Big Red Rage - Dimukeje Ready To Make Impact

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That was today's high temp, A new record for the day, Ron Walflee, as you sit there in your palatial studio in the A Sea. So that was the record set here at home. We're not going to talk about the record set on the road. What I am gonna say is less than one hundred would be the number of days until the Cardinals regular season opener at Tennessee Week

number one. Gott our pace ourselves do not get into a three point stance just yet, But man, are we getting closer and closer to you know what training camp which begets the preseason games, and all of a sudden you're in the regular season and you turn on NFL Network. In just this past week, you heard Nate Burilson say that if everything goes to plan with Julio Jones and Tennessee Titans will have quote, one of the greatest offenses of all time. Oh good, as Valey, I'm telling you

right now, I tend to believe that. I really do. And you know why, because of the play action pass. You can hammer the ball the way the Tennessee Titans will be able to hammer the ball with Derrick Henry in between the tackles. They love to go heavy personnel as well. They'll go thirteen personnel, They'll go ahead and go twenty two pair personnel. They'll put two tight ends in there, Paulli, two backs, and they'll hammer the ball. And yet they love to throw the ball over the

middle of the field with Ryan Tannehill. And that is Julio Jones time, So boom out of the gates. We're already getting into week one. We're just underway here on the Big Red Rage, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. We are Santan Ford, Paul kelvc Ron Moolfley, the original Thursday Night Football. So the rookies are gonna have to get ready for Ryan Tannehill, Derrick, Henry A. J. Brown and now Julio Jones. Not just Savan Collins, but our

special guest tonight. How about Victor Demokge gonna join us? Victor de Mucage. First of all, demokg the best name you could you could have maybe on the back. It just sounds like a football name, does it not. I'm hoping here's Cage, Paul, here's our game plan, the Wolf. As fun as it is to say Demo Cage. Maybe we'll earn the right to call him Vic by the end of the show. Maybe just maybe warned the right because those who know him best, uh, they're afforded the

ability you just call him Vic. I'm calling him Cage. I mean that's Cage. He's doing the opposite wall. Well, say right now, this guy, it's it's quick. You can't. I mean, Vic, it's his first name. I get it, all right, you're shortening Victor to Vic. I understand that, Paul. But we're talking about locker room rules here, and that means, you know what, Cage, what's up? Cage. We're talking about a guy, a graduator from Duke with a degree in

evolutionary anthropology. So what are you trying to say, Paul? So this guy he sucks to two sixty five Paulie, I really don't care what he went to school for, all right, Just tell me he's not a finance major. Yeah, but we're not playing ball here. We're having a conversation, So try and keep up a couple of ham and eggers like us, we could look bad pretty quickly. So okay, just what I'm saying is okay. So you know, the IQ difference will be stark and that'll be coming up.

But speaking of rookies on defense, did you catch Zavin Collins meeting the media this past week? As a matter of fact, I did, PAULI, Yeah, So what your thoughts on this? Well, you know, it's interesting because in some ways he's the point one percent of the world, right, he's six five, he's too sixty, he can run, he can play middle linebacker. He's gonna come in as a rookie and he's gonna start, and then he's just like

everyone else. When he can't find a house in this red hot real estate market, the young man says, the hardest thing he's had to do so far in his life is try and find a house in the Phoenix metro area in this housing market. Yes, for the real estate. Yeah, you know what. Honestly, right now I think about it, You're you're looking for a house. You're a rookie, Paul. You know I'm not listening. He's he's paid very well. Would you say he's paid well, Paul? I would say

that he's paid very well well. As people point out on Twitter, the eight million dollars signing bonus should probably go a long way towards purchasing sethouse. But it is a seller's market. He might want to rent for a year. So you know, there's pressure, Wolf, there's pressure to find the house. And then we're gonna hear from Zamon Collins here. There's pressure to perform immediately. What you have to do, Polly, is you have to read Forbes a little bit more Okay,

Forbes Magazine, I'm falling you, Polly. They're saying they're saying that the Phoenix market is going to lead the country over the next five years. Now, again, who knows, Polly if that's the case. But if if I am Zaven Collins, I'm buying a home, Paul, I'm going to buy a home and I'm going to sit on it. Okay. When we're starting to take financial advice from Ron Wolfley, it's officially time to hear from Zaven Collins himself. When I

say there's pressure, we're talking about the football end right now. Zavin. I love pressure. That's a lot of pressure. I love it. It's a good thing. It means people expect a lot out of you. With you know, being a high draft pick. People expect that. You know, it comes with it. You can't be a high draft pick and then not do anything, you know, So that's something that's that I look forward to, man, Polly.

