Big Red Rage - Edmonds Leads Solid Ground Game

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very special guest for a reel. Here in a minute in Seattle, Ron Wolfley, the Seahawks are hosting the Rams and behind the mic on a national radio call, Moonlighting your partner of many years voice of the Cardinals day Pass in Seattle as we speak, really Dave, really, I mean as a guy over here with an eye at the end of his name, who's going to devour some homemade pasta after we're done. As they say in the mafia.

For that, we do not forgive. And that is my message of day Pass tonight, as we'll see exactly how that goes between the Seahawks and the Rams. Very very interesting right now, PAULI, because too high power offenses of course, with Russell Wilson and then Matthew Stafford in the Los Angeles Rams, and it's zero zero right now. They've traded picks.

Matthew Stafford actually threw a pick into the end zone, and now all of a sudden, Russell Wilson has obliged as well, just throwing a pick right now, Paulie, who knows what's going to happen. Well, Russell Wilson leads the NFL and passer rating a buck thirty, and if he doesn't play to that level every single game, Seattle is gonna lose. That's what I have to say. I still take the Rams and I'll give six in this one round. Hopefully. So that's my pick here tonight as the Rams do respond.

I think McBay is like three to one on Thursday nights. But you know what, last we saw the Rams. Their fans were leaving in the middle of the fourth quarter. It was thirty seven to thirteen, and the Cardinals players are on the sidelines and they were giving it to the Rams fans. Where are you going the game's not over? Well, guess what it was over. It was thirty seven to thirteen. It was beat down LA and they had to go out there like Dodger fans in the seventh inning and

just be traffic because it was over. No, you're right, Pally,

it was over. What a game that was for the Arizona Cardinals right now to be four no, the only undefeated team of course in the National Football League, and to beat the team at that point in time that I thought was the best team, not in the NFC West, but the best team in the National Football League period, and just coming off a victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, of course, a steady solid victory over the Bucks and their offense, their defense clicking on all cylinders for the

most part. But there was one little hanging Chad when you watched the Rams on tape, and that was the fact that defense, their defense were giving up. Their defense was i should say, giving up a lot of yards out of the field in between the twenties polli and then they would jump you. While we saw the Arizona Cardinals move the ball, and we kind of had this feeling that we were going to be able to move the ball. But how well would we do in the

red zone? That was the question and I had and sure enough, three or five in the red zone, and the Cardinals got to win the Sports Illustrated Power Bowl. This is a true no compreendo. The Rams beat the Buccaneers, then the Cardinals went to La and beat down the Rams dominated them. And yet the Rams are still number one at this point and the Sports Illustrated Power Bowl with the Bucks number two and the Cardinals are number five. It's just, I mean, just just stop, just just please stop.

We don't have time to get into a rant on that front. Speak into the game and what the Cardinals did against the Rams and all the offensive numbers Kyler Murray after the game, Ron Wolfley, I want your thoughts on his comment here. There's game plan enough, you know, if I think you know personally that we've had since I've been in the league. So I was I was just confident man, just going out there, and Leonard Rod

and the guys did the same. You know, I can't be more proud of them as far as being four, no trying to you know, go one on each and every week. Why would he say that after that game? I have two theories, but I hear what you think, well, PAULI maybe he was just trying to compliment his coach. Maybe he was just trying to be positive right there and compliment his coach and say, you know, I felt like it was the best game plan that we've had so far. Maybe was not trying to accentuate the fact

that maybe the other game plans weren't as good. Maybe he was just trying to say, this was the best one and it was a big game, and I love the game plan, and I think coach did a great job. Maybe he was just trying to compliment Cliff Kingsbury on that. Maybe, And we're gonna ask Chase Edmonds because Chase Edmonds is a very special guest here tonight on the Big Red Rage, and obviously he's intimately involved with this offense and he knows Kyler very well, so we'll get his thoughts on

this my theory. And it's twofold. Number one, what do you say after the Minnesota game when he said we need to move de Hop around and we just see a little bit more that against the Rams. Number two, Chase himself said after the game that Kyler had one designed run. One. Yeah, and we know Kyler considers his legs a luxury. Yes, he doesn't enjoy the design runs, so the fewer the better, perhaps hence his liking of that particular game play. So he was sending a Sicilian

message to Cliff Kingsbury that were saved. BOLLI, then you know what, Hey, listen, I love this game. But listen, just tell me it's not the fact they actually put him under center eight times. Okay, Paul, tell me it wasn't that, because to me, that once again is the area of this offense that needs to continue to grow. Totally agreed. And the game before he was under center ten times, mostly mostly in the red zone. You know,

