Big Red Rage - Hamilton Thankful For Opportunity

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football in Mexico City. And the best news is it matters. It's meaningful, right, It's pivotal. Because the Cardinals did what they traveled to SoCal, the land of Botox, and they got a shot of vitamin w oh We love that, you know, I mean Wolves, I mean Antonio. Just before we get to it, just let you know Ron Wolfley played in the eighties and nineties. He's basically been shot up with anything that's out there. Okay, so a lot

of bluechers. And while you're you explained vitamin W a little bit later, but real quick, it stands for a wind exactly, gotta have it, yep. And it is the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Paul Kelvic, Ron Wolfley and our very special guest tonight, Cardinal's cornerback and leading tackler, Antonio, how's the body doing, by the way, because you basically had the game of a middle linebacker against the Rams, right right right, I'm doing pretty solid, man.

You know. I was lucky and I was thankful. You know, they had that many tackles in those many opportunities to show that I can I can play ball and be consistent. So I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. So Antonio, before we get into the football stuff, which is really really good and we love talking to you about that. What is Johnston, South Carolina? Like ah Man, real small town, but it's the peach capital of the world, so rubly that was gonna be very fault. It really is the

peach capital of the world. Yeah, the peach capital of the world most of the time. You know, if he getting any peaches that are coming from down south, they probably came from Johnston more than likely. So what's it. What's it like though to live? It's a small town. H yeah, extremely small, super small town. Um probably, I know y'all said they even had what thirty five hundred people including the prison. Well we got about twenty five

hundred including the prison. So yeah, it's really really small. Man. It's a real small community. Like everybody knows everybody, so it's not too much you can do as far as like get yourself in trouble because they gonna know who you are and then they're gonna tell your mom one then it's just it's all bad. So yeah, it's a real small town. Could you ever do it again? Small town life? I mean, you spent the last seven years in big cities in the NFL. Could you move back

and do a small town again? Oh? Yeah, man, most definitely. I love I can go back every year at least three to four times because I love I just love being home, Like it's just you get away from a lot of the noise and everything and you just get to be a part of It's like it's really like a big family, like being in those small type of towns, so it's like almost like a family. You get to see everybody went to school with and everything. So you're

either you either love peaches or you hate peaches. Which one is it? I don't hate them, but I don't love them me that I'm like right there in between you like you have so many, you know, growing up, and He's just like, I've had enough cobbler. Yeah, Thanksgiving, man, I've had enough peach cobbling. Enough enough, I have enough of ass. I'm just my wife though, Oh man, she

loves them. Though, she loves them. Yeah, I tell you, I think of your wife when I think of your interception against the Saints, right, I mean a critical, pivotal interception would have been fourteen to three early in that game.

Not sure the Cardinals come back. Cliff Kingsbury studied your interception, not the two picks sixes is maybe the most important, but as the pencil next sideline reporter, I vividly remember you coming to the sideline and going to the rail and looking for your wife and take it from there. Explain to everyone, because I think a lot of folks are familiar with the cooking accident you had, but just the wife and in the props and plot that's you paid to your wife and your recovery from those second

degree burns. Yeah. Man, So my wife is very very important to me. I love them more than a world, of course, and more than anything in the world. So I've always told it like I was, like, man, when that day come that you know, guy, finally best blessed me with that opportunity to get my hands on the ball.

You know, I pretty god as you're there, because I'm an come and bring get the ball and getting an opportunity to come back after being you know, sustained in the injury that I sustained, uh right, during training camp. You know, I was in the dark place. And so to get that that that pick after seven years of waiting for a long long time and not getting many opportunities to you know, get myself out there to get

those interceptions. I mean, like man, it was perfect time with everything and so when I when I made it, I went straight to the sign. I'm like, uh, where she had? I know she's somewhere over there. And I was as I got to get down the sideline I'm looking for and people was like, yeah, man, you was showing off, showing and stuff. Had you walked going on? But I was like nah, yeah, but I was really

looking for her. I couldn't find her. And then I turned around to just walk away and Benjamin was like, oh dash she is. I was like, perfect. And then so I was able to present her with the ball man. So yeah, it was you know, yeah, Tonio, Thanksgiving obviously is right around the corner coming off here. You've got an awful lot to be thankful for, right, I mean it just can you put this this season into perspective

for us and what it means to you? It means a great deal, of course, But it was kind of like a wake up call to a certain degree. Um was just everything where how everything was going for me, for Kemp, you know, it was so promising and this that and the third and all in the blink of it can all be gone. So at that time I

was like thying. I was faced with two things. It was like I can either fall in the hole and give up and just you know, allow my injury to you know, take away everything, or I can use this to to become better or to become something more of myself. And so when I when I got hurt, I was like, man, okay, you know, if God does nothing else from me outside of just you know, healing me, then I'm great for him,

thankful for it. So as I approached it with that type of mindset, I began to like, I heal faster because the doctor said, you know, the type of burns that I have had both second degree, very deep second degree and third degree burns, and so I just had a lot of I started having a lot more a lot more gratitude for the small thing. So something about just being able to get up, to walk, to get to the restroom was a big, big deal for me