I hope he really means that honestly right now, And there's no reason to believe that Zaven Collins does not. I hope he embraces that, because that's exactly what he's got to do. Polly, You've got to expect, you've got to embrace the pressure. Right. Tony LaRussa was famous for saying this, and it's one of the most cellient things I think I've heard in in the last decade. He was talking about how you've got to make pressure your friend.

You have to embrace it. And the guys that are good in pressure pack situations, for whatever reason, don't allow the outside influences, so to speak, to impact how they play. They embrace the pressure and make it their friend. And I think that's exactly what Zaven Collins has got to do. And look, he's not just a rookie. He's not just a starter from day one. He's calling the defense. I mean,

he's got the green dot. He's responsible for lining guys up. Now, Van s. Joseph did say he's going to remove some of the leadership responsibilities that typically could go with playing mic linebacker. He's outsourcing those to JJ Watt and Buddha Baker and those kind of guys. But you know, there's a lot obviously to process. Thank goodness for his sake, there is a preseason, but when it comes to regular season,

guess what that's gonna be. Unlike anything he's ever played that brand of ball, and he talked about that this week. You haven't really seen the true speed of the game yet. You haven't really seen you know, what guys do, how

guys are because it's been mostly a lower tempo. Trying to understand how all these moving parts work and how they benefit us, you know, situationally, as a MIC, Knowing that stuff is very important to give you know, alert, to give a heads up, tell guys what we're thinking right here, especially when I get the call in the on the helmet. So that's been kind of the curveball for me, is learning that stuff. But it's something that I'm getting a grasp on. Paulie, this is going to

be a tough goal. I'm just saying right now. You know last year how I was talking about Isaiah Simmons and the fact that you just can't move him all over the field. You just can't do that. I wanted to see the Arizona Cardinals slowly move Isaiah Simmons into the week side inside linebacker position and let him actually get his footing underneath him, and I will knock him off that paul I still believe this is a situation

where Zaven Collins is going to get roughed up. He's going to But what I love about this is Zaven Collins I think learns he learns from what I'm told. He learns quickly. He's got a great brain, and he actually learns from doing. And then, paul once you make a mistake, it's one of the best lessons you could possibly learn out on a football field. It is you don't forget it very soon after you get beat and suddenly it's a mark on you when you sit there and watch it on film and everyone in the room

is watching. You make a mistake that costs the team. Now, it might only be a first town that it costs the team, might be a touchdown, whatever it is. But Paulie, this is a situation where once again he's gonna get rough dump. It's just how quickly he's going to be

able to assimilate. And he admitted to the media he's already messed it up in rookie minicamp and in mandatory mini camp he's messed up entire defensive calls and they've had to stop the drill and go, you know, in seven on seven, And so that's going to be part

of the process. There's no doubt about that. But you know what, when Buddha Baker says on his own, unprompted out of nowhere, that the young guy at linebacker knows football, that gives you hope when a Buddha Baker brings that up, that they can tell already okay, he's got a chance here. Vance Joseph was asked about playing the two young guys Isaiah Simmons limited action a year ago no preseason, alongside

the rookies Avon Collins. Here's a Cardinals defensive coordinator. I think as a coach, you have to understand it's going to be some bad downs. But also on a flip side, it's gonna be played that those two guys can make that other guys can't make. It's our job as a staff mine, especially to put players first in scheme second, you know, and to let those guys unlock those bodies and just play. Man. I love that, Polly, I really do players first, scheme second, right. It's Paul, never forget that.

It's it's about the players. It's never about the play I should say, nay, I don't want to. I don't want to reduce play calling to some ridiculous level. I don't want to do that, Polly, but it's about the player and players making plays. You've got to let players

go out there and play fast and make plays. And I really think that is what Vance Joseph is going to do this year with these two inside guys, these guys that are learning, these guys that have huge upside, Polly, huge upside, These guys that I think are going to

make a lot of plays. Billy Davis. I love the fact Billy Davis was talking about deflected passes right Polly passes, defense and what he expects Zavan Collins at six five and Isaiah Simmons at six four to be able to get their hands on a lot of balls thrown over the middle. This is gonna be really interesting to watch

early on in the season. How many times have you brought up Patrick Willis and Navarro Bowman so many times already, Wolf that I think it's a drinking game over the frat house is at Asu Okay, that's how often you brought it up. And Vance Joseph brought it up on his own because he was on the Niners staff when Patrick Willis and Navarro Bowman got their start together. As two young guys, especially Patrick Willis starting right away as

a rookie, and what do you do. He's simplified it so they didn't have to think and they could play fast. And that goes for Isaiah Simmons as well. In fact, Isaiah Simmons has been asked recently here about his comfort level advanced. Joseph ste I would say, I've made very large strides with my comfort just being able to learn the system more. And this offseason I really focused in on, you know, tuning in to the fine details of multiple positions.