James Connor loves it when he's under center. We talked to James Connor about that, so you know, look, Cardinals are fourn No, We're going to get into an offense that right now is defined tendencies. If you're the defensive coordinators in this division, what exactly are you trying to track? What are the trends when you have a half dozen guys between fifteen and twenty catches, for example, you have a balanced offense. It's just ran for two sixteen. For

everything the Cardinals did against Raheem Morris. I say rhee Morris was driving home down the four or five after the game, just muttering to himself to sixteen to sixteen. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Polly, you know what you said. One of the best trends right now, it's Kyler Murray spreading the ball. And this is something we have seen, Polly, through the first four games. It wasn't it wasn't a quarter, it wasn't a half,

it wasn't one game. It's four games that we have really seen Kyler Murray spread the ball right now, two different receivers. And I know DeAndre Hopkins wants the ball, and rightfully so, he wants the ball, but he understands, he must understand the only way that that is going to happen is to go ahead and beat teams, beat other defensive coordinators with the other receivers, with Aj Green, with Christian Kirk, with Rondale Moore, with other weapons, Max Williams.

Go ahead and beat teams like that and show him that you can do that. And now all of a sudden, that's gonna free up d Hop more and more and more as defensive coordinators will pick their poison, so to speak, and take chances on the backside. What Cliff Kingsbury tell us this week on his weekly TV show Game Plan, that's the first time he's called a tight end screen. How many years? Yes, and the sideline loved the tight end screen. I'll tell you that much. Cardinals are four, No,

first time since two thy twelve. But Kyler has been here and done that. As he told the media, I'm used to winning. That's that's what it is. This is not a new feeling for me. It feels right, you know, it feels normal. And to be back, you know, in a position where we go into each and every game confident that we will come out of Victoria's I mean, as it's a great feeling for sure. He walked into that stadium, he got on the Team Bus Wolf and

I watched him. He's wearing his high school letterman's jacket, and his performance this season so far reminds me of what he did to high school defenses. He looks that dominant, his highlights look that unstoppable. He is clowning NFL players like they are high schoolers when he goes out. And his combination of being able to dissect a defense now and also run the ball when needed when it's third and sixteen and he runs for eighteen. I mean that stuff he did in high school when he went forty

three and oh yeah, and especially too. You were talking about trends. I'm going to continue the best trends. I'm going to say number two. The running back room has been integral to the success of this offense. James Connor and Chase Edmonds have lit it up. Hey episode eleven in the Day Pash podcast featuring comedian Frank Calando. It is a must watch, must listen, available now wherever you get your podcast. We'll hear from Frank a little bit later, but up next Chase Edmonds on The Big Red Rage

presented by Santan four in Gilbert. Let's start that off, as Bruce arians. Actually I'm talking about that at Murray and shot guns snapped the Kyler at a tiny little short set. See I did that short set a little bit now, throwing deep fire side and is pulled in into five yard hold on, I gotta grab myself a crown royal here. I have a little sippet debate, little sippet dippy that hoops new DIPPERU finished the call as Jack Nicholson, A J. Green just too strong, too big,

too athletic. To Tracy Morgan, I want a great read by Kyler Murray to throw the ball. Say it is, Morgan Freeman, What a great read by Kyler Murray to throw the ball. You've got a scarecrow on a stick. Put it out there, let him go get it. Thanks exactly what a J. Green? Big? Can you do it? As Liam Neeson, want a great read by Kyler Murray to throw the ball. You've got a scarecrow on a stick, put it on there, let him go get it. That's

exactly what a J. Green did. The uber talented Frank Caliendo, I mean just carrying this week's edition to the pash pod. Come on now, Dave, it's just adwater. I mean you just put a stamp on that thing, mailed it in. I mean, you just basically teed up Frank Caliendo and let him go. And you've got instant entertainment on the Pash podcast this week, Ron Wolfe, was that indeed your call? That he was reiterating their word for word? I think so,

I think the scarecrow out of psychic. And since we've heard scarecrow on a stick about a million times this week, would you please explain what does that mean? Exactly? Polly? I don't understand this. I mean, don't you people in California. Don't have you ever seen a cornfield, Paul, what they do with a scarecrow? I mean, honestly, they go ahead and they stick him on a stick in the field. All right, So once again Dave Passes in Seattle calling

a national radio call for this Thursday football game. Will consider it advanced scouting, okay for the Rams and Seahawks as the Cardinals get ready for the Niners. And we are joined by Chase Edmonds, who fashions himself as a bit of a personnel guy not only the NFL but the NBA. We know, we know your knowledge there, Chase, would you ever use the word scarecrow on a stick to describe a J. Green and your scattery park because that's how Wolf described him. And after that touchdown, catch Wolf,

