for me. I feel like, um, just going in there every single day some uh sometimes even more than you know what I mean, two to three times a day and just going in there and do what I have to do, get stronger for this season.

You know, he had Zach Allen on what last month, right Wolf, and he said in his offseason because dance Joseph talked about that today, how much stronger Zach Allen is in his third year and how much of a difference that has made. And Zach Allen was kind of uncalled for, really, Jellen, to be honest with you, Okay, he put on some really good weight and then he reduced his body fat percentage. You know nobody, but he said a big thing for him was hot yoga. Did

you do any hot yoga this offseason? Man? Any hot yoga? But that's definitely something I can see Zach doing. Is that za exactly? That's great? It's do you have any unique training methods? I mean, is everything in the weight room you know, nutrition or do you do anything out of the norm? Uh? Pretty much not anything out of the norm. Um, definitely not any high yoga going there every day. I mean, just just the basic stuff. Nutrition was also a big thing this uh this offseason as well.

It's just um helping my weight get it up and you know, like I said, getting stronger and everything. So how much right now, Jollen, would you say you're absorbing this defense or has have totally absorbed this defense? How much do you feel super comfortable in this defense right now? Definitely, definitely the probably the most comfortable I felt in my football career. UM and a defense. So, I mean, I

know the ins and outs of it. I've been getting some extra working with my DV coaches to make sure I'm I'm on top of everything. But for the most part, that's just the biggest part is just um being attentional and knowing the little things so I can go in there and play fast. Who's making the calls in the secondary? Who is that? Is that Buddha making the calls or are you helping him make the call? Who makes the

call in the secondary? Um, it's definitely both of us. Um. Whatever we see, whatever check we need to make, we both echo it out and we both call it. And that's just the biggest thing. I feel like that's special with our defense this year is just the communication part. Guys are echoing calls and just you know, we're all on the same page for the most part. Imptant, you know, And we shouldn't point out that also part of the injury re port, we were talking a lot about Kyler

and de Hop. Obviously, Buddha Baker was downgraded today. He did not practice with what's listed as a heel injury. If he doesn't go in Seattle, And I know they'd be a big ball for Buddha because that's where he's from and in college you actually trained with some of the Seahawks dbs and how much he looks forward to playing that game and he's always phenomenal on the road at Seattle. But how does it impact your job if Buddha isn't in there jailin Um? I mean, I feel

like it doesn't impact my job too much. Obviously I'm gonna have to step up if he is down and and maybe you know what I mean, echo the calls a little bit uh more often than I would usually have to. But UM, I just feel like that's another part that's special about this team is that we got guys people are really really good, um and guys that are you know, that's just the biggest thing our coach is talking about is just no drop off, next person

up if that's the case. So I feel like we're we're all good and that in that in that way as a team. When when he says when Jalen says that he's now absorbed the defense and he can react right away. Right, it makes sense because he was a supplemental pick. He came in right before camp, didn't have a normal off season as a rookie, and then his second year was COVID. He didn't have any offseason last year. So I mean you were sort of behind the eight ball, right, Jial.

This is the first semi regular year you've had of your career, correct, Yes, sir, Yes, sir. And that's just uh And I have my hatstops and my coaches for you know, sticking around and helping me out, you know, the after practice and you know, just getting some extra work in. And that's been a big, big help for me, I feel like, in learning his defense and just feeling comfortable in it. What have you learned from Buddha baker Man,

Buddha's taught me a lot of things. Mainly he's been with the focusing just on the little things, you know what I mean, the stuff that's gonna take me from a great player to an elite player like him. So I felt like just those little things that he's teaching me to help me definitely, and I'm looking forward to trying to do those things. How about open field tackling, I mean, you guys are both so good. I mean in the ninety nine percentile of the NFL and open

field tackling. Is that just something you happen to have in common or is that something you guys work on. Did you pick up a few things from Buddha or vice versa. I feel like that's just something that we naturally just kind of have just in that to just get the football down. But definitely me seeing Buddha all these years, these couple of years I've been with the Cardinals, UM has definitely changed my look on how I needed to play and how I needed to go about things.