You're not taking it upon myself not to only learn in my position, but the people around me, just so I cannot only be another coach on the field and help people out, but as well as it'll help me play faster just knowing where everybody else is going to be. Oh, that's awesome, ding ning ning ding. We've got a winner right there, Paulie with Isaiah Simmons. And oh, by the way, he's actually going to have a full training camp and

maybe even a preseason. Can you imagine Can you imagine we're sitting around talking last year about Isaiah Simmons and how they're going to move him around and man, I just wanted to see him play weekside inside linebacker. And then you don't get preseason games to go out there and play that. What a nightmare scenario that was for a young inside linebacker. Thank goodness, Zavan Collins is going

to have a preseason. And what did we learn recently about Isaiah Simmons from Bill Davis, the inside linebackers coach that wolf Not only was he not just playing weekside inside linebacker, he was being coached up at six different positions a year ago. Think about that. Think about Isaiah Simmons. They used him in six different positions because there was a Devondre Campbell who at the time was a better option,

at least at the starter of the season. So to what degree are they going to streamline his job responsibilities and he can excel accordingly. We'll see about that. But we do know is Victor de Mukage is next the Cardinals sixth round pick. The comp is Marcus Golden. We'll see what he thinks about that. Next. On the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert we are santan Ford. I'm turning they get sacked. DUKGI Victor d McGee was another guy that adding a big, six strong

outside linebacker. I was excited about. He started every single game he played in college, and he was forty six forty seventh straight games. And Charlie Bullen and I, Quinn Harris and I we went to the pro day. The coaches start talking about this guy, and you know, they just light up the kids, all business. They see the alpha the group. I would actually use the word scary to describe him. So no one message with the guy. See you get that alpha personality with the Duke degree.

It's kind of rare. Man. What a great scanner report from Drew Griggson a few weeks ago, in fact, right after the draft here on the Big Red Rage presented by satan Ford and Gilbert, that's the Cardinals director of player personnel talking about the Cardinal's sixth round pick out of Duke. A starter as a true freshman, Wolf started all forty nine games he played in during his four year career. Finished second career most sacks all time in Duke history at a three and a half stack game

against Boston College last year. A semi finalist for the Ronnie Lott Impact Trophy given to the college defensive player who makes the biggest impact for his team on and off the field. You can appreciate that wolf as someone who got blowed up by Ronnie Lott more than once. And I covered Ronnie Lott, so I have the ultimate respect. It is all about you, presented by satan Ford and Gilbert and A. That is our intro for Victor Dimukag who joins us on the Big Red Rage. Victor, how

are we doing? I'm doing well. How y'all doing doing great? Victor? Really really appreciate you joining us right now. Talk a little bit about football, talk a little ball. What does football mean to you? Victor? Football means a lot to me. I started playing around the eighth grade. Didn't really know a lot about the sport when I moved from Nigeria. But once I started playing, you know, I fell in love with the game. Um you know, I have passion for the game, and um you know what it means

a lot to me. Right now, I'm just trying to play as long as possible. You moved from Nigeria with your family when you were eight. Actually it was kind of like a roller coaster. So um, I was born in Nigeria. I moved to North Carolina with my family around the age of three, went back to Nigeria around the age of five, and then me and my family moved to Baltimore around the age of eight. So, Victor, is there any football in Nigeria? Does anyone play football

American football in Nigeria when I was there? No? You know, I played soccer when I was younger, but I didn't know anything about football until I got here. You know, there's this stat I just gotta get to this because when you were drafted, we were talking about the Cardinals draft class and this stood out. You bench pressed two hundred and twenty five pounds thirty two times as a high school junior. I mean that's gonna be a typo. Is that correct? Victor? Yes? There, Yeah, I was actolutely.

I actually did more in high school than I did Um about Friday, I was. I was pretty strung coming out of high school. So Victor tells us, how did you get to Duke Um? Yeah, So my freshman year I went to Newtown High School, which is a small public school in Baltimore County. UM and then like um, um boys let in high school and m Baltimore reached out to me, which is a private school. Um, a procedures private school known for their academics. Um. So I

spent three years there once I transferred there. You know, I had schools like Harvard, Duke, Notre Dame, like all the big schools, and also like some of the football schools, and the ABC in Big Ten reached out to me. So, um, that's really how I ended up at Duke. Um, you know, just the academic piece for my high school, UM kind of helped me get into Duke. We're just a couple of ham and Eggers here, Victor. All right. So so when you graduate with a degree in evolutionary anthropology, how

demanding was that? Oh man, it was tough. Um my freshman year, I had to I had to learn quick because trying to balance um, you know, academicals to a football starting as a true freshman. Um. You know, it was definitely tough my freshman year. But um, that time went on, you know, I was able to like play faster, um, learn how to take care of my time wisely, and just know how to balance everything. So Victor, why did

you choose Duke personally? Um? You know, after talking to my family and my mom and dad, you know, they made a lot to me, and you know, they kind of hasked me to go there. And also, you know, I felt like Duke was the best place for me. Um. I liked the defensive scheme and they kind of offered the best of both worlds when it comes to academics and football. Um, of course football last whatever. So I

felt like Dude was the best place for me. UM, not only thinking about my my NFL career, but also like at the football if I chose to go back to school, I felt like I wouldn't want that degree to do whatever I want to do after playing football. So what was it about the defensive scheme that you liked so much? Victor? Um? You know, just um talking to coach Albert, my defensive line coach. Um. You know,