that's very creative. That would not have tame to mind for me. I'll tell you that. Hey, Chase, Man, how are you doing right now? How's the body feel? Here we go, we're going into game five? How's the body feel feel? Good? Man? I'm getting better, getting help your day by day. You know, it's gonna be real hopeful for Sunday, and I'm looking forward to playing obviously a very good team in the San Francisco forty nine and hopefully we can continue this good momentum we got going

right now. Yeah, like the word hopeful because you had that ice pack on you right on the shoulder and then you were DNP the last two days. So okay, all right, hopefully that's trending the right way. We know this season has trended the right way. When you go against the Rams in their house against ninety nine and company Aaron Donald and you put up sixteen that's in the rushing department, forty carries for two sixteen, Man, that must have put a smile on your face. On the

flight home. It did, man, it really did. And obviously uh against the Rams, it mean it meant a lot more to it just because it had been a long time coming. But you know, I mean, we run two hundred yards. I'm pretty sure. I bet if you did a statistic for NFL teams that ran over two hundred yards or probably like a ninety percent win percentage. So it was really good day for us and the boys upfront? What is what is it like to be foreign? O Chase?

Right now? You've been in that locker room before, you've experienced success early in the season, before, you've had a lot of disappointment as well. What is it like inside that locker room at fourign Oh? Man, I'll tell you what I think. Um College did a great job today. It was after practice. It wasn't today. I think it might have been our first practice on Wednesday, I believe um.

You know, he just he brought the guys in after practice and he just you know, he reminded every one that this is expected, you know, and this is normally. We haven't really done anything yet. We still got a long long ways to go, and especially coming from k one man when he talks you know everyone listens. Brou a little quiet already, but he stepped up a lot of leadership wise and obviously where his played. But when he truly does address the team, you know everyone, he

has everyone's attention. And it was powerful words from k I said it to us and letting guys know that you know, this is the expectation and we haven't done nothing yet. So we got a long ways to go, man, and we're gonna just continue to try and prove trying to go one to know, you know, the repercess four notes to the media, but to us, it's zero zero every single week, weekend, week out, find a way to winning. Hey, Chase Vemans, Cardinals running back joining us here on the

big red rage and Chase, if you're still wether. I saw evidence of that leadership. It was week one. It was at Tennessee and there were a couple of mental errors and because they talked about it and names were named, I can pass along. It was DeAndre Hopkins and Rondel Moore and Kyle Murray did not hesitate to hold them accountable and quite frankly, are him out on the sideline. And I know he's done that with other guys. Since that is evidence of his evolution as a leader, is

it not? It is? It is. And with that accountability, man, it just goes, it goes across the board. You know, we all hold each other accountable. There's no huge egos on his team, and that's that's really the great part about it. We can just hold each other accountable. Man. Nobody has the ego. We're all we all know that we're all trying to just win football games and be the best team that we can be, and we want the best out of each other. You go a lot longer, man,

You can go a long ways, Broum. Just the accountability we have, the brotherhood that we have in that locker room, it's second to none in my opinions. Right now, Chase, you had sixteen touches in this game right now? Is that the most you've actually ever had as an Arizona Cardinal? Oh? No, so the most was actually again the game against Miami last year when Katie went down the week before. I believe I think I had like twenty eight touches. Didn't

really too much with it. The Miami had a good game, good defensive plan, But I think I had like twenty eight touches that game. Okay, I'm sorry I don't remember that, but let me just tell you this, man, you looked really really good and I mean confident running the ball with the ball in your hands right now? How is it feeling? I appreciate that I say that one more time if I lost. You know what I'm saying. How

is this offense feeling to you right now? Man? I'll tell you what I think we feel since I've been here with Cliff. Um, I think this is the high star confidence has been just because you know, we we got weapons everywhere, man, and we got guys that can take it to distance. We got guys that can make people miss. We got guys that with one on one outside and coverage. So right now we're very confident. Again, like I said, there's no ego in that room. We

don't really care touches the ball. How many times we know that we can go to distance? And um, you know, we feel like we're going to a football game. You know, the defenses kind of have to say, Okay, they got picked their poison. Are they going to try to account for college legs and leave one in the secondary and we can kind of take advance in the past game, or are they gonna have a lighting box and then we can kind of take advantage of it in the run game right now? So, right now I feel like

we're very well balanced as the offensive year. Why did Kyler call it the best game plan since he's been an Arizona Cardinal. What's your theory on that? Yeah, I'll tell you what. I think it was a really good game player just by Cliff. I think he did a good job of kind of seeing our matchups with the Rams, what they did well, what we did well, what they kind of struggled against, and kind of just looking at the matchups and really the game playing of the scheme,

how we could take advantage of certain some things. I can think you kind of saw it on one play where you know, the Rams, the type of coverage that they played, they kind of always had the real lineback on the running back. You know, I got to do a better job bringing the ball down and help and caller up. But on the wheel route that I ran, there's a little game playing tweak like that. And then there was another game. I'm trying to think of the