So I just seeing him and seeing how he does certain things on the field and is tackling UM, I know I got to step up and I got to make those exact same plays when they come my way. So that's just the biggest thing for me, is just uh looking at him and seeing how he plays and how hard he plays, and I know I gotta I gotta play just as hard. Jay Len, I I think you could be a pro bowler. I mean, at some point in your career, I think you've got the talent.

I think you've got the ability to be a pro bowler. Um, what do you what do you think is your strength? If you had to pick one thing, what do you think is your strength of the game in regard to playing safety. Um, I feel like I'm just an instinctual type of player, and I feel like that's something Buddha has as well. UM diagnosed exactly, We diagnosed the plays and we can and we can see girls something that we can see and just react to it really fast,

you know what I mean. So I feel like that's I feel like that's really one of the biggest strengths for me. And like you said, open field tackling and doing stuff like that, I feel like that's also a big part of my strengths as well. Byron Murphy had something to say about y'all get to that in a moment, open field tackle. Take us through an open field tackle. It's Sunday. Tyler Lockett catches a quick swing pass. Right, there's open space between you and Tyler Lockett mcgi is

lightning quick. What are you telling yourself? Well, how do you what enables you to make that tackle in space? Um? Really, just what we do in practice, And like I said, I know I keep bringing it up, but it's just the fact of being intention intentional with everything that we do.

So when we're in practice, we practice on tagging off on the hip every single day and that's just focusing on his hip and making sure that we got the right angle to make that tackle so that when we get in game day, it's just it's just you know what I'm saying. It's no thinking about it. We just react, like I said, So, Um, that's just the biggest thing is I feel like it starts in practice. Jaylen, talk to me about what you think happened last week against

the Carolina Panthers. What do you think happened last week defensively? Um, God, it was a lot of It was a lot of stuff that happened. Um. Obviously, we didn't start fast enough like we wanted to. Um. And that's just all our coaches teach to start off fast and and and in fast and in that same way. So I felt like we didn't start as fast as we wanted to. But I feel like we definitely play hard all the way to the end. So UM, credit to our defense for that.

All Right, Well, we'll see how the Cardinals respond in Seattle. Here's a Byron Murphy sees in you in your game and the growth overall. Because Byron Murphy was asked about Jalen Thompson today. He's funny because like sometimes when we're in the film room, we will watch a play like just can I get a call? Can I get a call? And we're just like j T, come on, bro, We're

just all laughing about it. But yeah, he's growing. It's just, you know, just saying those type of questions in the film room make you really think like he's actually trying to see what the other sex he's doing, so they're on the same page and all those little detailed things that we got to run in our defense. So it sounds like you're thorough in the film room. Is that what I'm taking away from that? Definitely intentional, intentional with everything that I do, Like what sort of question would

you ask? Like if we like, what sort of question would you be prone to ask in a film room session? Um, it's always different types of questions I'll ask kind of just playing playing around with the calls a little bit. It may be a guy that motioned I may at the room what do we do right here? Uh, just so that everyone's on the same page, you know what I mean, the communicate his own That's the biggest thing. I feel like if we're if we're all wrong, we're all right, even if we do mess up the call,

you know what I mean. So, Um, that's just the biggest thing is making sure they're all on the same page. What kind of confidence do you think you have inside that locker room right now? Um, I mean I have could have a lot of confidence, and I know the guys have a lot of confidence in me to get my job done as well. And that's just the biggest thing. Everybody being thorough every single day and trusting the guys next to them to be able to get that job. Now,

we're gonna talk about Seattle when we come back. We're going to talk about what has gone well against those two Pro Bowl caliber receivers, what has not gone so well when they face Seattle. We know overall the Cardinals have done real well at Seattle, having won four of