because within that first week it wasn't bad. But the second week when my feet swoll up and skins and beginning to peel and had to change my wounds. Like my wife literally like she was I guess five months pregnant, six months pregnant at the time, she would literally have to get up and pick me up and take me

to the bathroom. So I know that I was up here a couple of times, but the days that I was here, I was an extreme amount of pain because just because how much my feet had swolled swollen, and uh, just with the nerve in is in my feet. So the type of feeling that you may have that you have in that to try to describe the sense of

pain that I felt. And even now, like I had to take my shoes off sometimes and I had to lift my feet up and go on my tippy toes because if when the blood flows to my toes, the nerve is still healing, so they kind of have like this itchy feeling like if you go to sleep and you go to sleep on your arm and you wake up and you know how you can't move your arm and they've got that static like feeling, and so add that with a little bit of sense of like somebody

just constantly like pinching you, like, and so that's the kind of like feeling that I have. And it was way way, way worse when I really was like really really recovering before I got back to bass. So like I just started being extremely grateful for each and every day cool and within six weeks you were back on an NFL field. Yeah, that is remarkable. Yeah, Antonio, and this last game, you had a career high eleven tackles, you had two passes defense. I mean, you guys turned

Cooper Cup into a non factor. He had negative one yard receiving. That was all minus the Cardinals number one cover corner Byron Murphy. Think about that and plenty of other players, by the way, on both sides of the ball. And once again, here's what you had to say afterwards, Kelvin Beecham, react to how you describe the win at LA. Vitamin W is always good. You know, it makes it easier to go to work. It makes it easy to deal with the knicks, knacks and bruises and pains. You know,

it makes it easier to go to work. And so we needed that vitamin W. What's vitamin W? Oh you got a big laugh out of Kelvin Beecham. Right, and based on hard knocks last night, does vitamin W helped cure popcorn itis? He had his own deal. Yeah, Yeah, I don't know. I hope it do. So tell me about the game and that win and just I mean, how pivotal the win was. And I don't know if

it's classified information. But Cooper Cup in two games had seven catches forty three yards, zero touchdowns on eleven targets. What was the key defensively against the Rams this season? Oh, well, going into the game, we of course, you know that's a divisional opponent, so we know them very well. So it wasn't like we were going into the game like, hey man, we got you know, double bracket coverage each

and every player and just mess up the whole scheme. Na. It was just like, hey, we gotta line up, know where he is, and they gave me that role um this week with Byron being down, and of course, like we have like a great, great great room of dbs and that anybody can come in at any given time and covering the number one receiver with no problem. And you know that's just a test of advanced Joseph and

his staff and and and everyone else. That's a part of like getting a roster together, like we have competitors through and through and so man, going into that week, it was just like, hey, we're gonna line up, We're gonna play at what we play and do what we do very well. We know that they like to run the ball a lot and so they was like, hey, you know, corners, you gotta show up and fill in those gaps and whenever we get crack blocks, and I don't know why, but they kept running it to my side.

So I mean I would think after like the third or fourth time, they were like, Okay, let's try to the other side, but they kept coming back. So I just kept, you know, throwing that body in there. And that's what you gotta do. And for us as corners to be able to tackle h in this league and more so primarily in this division, that's very, very important because most of these teams are run first type of offense.

And so when we can do that and make them one dimensional and pass the ball like that gives us an opportunity to do what we do best, and that's covered Antonio. Man, it's just amazing to watch you. You're big. You're big for a corner um, You've got great size, You use your body, your physical you tackle, you can walk up on a receiver and play press. Man. I mean, you really look like you found a home here. Why if you found a home with the Cardinals. Oh, Man,

I think it's just all God's timing. To be honest, to be quite honest, Like I've been around the league for a while. This is my fourth team, and I just couldn't find that home or that place for me to stick as far as getting the opportunities to play defense. And so once I came here, I think being released last year from Tempa, I came in and coaching events was just like, hey, man, you're gonna play at some point, any time, You're gonna play, And I think, what the

I mean? I played in the second game for sure, Marco went down. I finished the game against Minnesota here in the home and where they missed the field goal and I did the like the infamous black the backflip and the end of the game, and everybody was talking about and I played basically the whole second half. And I didn't even really know the playbook like that, And

then Byron and Marco got hurt. I think it was week five, and uh that was still with me, you know, trying to learn the playbook and stuff on the fly. So I had to start when we played San franc for the first time in the home game, and I was actually coming off an injury too, but we had so many guys going that had went down in that Rams game I knew. I was like, Damn, Marco got hurt, Byron got hurt. I hurt because I got hurt in that game as well, and I had to come out

and I didn't come back into the fourth quarter. So I was like, man, I'm not going to miss out on this opportunity to get my first start here and show what I can do. Then we got that win once I at that start, and so from their own I kind of earned their trust and They've done nothing but continuously increased my role as far as being on the defense. And so I've been making the plays and taking advantage of the opportunities that I've been presented with.