I just liked how I fit into the defense. You know, we were at a tad style defense, you know, get off the ball, you know, getting your defense, single care defense, and UM, you're not kind of like how I fit in that system, and you know they had the good plan for me coming in, So I felt like that

was the best place for me. Let's talk about why the Cardinals chose Victor Demo KG and let's go back to that conversation we under the Big Red Rage right after the draft director of Player Personnel Drew Grigson and Wolf you're chopping it up with him. At one point, you guys were talking about the Cardinals sixth round pick, who's six two two sixty two, Drew Grigson. He's gonna be a hard, charging ball and muscle for us. He just plays a relentless motor. Reminded me of Marcus Golden

when I watched him. So I'm excited that he's got a great last name. When you think about a dboo KG, it just get us out really good, look good on the back of in Jersey. Tough to figure out, you know, when you're first looking at him, me just call him Vic. There you go. True. So let me ask you, Vic, if we can call you that, uh, Marcus Golden, do you agree with that comp? Now that you've seen Marcus Golden, at least in the mandatory mini comp mini camps, what

do you think about the comp? Marcus Golden, He's a great player. That's actually one of the guys I've been around um through our ots and mini camp. You know, I've learned a lot from him. Um, he's a great leader, and I actually like knew about him when he was coming out of college. Um, I've watched a lot of them, and he's a great player. He plays with a lot of effort. Um. You know, it's like he's a he's

a guy that you respect. When you put on the stape, you see one hundred percent effort, You see that motor, you see a relentlessness, and UM, you know that's that's a great comparison because honestly, Um, he's been in the league for while, he had some good seasons, and um, he saw what he did once he got to the car last year. So you know, just learning from him, trying to get as much knowledge as I can from him, you know, that would take me a long way. Victor,

you were drafted in the sixth round. Did you expect to be drafted in the sixth round? Honestly, Like with the draft, I already knew how that went. You know, you really never know where when you're gonna get drafted. You know, anything can happen. So I knew I was gonna get drafted like between four through six somewhere around there. But I didn't really try to focus on that I just tried to just you know, enjoy the time with my family and whenever my name was called, you know,

just embraced the moment. You mentioned Marcus Golden. What about Chandler Jones. Have you had a chance to interact with Chandler? I know he wasn't into Mini camp and maybe in some of the Zoom meetings or some other meetings around the facility. And you know we talked to Zach Allen, Cardinal's defensive lineman. In his time at Boston College, he would study tape of JJ Watt and now he's sharing a position room and getting text messages from JJ Watt.

So I'm curious to what degree had you studied Chandler Jones over the last few years, just as one of the premier sprushers in all the land. Well, now that's a guy. Yeah, I started a lot of talent Jones. You know, he's been doing this for years. Um, he averages around like ten sacks a year. So I've kept up with him. Um, he's one of the best at what he does. And UM, I've actually interacted with him on Zoom calls and I met a one time in person.

So UM, just having that guy in the room. You know, that's a guy, that's another guy can learn a lot from him, you know. Um, you know I could pick his brain. Um, And I definitely look up to him. You know, he's done a lot in this league, and um, you know I hopefully hopefully get doing that. Victor. Do you like playing over a tight end? Do you like that? Do you prefer the open side or do you like playing over a tight end? Honestly, I like doing both. Um. I feel like I could do both. I could play

the sam and the will. Um. I've been learning both since I got here. So I feel like whenever, you know, whenever my number is called, whenever it's time to go in, wherever the coaches want me to fit in or want me to play, I feel like I'm to play. Do you feel like you can hold up at the point of attack on the end. Do you feel like you can set that edge Victor? Um? Actually, I feel like

that's one of the things I do really well. Um. I feel like I'm I'm violent at the point of the tech and you know, I'm very you know, I have a motor. I know how to send the edge. Um. You know, it's all about get the ball and having great hand placement, and I feel like I do a really good job with that. We're on board with Victor Demo, KG the Cardinals sixth round pick, and and a guy that Charlie Bolling, the outside linebackers coach. He really had

a big affinity for you. Drew Grigson mentioned that as well. Tell us about how YouTube connected and did you get a sense in the evaluation process that you know, what, if I'm gonna go anywhere, the Cardinals might be one of those teams just based on Charlie Bolling and how bullsh she was on you. Um. Yeah, the Cardinals is actually one of the first teams I actually met with, like, um, most of the coaching staff. UM. I think this was around January, and then I really didn't like keep on

contact or we didn't really talk as much until Pro day. UM. So when coach Bulling showed up the pro day, we had at me end the day after Pro Day, and like I didn't really know that, you know, I was, I was on their radar, So I really didn't know a lot about Arizona. UM. And then just when I got the call, I was ecstatic because you know, I didn't I didn't really know that Arizona, like Arizona was actually looking at me. I didn't know what they suspect.