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audio podcast as well wherever you get your podcasts. We continue with a big red rage the roppolo back to pass rows over the middle behind the attendive receiver, and a diving interception at the five yard line. It's Jalen Thompson with a pick. I think Jayalen Thompson is just scratching the surface of what he could possibly become. Quick bro over the middle. It's broken up at the forty yard line, incomplete by Jalen Thompson. Made a good play

breaking on the receiver. You watched Jalen Thompson right there lined up in the slot. That was just what a quarter would typically do. The way you broke on that slam. You know, if you said it earlier, a potential future pro bowler. And if you've watched every snap of every game this season, you not people know exactly what you're talking about. Jalen Thompson, And think about it. He missed

so much of last year with injury. It's really his second year in so many ways, and just look at the playmaker he is and what a plus he's been for Vance Joseph and Jalen Thompson is our guest and the big red rage bit of a career montage right there. But you know what, you never took us through your interception against Carolina. I think it was third and eleven, as Wolf said, it was sort of a blitz bay all and three or four guys Rush seven or eight

went into coverage and take it from there. Jayalen, and how the interception came to be against Carolina, Man, Um, like you said, Uh, we're showing a pressure. Look guys bailed out. Um looking at the quarterback up eyes the whole time and seeing the ball come out. I just made a made a good play on it. But I

felt like it started in practice this whole week. Um. I stayed after it was on the jug a little bit, um, making sure that my hands were good because I knew I kind of felt like one was going to come this week and it came, so um blessed to have to have a second interception infl Jalen, how about this middle of the field or box? Which would you prefer? Oh Man, Um, I like being in the middle of the field, but definitely the box you see a little bit more action. So um, I mean it's it's it's

tough for me. I like playing both. I like playing both. Yeah, you're glad you don't have to choose right exactly? How often are you reading the quarterback's eyes? It may be a simpleton one on one question, but can you get away with that when it's a Russell Wilson or an Aaron Rodgers. Not too much with those guys. Those guys are really, really, really good quarterbacks. But those guys you gotta stay plastered on your man. You know, they can

make some stuff happen with their feet as well. So with those types of guys, you there's not a lot of room to do that with. You know, Jaylen, I don't have to tell you this, but as you know, the Seattle Seahawks are going to be a desperate team three and six right now. It's almost like, especially in the NFC, you can't afford to go to three and seven. There's a big difference between being four and six on the season and three and seven right now. You're gonna

get the Seattle Seahawks best, are you? Guys? Talking about that amongst yourselves. Oh, definitely are coaches that definitely made that have been known, Um that we are going to get their best and that from here on out, the weeks are not going to get any easier. So, UM, we're just trying to take a day by day and uh, you know, come out with that mentality that that we're going to get their best shot. So we got to

bring our best shot as well on game day. First shutout of Russell Wilson's career, that's seventeen nothing loss at Green Bay. Oh, give us a quick step. What are you telling Marco Wilson, for example, about Russell Wilson. He's a rookie, his first encounter with a Pro Bowl quarterback. Um, like I said, just stay stay plastered on your men, just do your job. For the most part, quarterbacks like like him and you know Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, guys

like that. Uh, there's no room for error. So we have to be, uh, be on our job and do our job, and I think we'll be okay. You've been watching tape obviously of Russell Wilson for the last few days here, talk to me about what you're seeing in terms of him pulling the ball down and running. Is he doing it as often as we've seen him doing the past? Um? I mean, I feel like he's still doing it a little bit. Um. But he has playmakers.

He has playmakers at receiver everywhere, obviously Tyler Lockett, obviously DK Metcalf and uh good tight ends. Um. So they have playmakers everywhere. So he sometimes doesn't even have to do that for the most part, but definitely when they need, when they need a big player, I know he will. He will do that. So, um, we have to be alert for that and have to be ready for that as well. Well. Here's Vans Joseph asked today about what he expects from the Seahawks offense. Watching him last week,

they threw forty passes that they had thirteen runs. Maybe that's not their formula, you know, So I'm expecting heavy run, you know, a heavy dose of Obviously Russell in in fourteen and sixteen and with Chris Carson back, I mean, that's a that's a tough big back. Tell you. Whatever Green Bay did defensively, it worked. Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf had five catches combined on six sixteen targets. Think about that guys, and then DK Metcalf at the end lost his mind, he got ejected, he tried to get

back on the field. And but you don't have Patrick Peterson this year, who has been very effective against DK Metcalf the last couple of years. You look at the last four games DK Metcalf against the Cardinals, he only has six catches on fifteen targets. So how do you