one call that we had that went't for distance. I think it was the d hop d have called back the corner route, I believe early on if I'm not mistaken, But that was a real that was a real schematic called by Cliff. And I think right now he's calling the best places in his life right now, he's all his confidence has got to be high as well. Obviously he's not gonna say that. He gonna, you know, tell he's still working hard and trying to become the best play caller that he is. But again, man, I think

we're just gelling right now as one. We know we do well. We just find ways they continue to do it, all right, So Chase, Um, I'm gonna geek out a little bit right here. I thought it was eleven personnel, one back, one tight end, three wide receivers. You were in the shotgun with Kyler Murray and you said something, You motioned to him about something, and then you walked up into the line. You walked up into the line and you were saying something. At least it's it looked

like you were saying something to the offensive lineman. Then you stepped back to Kyler and you looked at him and there was eye contact there. He snapped, he snapped the ball and you carried. Do you remember the player I'm talking about. What happened after the snap you got the ball on the carry was an inside run and I thought it looked like to me you called your

own number. That I'll tell you what will uh if you ever if they ever had me and k one Mike, I mean we're talking every single play, so we literally are talking everything. You didn't call your own number. I did not call my owner. Mike. Hey, I wish I had that. I wish that was above my prayer, Gade, I wish my parent were you here. Is how much of a coach you are on the field. That's all we hear. And I thought, oh, I appreciate that. No your coaches say that about you. How about this man um? Yeah,

how about the fourth down stop by the defense? You take over the fifth You had the fifty four yard run on third and seven at your own four? Was that a play that Kyler checked into? That was a play that K one checked into because I think we were originally going past because um it was third and seven, I believe yep, and the Rams bro the Rams had like a five man box for whatever reason, I'm not sure why, but they play this in like a five

man box. And that's why I'm talking about where right now we're so well balanced, because again, some teams are gonna live and die with a five minut or a six man box against us and just count that they're big four can get it done. And I think that's when we really got to take advantage in the run game and it just eases everything out for the receivers on the outside. You know, I'll go out and say I think one through four we got the best receiving

corner league. You know, we got four guys that truly can win one on one matchups, play in and play out inside and outside, and that's something that's something great to have right now. As the offense. Man, you know, there's not a lot of teams that have three and four dbs that are you know, well enough to really play on an island like that and play one on one matchups. So you know, again it's something that speaks pivotens to just say where we're right now as the offense. So, Jay,

you are prolific as an offense right now. Where is the weakness of this offense? Where do you think you need to get better? Where can you get better? Because I know you're gonna nit pick yourself. And I'm not just talking about you, I'm talking about the offense overall, right, I think, um, every offensive unit is always going to tell you that you need to get better in the red zone. Um, I'm not sure what we went in

the red zone last week. I feel like there or five Okay, So I mean we want to go at least eighty percent, you know, and then the other twenty percent be kicks. Make sure we're living our turnocause I know we had Joel turnovers to the game. We really feel like Wolf right now where we're at that as long as we don't turn the ball over, man, we have a good good chance of winning that football game. You know, Bar and Nune, this is what are the way our defense is playing right now. So it's the

turnovers and I believe the red zone. If you can living your turnovers, you can score in the red zone. You know, Cancer, You'll be the hell of a football team. Well, speaking of liking chances, uh, Cliff Kingsbury has asked about that and he said, you know what, when we're running the ball a bunch, I like our chances. Here's the head coach anytime we rush twenty five plus times, we

feel good about our chances. And that old line was coming off and holes and a running basically a great job protecting the ball and getting what they could get. The last drive to me, we didn't pass it one time and started on the inch line and to just run it whatever it was, ten straight plays and get it down there was That was a big time drive to finish the game. Yeah, no doubt. And uh, you know, coach, let me ask you. I mean, there are still people

out there who call this an air raid offense. They couldn't be more wrong, could they, Chase. I mean, that's what they gets labeled as. And I think just because we're still spread out half the time so they can't get that labeled. But you know, again, we're not really worried about what the alfie world saying right now. We know when we run the football well, it's pretty successful and I think it kind of just gets that notion just because you know, coach Cliff k that's what he

was doing in college, a whole bunch of tech. To be honest, what are you liking from James Connor right now? I love it, man. I'll tell you what that's that's big bro. He's a great guy. Getting to know James agatting close to James, I think that we just compliment each other so well, one two punchs going in. We both bringing something unique to the table and I think it gives as a good flow as an offensive unit

right now. And last year again, obviously, I feel like our offensive struggles it was sometimes it felt like it was harder to get a third and one and a fourth and one as opposed to like a third and six, you know, which is just so weird to say. But James has just come in. Man. He's brought that physical,