So once I saw that Phoenix number on my phone, you know, I was so excited, um, because I know coach Bling is a great coach, you know, just them zoom calls I had with them and just the interactions I had with them at Pro Day. You know, I was excited to, you know, just play for a coach like that. Victor. Where do you think you can actually contribute? Where can you play on special teams? Um? I feel

like I could play all four? You know, Um, as a rookie, you want to come in and make an impact however possible on the defensive side of the ball or you know, punt, punt return, kickoff, kickoff return. I feel like I have to. I have to, you know, put in some work and get out at a special teams possible, and I feel like I could help him an all four. Yeah, I'm sorry, Victor. How much how much did you play in transition on special teams at Duke? Um?

I played kickoff. I played a lot of kickoff um and kickoff return, and then UM my senior year, I played more like punt and punt return more like more punt return like blocking and rushing the punter. Um. You know that was more of my role senior year, but earlier in my career I played more of like the kickoffs, kickoff return side. Yeah, you totally have experience playing on special teams, Yes, sir, Yeah, that's good man. That's gonna help you big time. Bro. How about J. J. Watt?

Give us some first impressions. What you see in your takeaways from number ninety nine. Oh yeah, he's he's different. You know, you see, um, you see how he works. You see how he's different when he walks in the building. You know, he's a well he's aware of respected guy. You know he puts in the extra work. Um in the training room, you know, um in the weight room. He just he's he's a pro. He Um, he's a definition of a pro. He does everything the right way.

And UM, you know I actually got some actually work with him after one of the mini cam days. You know, I would just able to learn pick his brain, to learn some stuff from him. You're doing different drills and I'm just seeing like what he does to like or like what he did to like get him to the position he's at today, and you know, just being around him,

you know, makes me better. And you know, that's another guy on this team that you know, I have to get to know and like be around because I hopefully wants to be as good as done one day. And you know he wears ninety nine. Obviously you wear ninety two. For wolfing myself on this show for five years, our player host was Bertrand Berry, who wore number ninety two at a Pro Bowl season two thousand and four fourteen and a half sacks, and he's now one of our

Cardinals broadcasters. He was on the Red Sea Report and Victory was asked about you wearing number ninety two. Bertrand Berry b train, if you're going to wear that number, you better be able to get after quarterback In the years, I don't want people riding the pine with the number ninety two. That number is not to be on the sideline and soaking up gatorade and all that kind of stuff. It's meant to be out there on the field, getting

after quarterbacks and making big plays. It's associated with greatness and handsomeness. So if you're going to wear that number, you better be good at what you do, and you better be a good looking stud. So so there you go. There's your if you're wondering what your goals are this this year, your rookie season, Okay, you gotta play good, you gotta look good. According to Bertrand Berry, I feel like I got the good looks already. That's good. See

you're you're already halfway there. You know, you got that self confidence that you know you looked apart, like just like beat Train always knew he looked apart, right, it was it was the cleaner, fresh look, right Wolf, that's always used to say, right about that? So Victor, have they told you how they're planning on using you? Van's Joseph? I mean, is it just gonna be edge edge edge all the time? Um? Honestly, Um, you know, I really,

I really, I'm not really sure right now. Like once I got here, we just started learning plays um learning about the same and the will position is um learning stuff on special teams, so like right, no, they just want me to learn to playbook and then after training camp Bussey from there. Are you still in Phoenix? By the way, are you still in Arizona? Yeah, I'm actually in Chandler, right now, yes, nice. So what'd you think of one hundred and eighteen degrees today? How you handling

the big heat? Dude is way different? You know, I have to drink more water. I'm trying to get you through it. I haven't been around anything like this before. But I mean it's a great weather though, so I can't complain. Victor. We look forward to meeting you in person, big guy. Thank you for joining us. Really appreciated. Thanks, Victor, Yester appreciate you. Guys him there you go. You know something tells me just at first reaction, first takeaway. Yeah,

it's a complex defense. But considering his academic credentials in that conversation, I'm guessing he's picking up the defense pretty quickly. He's all and if he's playing able to play special teams, guess what he will see the field. There's no doubt about it. We continue with a big red rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert 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 hot. He caught dockdown with one second leapt I can't believe it. You gotta be joking me. Hopkins reaches off with three defenders around him. Head polls it in head. The Cardinals lead at thirty two to three. Quit a second left, cand cover Duke, You're not gonna

be the cover room. Throw the ball off. Multiple headlines, screamed play of the NFL season, the play of the NFL season and guess what you can speak and boat that into it existence when you vote the Hail Murray for best Play the twenty twenty one SPS ESPN dot com slash SPS to cast your vote. The game winning forty three yard touchdown with two seconds to play against three Buffalo defenders. Upgoes of football, down comes DeAndre Hopkins. That's how it sounded, Wolf and Dave Pash on the