account for the absence of Patrick Peterson? And you know, Bayern Murphy talked about it today, but it's obviously a big question on Sunday, right Jalen definitely, I mean Patrick Peterson was definitely a guy that a great player to have on our team, and he did all the right stuff. But this year, I mean, we we have we have guys in our team that can get the job done as well. Marco Wilson very confident cornering in going into this season and I'm looking forward to see what he

can do this week as well. Byron Murphy, you know, he's been having a great season. So um, I feel like it's gonna be a good matchup, It's gonna be a good test, But I feel like if we do the right stuff, it shouldn't be a problem man. Watching those two receivers on tape, I can't imagine. I mean, these are guys who canna run, right do you? Who do you think is faster? Jay? Is Tyler Lockett faster? Or d K back at? I gotta go to I

gotta go with DK. I mean he ran that track meet and I think he ran like what ten ten four or something like that. I don't know. That's a big man running yard Jayalen, Yeah, year super Fa. Well, remember what Buddha said after last year's game. Buddha said, That's the first time in my life I've ever been caught from behind. So you don't But but other than that, he really hasn't done much. Now. Tyler Lockett just the

opposite Jalen. Uh. Those two games last year, Tyler Lockett had four touchdown passes and he had twenty four catches. So what has to change against Tyler Lockett this year? We just gotta lock in lock into our jobsism And obviously a guy like that is really hard to stop. So he's he's definitely gonna get his catches. But um, we just gotta we gotta try to make as best as we can to try to just do our jobs

so that best are of our ability. Jayleen's obviously you don't know what's going to happen on Sunday here, But what do you think they're gonna try to do to you guys? Defensively? What do you think they're gonna try to do? I mean, well, like like coach VJ said, I mean they threw for they threw forty passes last week and ran the ball with thirteen to fifteen times. I could see them trying to come out there and do heavy, heavy, random plays, you know what I mean.

But obviously we don't know what they had played, so, you know, but that's our job. We got to be ready for anything that they do. So I feel like we're well, we will be ready. You know. Maybe the only guy on the Seahawks roster who had a really good game against Green Bay was their star safety Jamal Adams. He had eleven tackles, he had a pick. I know he'd love to have his contract. Who wouldn't. How often do you study other safeties in the league, and maybe

do you follow Jamal Adams? I mean I look at safeties all the time. I look at just football all the time, and a lot of the safeties are really good. But it's like I said, it's good having a vet safety in the room right next to me in Buddha and a guy that's a all pro pro bowler and just you know what I mean, just top see one of the top safeties in the league right now. So I mean, I'll follow other guys and not seeing how

they're playing the game as well. But really, when you got a guy like that sitting right next to you, I mean, I mean, that's really the guy I look at for the most part. So talk to me about the Seattle Seahawks in terms of how they run the ball. What are you seeing on tape right now? Because I agree with you, I think the Seattle Seahawks are gonna try even though they've got DK back half, even though they've got Tyler Lockett. I don't think they're gonna throw

the ball forty times in this game. That's just me. But if I'm right on that, give me a little scouting report on what you're seeing in regard to the Seattle Seahawks and how they try to run the ball. I mean, great offensive line. M guys are getting pushed pushed back. They're pushing back defensive line. And you know, great backs, great physical backs. They run hard and they can make anybody miss. So we just got to come in there and just do our job. Carson will be

back this week. Great physical back as well, runs hard, So you gotta come in this week and really focused

on getting him getting him on the ground. After the Carolina game, and we're on board with Jail and Thompson, by the way, Cardinals stand out safety and number of Cardinals players talked about how the team was flat against Carolina, and I opened the show Jail and by saying, you know what, if you need a remedy for that, a road trip to Seattle is what the football doctor ordered, because you guys go in there and you know, just tell folks who've never been there, A visiting team just

gets amped up, do they now with all the noise and the twalls and just the atmosphere. Oh hey, yeah, that atmosphere is jumping all the time. I've been to a couple of games, a couple of Seattle game when I was in college at Washington State over there, so um, you know, they're always jumping over there. It's gonna be a hostile environment. It's gonna be a jumping crowd, So we just got to come out there and and lock in.