imposing and he imposes his will on the defense. He runs so hard, and he brings a different type of temple on a different type of styles to this offense that we definitely need, and I feel like that everyone needs in the National Football League, especially when it comes to four minute situations. Those got to have it plays where it's fourth and ones at the tyred zone and everything like that. So James Connor has four rushing touchdowns, Kyler has three, and that's the entirety of the Cardinals

rushing touchdowns this year seven total. That's number two in the NFL. But you've been saved by the music, Chase, because I was going to ask you your thoughts are not having a rushing touchdown yet, But once again you've been saved by that. I will say this Cardinals ran for two hundred plus obviously two sixteen. That's six times under Cliff Kingsbury, guys, and you know that matches the number of two hundred yard rushing games from two thousand

and three through two eighteen. So for this whole air raid, Moniker, guess what there have been him some explosive running games by this Cardinals offense the last two plus years. We continue with Chase Edmonds here on the big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are Satan four, two receivers to the left and two to the right. Murrian shotgun standing in the end zone, takes the snap,

the hands it up. Edmonds up in the middle. Oh my goodness, with a hole at the twenty at the thirty far side of the forty at midfield and all the way to the forty two yard line of the Rams that probably puts the Rams away. Wow, dagger dagger right there by. The Arizona Cardinals light up a little zone read and I mean it was wide open on the backside back breaker as that was part the highlight of a twelve play drive to end it eleven runs

in a fuel goal. Welf, you're a big fan of that when you're just closing out a game with a big lead on the road at a division fold Cardinals win thirty seven twenty. And the guy responsible for that fifty four yard run, he had one hundred and twenty yards rushing in the game is our guest, Chase Edmonds. Chase, So as you said that Kyler called your number on that one. Is anyone calling you deuce? By the way,

since you change your number. I remember you saying they used to call you duce when you wore two in college. But I don't really hear that catching on at all, not yet. Darn practice and everything like that around up facility, I do could call a duced by a couple of guys nice. We kind of just have nicknames around the whole team, So it's it's duced to some people. It's chasing others and these other names that I've gotten along the way. You're not only just say any other names?

Is that in Chase? Right? Yeah? I'm not gonna say the other names more embarrassing, man, So I'm gonna keep that to the locker room. Well, Wolf, Remember when Christian Kirk told us during training camp on the Big Red Rage he had to bring Byron Murphy with him and Chase to La to work out because he can only handle so many of Chase's opinions. Yes, you had to bring another guy with us. So just full disclosure, Chase. That's what I'm said about you, just to let you

know what's I get on the Chase. So I've got to ask you about the San Francisco forty nine Ers. I know you've you've watched an awful lot of tape

on these guys. Right now, when you watch tape of the forty nine ers defense, tell me what you're seeing, um Elite from four, just what they had, um Bosa, Kin Law Armstead, You got D four also on the edge, I mean, those guys like topend their years back when we get to the quarterback, and obviously you've got a great linebacker and Fred Warnerman who can just diagnose plays and he's very good and coverage as well. So I

think we got our hand school going in there. But I think, you know, we just got to do a good job again just establishing the run early, helping k one out. You don't want those guys attending their years back, man, that's when it's a long different type office they're going again. So I think establishing the run prodc should be the number one goal when you're playing in the San Francship before nine of my humble opinion. But we'll see what

goes on when we play someday. A lot of guys after the game cited the week of practice, including Cliff Kingsbury, and it sounded like the Rams, being considered the best in the NFL going into the last week's game, got the best out of the Rows in our Cardinals. How have you like this week of practice and how scared are you there might be some up and downs like we saw a year ago. We I mean, it's it's the NFL, man, So I tell people all the time.

You know, it's been weird because we actually experienced two kind of big time wins. We're against Tennessee and then against the Rams. But usually every game in the NFL is gonna be a close game, one possession game. You're gonna have highs and low as man, you're gonna hit a version. And I think that's what's so important about us. They even Q you know, it's not too many teams that they go a whole season man without hate University. It's gonna come for us at some point, and that's

why I think it's important for us. It's really just to keep our head down now, listen to the noise, stay together, and just take it one the game at a time. So Chase, when you watch tape on this team, they like to close the middle of the field. It seems to me an awful lot right cover three. Do you see a lot of Cover three middle of the field clothes? You see man free as well, maybe some robber um, But it is all about the front four

for the most part. Right. They let those guys get up the field and attack in a big time where I think they have maybe the best defensive line in the NFC West. Yeah, I mean you and b U s here A lot of people disagree with you on that. Well, Um, they have a really they have a really good front four. Man.