Cardinals Radio Network. This is the Big Red Rage, presented by santan Ford and Gilbert and special thanks to Victor Demo KG. Think about it, Wolf, The biggest moment to start camp is always when they go full contact, full pads and here we go, oh line against de line? Am I wrong? Yeah, Paul, No, you're right about that. Absolutely.

Let the fur fly. And think about some of the matchups, right, DJ Humphreys against Chandler Jones, JJ Watt against Justin Pure Brian Winners, A Lecky Foe too against Rodney Hudson making his debut. You got a Victor dmu kg, Marcus Golden going against Kelvin Beecham. Think of some of the heavyweight battles and the match up you're gonna get when they finally put on the pass. This is one of the things that I'm really looking forward to, Paully. Obviously, a

training camp, won't that be nice? Paul? A training camp where we can actually watch these guys go out and ball out right, We actually can walk around and watch some practice once again and just absorb the physicality of training camp. And Victor de Mukg is a guy that I'm very, very interested in. I loved our conversation with him. But PAULI here's a guy who's six two. He's really not six two, he's just under six to Paully, Okay, but you're six two and you're two sixty five. Yeah,

a ball of muscle. Indeed, I mean wolf when you asked him if he can set the edge, I mean I wanted to blurt out, he's six two two sixty five. I mean that's a rhetorical question. Wolf. Of course he can set the edge. Steve, this is exactly why you're on the sideline ball and you're not in the booth, all right, because you listen, PAULI just because you're six two two sixty five, you could have a heart of butter. I mean seriously, there's just because you're a big guy.

I can't tell you how many big guys I've seen out on the field. Soft is butter. And by the way, oh my goodness, when you ran into one of those guys, you tormented him the entire game. Well look, this guy is not soft, this butter. That's my point. Yeah, the

Cardinals have upgraded. I think we would agree in the trenches and that was definitely an area of improvement that Steve Kim targeted, whether it's a Rodney Hudson or a JJ Watt, etc. But the question we debated recently was which position group is poised for the biggest improvement from last year to this season? And you know what I

threw out there, Wolf would wide receiver. Wide receiver, because unless your name was DeAndre Hopkins, when it came to yards after catch, your first name was Jack and your last name was squat. They got a lot of nothing out of anybody not named DeAndre Hopkins. And so now if you're putting aj Green out there, and he's outside, and that sends Christian Kirk back inside, and now Rondel Moore is being addited. Right, So you have all these guys, and a number of these guys are improved deals last

year of their contracts. I just think you're poised to get a lot more production out of that receiver room. Agree or disagree, No, Polly, I listen. I think you're right on that. I do. I would say cornerback. I'm looking at cornerback and I'm looking at wide receiver. I think you're right on the wide receiver thing, if in fact you're talking about an upgrade. But a lot of that is because I still believe Christian Kirk. Something happened

at Christian Kirk last year. We've talked about it all offseason, Polly, but something happened to him. If you go back and you look at the first eight games of twenty twenty, go back and look at it, Paul. It was completely different than the last eight games, and I want to know why that is. He had a six game stretch where cumulative totally had one hundred and forty five yards receiving. Yeah,

he just he disappeared. Disappeared, Polly, exactly right. I expect bounce back, all right, What do we expect out of a jan I think that's one of the big questions. There was a national football guy who stole my take that AJ Green is poised to become the NFL comeback Player of the Year, which of course I stole from former Cardinal and his former Bengals teammate Frosty Rucker. In fact, let's go back to the Big Red Rage earlier this offseason. Here's Frosty on AJ Green. Well, I think AJ Green

has a lot left. I think his time was just up in Cincinnati, playing on turf, practicing on turf, and you know, subzero temperatures and December and things like that. I think it was his time to break loose of that. He's Pro Bowl player, top of the game, a guy that could really go up and get the ball. Great teammate, never anything bad about him. The receiver group is just getting stronger, and if AJ gets enough footballs, this year.