How does that work with you going to Washington State and Buddha being from Washington and Byron Murphy from you? I mean, seriously, what do you do you talk back to each other the entire day or what? Man? I mean, I can't really talk to mcbie. We hadn't been an end and I don't know how many years, but uh,

you know it's it's always my fun rivalry. Uh, you know, seeing those guys actually got to play against him when I was at Wazoo and just you know, seeing a way Buddha was playing when he was at you Dub was just insane, you know what I mean. Byron was playing insane against this as well. So, um, for those guys to be on my team now, I mean, it's

it's pretty cool, you know what I mean. Uh, the rivalry part of it kind of died down, but you know when that week, that rivalry week Wazoo and you do come up, you know we'll be right back at So did the Twelves cut you some slack because you know you're a Washington guy, or you the rival because you went to Washington State I mean lie down a little bit, definitely die down. All right, Well, I'll tell you what you can get your revenge through the Heckler

guy behind the Cardinals bench with all the signs. Maybe we'll sick him on on Buddha and Byron Murphy. Now, thank you, Jail. We appreciate it, Ti Man. Yes, I appreciate you guys for having me on right on, brother, thank you man. Great to having time. Oh my goodness, great, great, great guy to visit with, great guy to watch. I mean, what a pleasure to watch him play ball this year. Correct just getting better and better and better. And he's

not done getting better. He's continuing to grow. That's one of the reasons why I see Pool Bowl in the future. As Van shows have said, no Buddha, no jail in those six yard runs become twenty six. Right after this, 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. Just want to throw by Tyler Murray. I want a catch

by Nuke 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 to Murray and he keeps it himself, running left, got a defender with him at the five breaks it 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. Well. They split the season series a year ago, and fittingly the Cardinals and Seahawks. They seem to do that almost every year, although typically it's the road team winning at the other team's venue, as the Cardinals won four of their last six at Seattle. Seattle has won six of us last eight in the a Z. Kyler Murray going against Seattle. If he goes for the fifth time, would

you believe Ron Wolfee? This will be the nineteenth time the Arizona Cardinals have faced Russell Wilson since he came into the league, and since he came into the league, the Seattle Seahawks after a loss have the best win percentage in the NFL. So with Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll, they rebound. Now, that has not been the case so far this year. They lost two straight, they lost three straight. They're one and three at home. But you just saw a forty nine ers team that the Cardinals left oh

and four at home. And what they do they rebounded by Jack stopping the Rams the other night. Yeah, I know you're right about that, Paul. I really do under what we're going to see up in Seattle. I know this, Paul. I know that they are going to be a desperate team and there's no denying it. I mean, think about it right now, Paul, just say it out loud. Three and seven, four and six, three and seven, four and six. It just the difference is palpable, and especially when you're

talking about going up in front of the twelves. Here's Russell Wilson. You're desperate. You know that the Arizona Cardinals are coming in here on top of the NFC West. This might be your season, This might be your best chance to turn your season around. I think it's good. We were talking to Jayalen Thompson. He was telling us that these guys are talking to each other, meaning the players in the locker room are talking to each other in regard to this game and what you expect to

see from the Seahawks. They're gonna come out swinging Paul in all three phases because to me, they know this is their season. Pete Carroll has already started down this road, Paul, with some of the things he's been saying about the officials, in the officiating in the last game that they played, I think he's already trying to plow the road for

this game. You know. It's amazing. At three and six, they're only a game and a half out of the playoffs, right, so they're right there for that seventh and final playoffs spot, and now they go in. Here's the thing. But seven is three and seven, Bulls, that's a hard That is a hard road to hoe right there to get back in it. Absolutely. And the Seattle defense, okay, since Week four they ranked fourth in scoring d their top five and third down defense. Okay, Bobby Wagner is still among

the league's leaders and tackles. But this Seattle offense, especially in Green Bay Wolf, I mean, it was horrendous. The first shutout of Russell Wilson's career. He can talk all he wants about that finger and come out the surgery, but the stats are not kind as to how inaccurate he was, how he was overthrowing receivers and and they just got nothing going. Dk metcalf after the game saying, you know what, we got to get the ball to