They really like to get after it. I mean they get off that BOTHA and d Ford have in their ability to have been the edge is h in terms of duo man, I'm not sure, you know, like in terms of that finesse wise playing style, just getting around

the edge and beating tacklest best in the NFL. They really do have a superior, superior get off and that's why I think that it's just going to be important for us to establish the run and help k one out so they're not really trying to pin their ears back and just going every single play and it'll help us out. Sorry, Russell Wilson leading the NFL and passer rating the first five drives against that Niners defense, they went three and out. So they we watched that drive, man, Yeah,

we watched. We watched that whole game. They definitely did. I think has had a really good game plan for them. So obviously, again that's something that we gotta go. We gotta still on the steal on the field to help our defense ouves. So let me ask, Chase Edmonds is

our guest Cardinals running back. When a defensive coordinator looks at your offense now and he sees it, there are a half dozen receivers within fifteen and twenty catches, just the tendencies, it's real hard to diagnose tendencies when you're throwing and running the ball, and there's a whole variety of weapons. I would imagine it is it is man and I think that's that's going really good for us U I think right now personally, just at a non bos between, I think what the teams are probably staying

against us right now. Um, going into the year, they probably said, okay, number ten, number one is not going to beat this, So they're probably trying to take away d hop um and kind of make us beat people one on one. And then that's why right now we're just we're seeing a lot of zone against it, just because teams are learning real fast that you can't really play man on man with us with the matches we have, There's no doubt about it. It's one of the reasons

it seems like defensive coordinators now have shifted. After you guys beat the Blitz early in the season, it seems like they've shifted to playing more zone, trying to keep Kyler in the pocket. It's a tactic, oh for sure. Yeah, yeah, your thoughts on that chase, Um, I mean, I think that's probably the logical thing to do, you know. Uh, But again I think we should just um and just

find ways to drive the ball field. You know a lot of teams what they're gonna start doing to us to just get that approach you kind of ben, don't break, make everything, make everything in front of you, make the play in front of tack in front of you, and kind of wait for us to make a mistake. And that's why we were really harping a run out of

red zone and not turning the ball over. But you know when when teams played like that and long drives happened, you're gonna get in the red zone one, especially when we moved to football, and then two, you just can't turn the ball over. Man, And I think I was going for us. Yeah, Cardinals are plus five in the turnover ratio, Niners are negative five. Wolf, how many career receptions did you have as in ten years? And ten years? Okay? Because I just want to say, Chase has twenty and

four games and he might pass your career total on Sunday. Um, Chase, has this been under you? We've seen you before in the passing game. We've seen you score and housing against the Niners in the passing game. But I mean, can this continue? Do you like catching the ball on the backfield, and you think you'll continue to be a target the way defenses are approaching the Cardinals. I think I will, and I mean I love catching the ball at the backfield, man.

I think just a personal goal for me this year was really to establish myself as one of the top tier back to the NFL, not feel that I can still do that. I love one get away from you. I got it. I got help Kyll out on that wheel route last week. But it's something I've been working on man a long time, especially in the AW season this past season, just because with the masses we have outside,

you're not gonna really feast on linebackers inside. So it's something that me and Kyler kind of just gotta keep going and really try to get our chemistry going. You always jokingly tell k one every single day, every single day pract I just try to remind him. I'm like, bro,

I want that breeze in Kamara connection. It was kind of like at one point twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen man Drew Brees, it didn't matter what route Kamara had, you know, it was kind of a safety blinking where doing that ball was a catching and the type of first down. That's kind of the connection I want to have with k One Chase. One of the things I absolutely love is the fact that Cliff is put in Kyler more

under center than we've seen in the past. That, to me is the area of this offense Chase I think can really grow and expand. And when I say that, I think of you. I think of you with your toes at six and suddenly you're running the outside zone or the tackle zone is I call it, You're running the stretch play. If you will, you run that play really, really well? Would you like to get more opportunities doing it? You know it's crazy, Wolf. I hate to disagree with you, brother,

but I might have to do it. Do it please? No? I love it me personally. I mean, obviously, I think I think outside zone does work better under center. You're right with that. But for me, the only reason I like getting the ball out of the guns sometimes is because what I've learned over my years just watching football and really playing it is that defenses changed one thing,

and that's the ball. So I feel like the sooner I have the ball in my hands, the easier I can influence the defense, the easier I can influence the gaps to change the easier, influence linebackers to see me with my eyes. So that's the only reason I like getting the ball from Kyler out the shotgun a little more. But you're absolutely correct with that stretch stread his own. It's meant to be ran, understand it, just because with the angle of the running back and making this team

like it's going down hole. I mean, it sets up the back door cut very very easy, and we almost broke one in chase. Not only that, man, it's also the play action that comes off it. Oh yeah, brutal. The play action that comes off that play well, you don't have to ask the old lineman twice to run the ball right, what they call it the pound game. Come off the ball and just take it to a defense.