He may just be comeback Player of the Year. Your reaction, well, you know what, Paul. Honestly, Aj Green, I think a change of scenery is going to do him so much good. I really do. A change is here's a guy, Paul, he's a seven time pro bowler. Paul, would you say that is the consummate professional right there? Do you think

he was sick and tired of practicing outside? They don't have an indoor practice bubble in Cincinnati, so they practice on the turf and the subzero temperatures for like two months of the year, right, Paully, And again, yeah, I think that will be It'll be nice for him coming out here and actually playing in a little bit of heat maybe and actually doing it on natural grass, practicing on absolutely all of that. But I think more than anything, just a change of scenery is going to up the

intensity level. It's going to reintroduce the game, so to speak to him, because here's a guy that has just been the consummate pro. He's been a seven time pro bowler once again, a guy that I think is a future Hall of Famer, and now all of a sudden, he's got everything's gonna be new to him, Paul, Everything is gonna be new. The entire day is going to be different for him, and that can really hit the

reef rush button for a lot of veterans. Plus think about it, he had the lowest percentage of catchable passes thrown his way last year from three different Bengals quarterbacks. So he's gonna have the accuracy of Kyler Murray. He's also gonna be two years removed from the foot injury, and maybe most importantly, he's not going to be the number one focus of secondaries because DeAndre Hopkins is going to be the guy drawn the double team. To what

degree does that free up and aj Green? And then if you add a Rondelle Moore as a guy who's really reeking havoc. In fact, Cliff Kingsbury was asked about his second round rookie. He did a lot of it in college. You can look at the film and I thought, coach problem there produted a tremendous job getting on the ball and all sorts of different creative ways, and that was certainly one of them. But he's very good in

the open field and making the first guy miss. He has a knack at you know, some of those plays. So yeah, I mean, he's gonna be a guy that's gonna be fun to try and draw stuff up for and see how many times we can get it to him. And the specific question Wolf was on him being are with jet motions, some of the jets sweeps and really being that I candy to distract defenses. Yeah, and that is going to distract defenses. There's no doubt about that. Look, everybody,

it's five to seven. Here, it comes, it's five to seven. Oh, by the way, four two nine is what this guy can run. And yeah, there's no doubt. I think that it's going to have an impact on this offense in twenty twenty one. But Polly, more than anything, it's not the horizontal to me, and I've talked to you about this.

It is the vertical to me. If you tell me that rondel Moore can run by people and attack a defense downfield vertically and that's going to open everything else up horizontally, that is to me going to be the key to Rondelle Moore and his success. Attack vertically, I agree, But if you can get the ball to him in space, yes,

his rep is that he's gonna make you miss. Yeah, there's a stat out there that nobody made the first tackler miss more in college football in the past decade then Rondelle or in twenty eighteen when he had his only full healthy season at for doing, by the way, was a consensus all American as a true freshman. Right, But if he's gonna run by it, that's gonna make you, as a dB back off shut and when you back up,

now the horizontal stuff comes into plood. All right, we continue with the big red rage presented by satan Ford and Gilbert. We are satan Ford pass over the middle by Sims at the forty five and dumped immediately by Murphy. Job right there by Murphy and mand cover. Iron Murphy really growing throws it end zone near side, broken up by Murphy. Was there against Taylor if Iron Murphy one on one in the back of the end zone made

a play on the ball. Here it is fourth and five of the nine ers on the sixteen of the Cardinals Garoppolo. The pass throws to the right side and complete. Murphy steps in front of the receiver and knocks the ball down. The Cardinals takeover on downs with thirty three seconds ago Byron Murphy makes a play on the pig. All that is big time. What a play by Byron Murphy. It's number seven now. By the way, wolf when you watch Byron Murphy out of the field, you gotta tell yourself, okay,

Buddhist number three, Isaiah Simmons is number nine. There's James Connery's number six, Chase Edmonds number two. Call him deuce. He likes that. So there you go, number seven Byron Murphy. Yeah, paul Ay, that is gonna be really really different man that we're definitely gonna need a roster when we walk around training GAMP. That's right. I better have a spotting board ready to go for the preseason games just for

the Cardinal's own players. The way they've changed numbers, it is a big red rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Paul KELBC, Ron Wolfley and a Cardinal's secondary. That's intriguing. I mean, there's the potential of what could be. There's also a lot of unknowns. I'll make one definitive statement, are you ready for this? Ron Wolfley? Not relieve, but go ahead? Byron Murphy. I think we would agree, and we agree on very little in life and football, but