the playmakers more. Well, you threw it forty times. Yeah, there were only eleven rushing attempts by running backs, which typically has not in Seattle's offense. Yeah. No, you're right about that, Pauli. And that a lot of that, I think has got to do with the fact they don't they're not in love with their running backs that they have back to there and Chris Carson. Of course you had to Pete Carroll talking about the possibility of him

returning this a day ago. He was actually talking about the fact that it doesn't look good now Chris Carson, and that really is a big blow to them because they don't have a back like Chris Carson. Paul So that Mike linebacker Jordan Hicks here was his take when asked about going against Seattle and Russell Wilson. We're expecting a dog fight. You know, anytime Russell's a quarterback, they always have a shot. They're getting Carson backs, so you

know they're gonna probably trying to run the rock. So you know, we're expecting especially defense, Lea, we're expecting it off. And it doesn't matter who you play. If you come out like you did against Carolina and you have turnover gets cashed in, another turnover gets cashed in, you fail on a fourth down and essentially another turnover, and you're

down three scores by the end of the first quarter. Yeah, look out, And you know better than anyone Wolf how that momentum can build in a can steam roll if you let the Twelves get into the game and the Seahawks give a little momentum, little confidence, something they haven't had, especially coming off the first shutout loss in a decade. It could get ugly. No, it could get ugly, no doubt about it, Paulie. But once again, you have to remember too, stop and think about it. The Green Bay

Packers ran the ball. They beat the Arizona Cardinals, first loss of the season for the Arizona Cardinals. And then, of course they watched the film of the forty nine Ers game. Okay, the forty nine Ers ran the ball eleven times, maybe, in my opinion, made a huge mistake not trying to run the wall. Guess what they lost the game, the forty nine ers. And then of course the Cardinals played the Carolina Panthers. They ran the ball.

Guess what they won the game. So to me, when you look back at the last three games the Arizona Cardinals have played, and that really typically is what any NFL team or opponent would do. Look at your last three games in particular, they're gonna see run the ball win, don't run the ball lose, Run the ball win. I think it's gonna be an easy decision. They're gonna have to try. Even with DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett, they're

gonna try to run the ball in my opinion. All right, you may have just answered the question I was going to pose because Vance Joseph said something today that was sort of cryptic, and he said, and I'm quoting loosely, we've figured out our formula as coaches to win. We've lost two, and both of those losses look very similar. As a coaching staff, we know what works well and what beats us. And again those two losses look very similar.

That's advanced. Joseph said, Yes, what do you think their takeaway should be as a coaching staff, what do you think the common denominator is in those two losses, man, Polly, honestly, the inability to stop the run? Yep, that right, Paul I would agree, that's what I think. It's got to be what he's talking about right there, just the inability

to stop the run. And I was really discouraged too when I saw a couple of forty fours out there, and you know the way I laugh when I see the four linebackers against thirteen personnel, one back, three tight ends, and to see that eight man box get gashed on a couple of those runs by Christian McCaffrey, that was heartbreaking. You weren't the only one, Zach Allen told the media after the game. He said, that was especially disappointing that we were in run defenses, We had run stopping fronts

out there, and they still got to the second level untouched. Yes, and he cited in particular a trap play that Carolina showed for the first time all year that they had not seen on film, and Zach Allen followed it up by saying we're gonna see that again. You don't see a lot of traps nowadays, Paul, so put that in to coach Double Rainbow put it in a trap play this week. Yes, I believe Paul to answer your question. You know what, more than anything else, Paully, it's got

to be their intensity level. They gotta be ready, they gotta come out, They've got to know what it is they're gonna face. It's gonna be a dawn fight. And well, I don't know what else is gonna happen in the game, but I feel pretty darn good after seventeen years going to Seattle and being on that Cardinal sideline. It is alive. As jail and Thomps said, it is popping on that Cardinals sideline when you go to Seattle, just the atmosphere alone. So I don't expect energy to be a problem, Paully.

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