And if the Cardinals continue running the ball like this and the balanced offense, they're gonna have a real good shot of going five and oho and beyond. Here's justin pew On the mentality needed. We got to keep going into these games hungry. It's a mentality. It's how we practice, it's how we train, it's how we meet in the meeting rooms. That is what makes the team five and olo. We've got close calls. We could easily be sitting here at three and one and not be looking at that.

So it's the mentality of how we're going to go into every practice, every meeting, everything that we do with the mentality that we're gonna win that day, and then it's going to carry ou True or false, Chase, your head coach has more of an edge this year. Oh for sure. True. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if quick gonna tell you that, but I see it in his eye. I see how he carries himself in practice. He definitely has an edge. Man, He's got a chip

on my shoulder, and honestly, I'll feed off that. I don't know by everybody else, but I'm the type of guy rob a chip of my shoulder. I certainly do. I'm not going to go into details on why I do, but so I feed off of that energy and that edge that Cliff has, man, and I think it's something that we need to keep going for the season. Chase, Man, I gotta tell you, absolutely love having you on right here.

And plus you've also solved one of the biggest questions I had about this game, whether or not you actually checked into your own play call. Yes, sir, no, not yet. No. I love that and I love the fact you disagreed with me. That is good stuff. Chase, Thank you man in a contract year. You're from Harrisburg, PA. Steve Kime, the GM is from Harrisburg, PA. You know, get it done. Let's get this thing done here and continue on because we love having you on. Chase, Thank you, appreciate it.

I appreciate you. Thank you. There you go. Chase Edmonds, Cardinals leading receiver. Right now, what twenty grabs and fresh off Ron Wolfley a one hundred and twenty yard rushing effort at the Rams getting ready for the Niners. We'll talk more about the forty nine ers as we continue with the Big Red Rage presented by satan Ford and Gilbert.

We are Santan Ford Robert Downey Junior. It's a fake handoff rolling right as Stafford looking back to the left, throwing the deep ball farside for Deshaun Jackson, and it's picked off inside the fifteen yard line. Alpaccino, it's Byron Murphy. He's tackled around the twelve Byron Murphy, the NFC Defensive Player of the Week. We had two picks last week.

Gets one here on Stafford in the first quarter. Okay, so now this is Wolf talking to do it first as Wolf, Oh, Byron Murphy baite Matthew Stafford to throw that ball and then broke on the ball on an unbelievable play from Byron Murphy and slowly starting to turn into Jesse the body Ventura all right and Basanonian all right, and then I have one line after that. Let's do that line of shack Man. Murphy's playing like a pro bowler the first month of the season. It's pretty good.

The Pash podcast is really good featuring Frank Aliando. It is a can't miss. Wherever you get your podcast, you gotta dial it up. The only time you're not laughing Ron Wolfley is when you're just in awe Frank Aliando's talent. I mean it's just jaw dropping at time. This guy goes from person to person man without batting an eyeball. And then the most incredible thing about it is, if you're watching him, it's his face. He has the Manner

ristles on his face. That's incredible. Yea. If you go to the Cardinals Twitter feed or asy Cardinals dot Com. You can see some of the videos they've paired up with his impressions. It is remarkable, there's no doubt about that. And look, you're gonna get a Niners team that has had a lot of different faces. If that's a segue. They're the first team Ron wolfully since the merger to have twelve different players score their first twelve touchdowns. Think

about that. And now, man, now they're tracking to have a second starting quarterback now, even though Kyle Shanahan late this afternoon went on the flagship radio station in San Francisco and said, Jimmy G wants to give it a shot at practice tomorrow to see if he's able to push off and make throws with the injured calf. Can he protect himself? Jimmy G pronounced himself out a couple of weeks after the game. And here's the stat Jimmy G is likely to be Jimmy I R once again.

And he has begun a season the NFL as a starting quarterback five times and it's now the fourth time he's been injured before the end of the fourth game. Yeah, that's that's brutal, right there, Polly, But honestly, right Now, this game, to me, is still about the line of scrimmage. It's still about the Arizona Cardinals, and it is still about protecting Kyler Murray. Listen, Demco Ryans's defensive coordinator, of course for the forty nine ers. He took over for