Byron Murphy will hit you, will he not? Yes, he will. He cannot afraid to tackle, and he's very good at it. Malcolm Butler had over one hundred tackles last year for Tennessee Al football. Yeah. I mean you talk to guys about Malcolm Butler like, oh, he'll fight you now, Okay. And then Robert Alfred, would you say he's a physical corner might be the biggest dog on the team. Okay, just saying, okay, saying nobody's gonna believe me. Oh he

has a played wolf in two years? Right, Hey, listen, you watch Robert Alfred in training camp, and you tell me who's a dog. So here's what I'm saying. The Cardinals have the hardest hitting group of cornerbacks in the NFL. I see where you're going, The nastiest, most physical group of cornerbacks in the n about. My question to you is how much does that get you? That in a

corner gets you a cup of coffee? I mean, how how valuable, how imperative is it to have corners so you can hit and tackle and willing run force, et cetera. When you've got guys like Chandler Jones and JJ wat Paul. You know what, honestly, I love that because you can take those corners, you can walk up, you play press man,

you can jam, play press man. Try to try to jump these wide receivers right from the line of scrimmage and then hope that your defensive line and your box players, of course, will be able to get home and get that pressure on a quarterback. If you can jam a receiver and not allow him to get off the line quickly and get a clean release, now, all of a sudden, PAULI that pass rush becomes that much more effective. As I tell you, you watched the corners Malcolm Butler. Obviously

he's proven. Robert Alford, Buddha Baker said, and this is a loose quote. He said that Robert Alford has been out here locking stuff up. And so I mean, okay, so I've been a surprise to you. Though, no, no, not at all. We don't see him man, if he can only stay healthy. And I know everyone's tired of hearing that, but it's the truth. And it's not like he's coming off some horrendous knee injury like a Tyrn Matthew. He had a torn peck. Yes in the year before that,

he had a fractured leg. So I mean, these are these are injuries you can easily come back from and it won't impact your game theoretically. Now he's a little bit older obviously, and it hasn't played a full season and since twenty seventeen, so you have that. Yeah, Malcolm Butler, but those aren't the guys that Vance Joseph started with. When he was asked about his cornerback room, I think it starts with Murphy, you know. I mean, he's been the main stay for three years, but he's played a

lot of snaps and you can see it's growth. He's so much more comfortable. He's going into his body, he's working, he knows the system. He can be a special player for us, and he can be one of our better players on defense. Right when I heard Vance Joseph say that, Paul, I gotta tell you I was jacked off. I was. I mean, honestly, Byron Murphy is where he started. You got a couple of dogs and Malcolm Butler and Robert Alford guys at once again. Yeah, I know they're a

little long in the tooth. I understand that. To Malcolm Butler last year didn't have the kind of Malcolm Butler year until maybe the last six games of the season. But still Malcolm Butler when you take his body of work, when you take Robert Alfred's body of work before the last two years, I mean, these guys are good starting corners in the National Football League. And he starts with Byron Murphy. So once again it's just you don't know

exactly where you're gonna get in that corner room. That potential is there, but there's a big question mark on Robert Alfred Malcolm Butler. Which guy is he based on last year? You're right, it was an inconsistent season for him. If you talk to folks, you know Byron Murphy, if he's ready to take that next step, what does that mean? And then you watch the two rookies and I tell just the visual of a nearly six foot one Marco Wilson with all that athleticism, who's able to play inside

and outside. Advance Joseph Race about a guy who started from day one as a true freshman at Florida and he's gone against SEC receivers for four years and he knows all these different schemes. And then Tay Gallen who's over six one as a corner, just the size and the athleticism. If you hit on one of those two rookie corners, then you know what, that's no longer an area of concern your secondary. Yeah, now you're right, Pauli.

It's the rookies overaull that I find fascinating as well. Obviously, Zaven Collins is going to play and hold onto your butts. That's all I'm going to say right now. And that's not an attack on Zaven Collins at all. It's just an acknowledgement of how difficult it is to come in from the college level into the National Football League and master a defense, master defensive schemes, and master calling defenses and going out and playing when you're a mic linebacker.

It's a difficult proposition. Having said that, once again, it's going to be fascinating to watch Zaven Collins. Rondel Moore is going to play a lot. I would imagine Marco Wilson to your point, and maybe Tay Gowan. I think Victor de Mucagee, the guy we talked to tonight. It's going to be interesting to see where he falls on this team, and if in fact he can make the fifty three man roster, bully, and if he does, he's

gonna have to play special teams. All right. So, as you wrap up this edition of the biggerd Rage, Wolf, I know you count on me to bring you two areas you need, one a prop bet and too a power poll. I'm out of here, Paul prop bet right now, the most popular bet for twenty twenty one NFL MVP is Baker Mayfield the most. The highest percentage of cash being put on a single player to win NFL MVP

is being wagered on Baker Mayfield. Okay. And then you had from next Gens stats, which NFL offensive line was the best and the worst at limiting pressure in two twenty Number one in the NFL at limiting pressure preventing hurries the Arizona Cardinals. How about that? Oh we all know the Cardinals offts on Lineman Cad Blay special thanks Jim, i'mandro on vacation, Jeff Darge, Cody Fincher, forn Mull play

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