Robert Sala. Right, he's got the same philosophy, a four three scheme that emphasizes cover three principles, three deep, four underneath, creating pressure with only four That's what he wants to do, and that's what he's gonna do against Kyler Murray, in my opinion, make him prove that he can throw the ball from the pocket. Demiko Ryans was a player like two years ago, wasn't he the linebacker inside linebacker? I think it was a little bit longer than that. But

he's thirty seven years old right about now. Right, But he's a disciple of Robert cell and Robert Sala was a disciple of Pete Carroll. That's the kind of defense you're gonna see. You're gonna see man, You're gonna see a free safety in the middle of the field. You're gonna see Robert. But I think you're gonna see more zone than you're gonna see man, all right, So there you go. That's on the defensive side. Now, in terms of the Niners offense, the big question is who are

you going to see at quarterback. If it's not Jimmy g then it'll be Trey Lance, their top draft pick where they traded three first round picks to draft the rookie. Here's Isaiah Simmons on the potential of facing a new rookie crewe Q. At the end of the day, they're not gonna reinvent the wheel based on having a new quarterback in. You know, teams are gonna run their better and better on what works, what the coaches believe works,

what works with the other personnel. So there's differences dot com with new quarterbacks, but there's still a lot of carry over. But even Vance Joseph today, Wolf was pretty frank with the media, said his job's a lot easier if he only has to game plan from one quarterback, and it's a lot easier if he only has to game plan for a pocket quarterback versus a potential running

quarterback like Trey Lance. So if nothing else, Kyle Shanahan has been successful this week making the Cardinals prepare for anything and everything based on two very different quarterbacks. No, you're absolutely are you right about that, Paulie? Listen to forty nine Ers offense with Trey Lance is going to represent the biggest trend in the football universe that is happening right now. It's the blending of the old schemes with the new schemes. Why wouldn't you do both, Polly,

You know why? Why wouldn't you try to be capable of doing it all? Why are these philosophies dicotomists? That's my question, And this is all going away to be a chameleon, to be capable of being whatever you need to be to be to defense. That seems to be the future. And it's the reason why the forty nine Ers moved up to number three to actually get Trey Lance, because Kyle Shanahan sees the future of the NFL and it's really the present that is going on right now.

It is a blending of the old and the new. Jimmy g represents the old. Can I add to that? I think both those franchises saw the future in their own division of Kyler Murray. Polly, you might be right, and Wilson does a degree yes, and I think they both felt like, oh boy, where is this to vision trending? And it's getting away from us. And Kyler in his third year number one in the league in completion percentage and number two and passing yards per attempt, and he

still has the legs. So if all of a sudden, okay, we better upgrade at the quarterback spot and look at what the Rams and Niners gave up basically three first round picks a piece to get their new quarterbacks. And so you can't tell me there was an urgency on behalf of those two franchises based on what they're seeing in the desert and they know where Kyler Murray is trending, and it's happening already. Here's the thing, what we've seen so far out of Trey Lance, and this is a

big difference from Kyler Murray. His accuracy is not all there. Yeah, that's got to be a bit of a concern to Kyle Shannon. I get it, he only had seven snaps in the first three games and then he only played the second half. But man, he has been a radic so far throwing the ball. Yeah, no, you're right about that, Paulie. But again, This is a work in progress for the San Francisco forty nine ers with Trey Lance as their quarterback. But you know that's the guy they want, that's the

guy they want to play right now. And for me, I think this is something that Kyle Shanahan has been waiting for Jimmy g to go down. I'm not trying to disparage Jimmy Ge in any way, shape or form, but we're gonna see it. We're gonna see the blending here of the old and the new. It's not gonna look like the forty nine ers with just twenty one personnel. We're gonna see an awful lot of shotgun as well. We're gonna see the new age combined with that old

traditional offense. So if you're heavy in the box, you know what you got a week secondary, Well, we'll just go ahead and we'll use the new aage. If you're light in the box, we'll line up in twenty one personnel and hammer you. Hey. As long as we don't see CJ. Bethard. CJ. Bethard in Week sixteen last year, who beat the arrows on the Cardinals? I mean, why would you bring that up? Right? Now, let's sleep. We're on a roll. Like what you can have happened is

what happened in Week sixteen. It wasn't just a CJ. Bethard. Is a fact that Niners came out and that Kyle Shanahan offense, which last year led the league in pre snap motions, did they not? And they messed with the Cardinal's eyes on defense and all of a sudden gap integrity wasn't there. And the Niners, with a third string running back by the name of Jeff Wilson, ran for

two hundred and twenty seven yards. And where are the Cardinals right now when it comes to yards per carry thirty first in the NFL and run defense yards per carry? So if the Niners have one shot beating the Cardinals in their building this Sunday, it's if they run the ball, and that's a Kyle Shanahan's specialty. They gotta get to Kyler Murray with that four man rush. They gotta get to Kyler ear They're doomed, speaking of running the ball

special Thanks Chase Edmonds tonight for joining us. That was outstanding. Jim almahndro Cody Fincher, thank you for Ron Wolfley on Paul CALVC. It's a Cardinal's first four and oh start since twenty twelve. Last time they were five and oh nineteen seventy four. That'll do it for the Big Red Rage presented by santan four in Gilbert Number one. You've been listening to The Big Red Ray presented by Santanford

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