And so I'm just thankful. And the latest greatest example of a member of the secondary playing through pain and making it happen right Buddha Baker, And here he was after the game and how he was able to play defied the expectations he was going to miss two or three weeks until he didn't. For me, I think of every game as a playoff game. So they told me

it's a three to four week process. But the way I worked, the way I did my treatment all week, the way you know, there's on the Cardinals treatment staff. Did I was able to play today and you know, not a hundred, but did good enough when we got to w We know what he does for you guys on the field, but what do you do for you guys? Just your spirit, just your mentality when you see him out there and define the you know the forecast that

he was supposed to miss two or three weeks. Oh yeah, man, that's just to show to his character and what type of player in person that he is. He's just a dog man. It's like you want that guy on the field because he just give you that extra sensive juice

in that extra sensive fight. When you know that you got a brother behind you that's just as willing to get in that dog fight with you, then you are yourself like, man, they make it easier to play, and he's not making any businesses, business decisions as far as when it comes to making any tackles or any pass breakups. He's getting in there, and so man, it's it's just very very important, you know, to a defense like that.

We have to have that type of guy like that, and we're thankful, as I said before, that we have all the guys basically that our backups can come in. Banjo. He started a number of games too, and so we were like, okay, Benjo, we already know what you can do. Of course they do because you've already started before. So man, as I said, our defensive back group, like, man, this is this is one of a kind. Like everybody really from the first to the third string can can really ball.

I'll tell you what. We're gonna come back and we're gonna talk about Mexico City because you've been there and done that. We're gonna about your talk with Cole McCoy. We saw some of that in Hard Knocks. Good's amazing. Cole McCoy has helped guys all over the roster on both sides of the ball. So we want to get your thoughts on that. And then of course the forty nine Ers. How you guys were able to sweep the

Niners a year ago. You know they're out for revenge this year for sure, and they also have in terms of their passing game, nobody has more yards after catch than forty nine Ers receivers. When it comes to tackling, you had the eleven Guess what everyone's gonna have to bring that aspect of their game to Mexico City. There's no doubt about it. It's the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford. We

continue with Cardinals cornerback and leading tackler Antonio Hamilton. As we continue with a big red rage. Snapped to Wolford back to throw fires near your side. Cup bade to catch run out of play immediately by Hamilton, pops out rose deep middle and Hannah catches made by Cup that he bumbles the ball. It's loose and they're gonna say incomplete. They're gonna say that Cooper Cup never controlled it. What a great job. Antonio Hamilton locked it away, Are you

kidding me? Stuck that paw in there and ripped the pig out and up up the middle for acres no running room as he is drilled by Antonio Hamilton in the hole the twenty one yard line play action booting to the right, getting rid of the passpot at the twenty yard line. Get up to about the twenty five

is Hopkins. Hamilton on the tackle. Great job once again defensively coming up and making that tackle first down for the Rams on their twenty five A pass played to the left and jumping in front and almost picking it off was Hamilton. But it's incomplete. Ellen Robinson running the zero route to the left of Wolford and Antonio Hamilton jumped the robs. So you're saying, man, passion Wolf called the name Antonio Hamilton a lot during that game. You'd

be right eleven tackle those two PBUs. I'm guessing you really wanted that pick six, Oh Man, without a shadow of a doubt, did you bang up your thumb on that? If I might ask, Oh, no, So my index finger and my middle finger have been messed up for a number of a number of weeks. And so if you could go back and slow down and watch how the ball hit my hand, it really if it would have hit my pump, oh I would have walked down there

easily without a doubt. But the way that it hit my finger, it pushed my index and my middle finger back. So and I don't really have a whole I didn't have a whole lot of strength and at that time and then it just ah, it's gruesome, so like to have that when you need your hands and your fingers like it's just the most aggravating thing in the world. Antonio. What do you like to do in your free time? Oh? Man, so I like to spend a lot of time with

my family. Um, whether that's you know, we sit at home, we play a lot of uno, um like literally a lot, a lot of you know, and uh, we like to go to the movie and I like to take my kids to the park and do just man. I just try to be present, really, just to be around my family. So you have two young daughters and now you're expecting a son soon right here? Oh, real, soon, real soon.

I think my wife she was talking about I think what's it called the burking something, uh, burking hicks, I think contractions, thinking that she was having them last night. So I'm like, oh, weout Mexico. Just just just just hold off till Tuesday or Monday, Monday, late Monday night. When I get back in the name, We're good because we got a home game. So this season, have you learned anything about yourself this season? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I really have. I've learned a lot that I'm in seven years.

You would think you would know everything about yourself as far as when it comes to, you know, playing in this league, but you don't, you know, So I try to use every day to grow and I noticed that, man, I fight like no matter what, no matter what, I fight, um, even when the odds are stacked up against me, I always fight. And you know, and I know that I don't have control over everything, but I do try to control what I can control the best of my ability.

And so with that, I try to go out and put my my my best foot forward and I just try to play as hard as I can, whether that's on special teams, defense, and quite frankly who whatever positions and that they needed me to do, I try to do it at my best because I know that I'm not playing for myself. I'm paying I'm playing for my family. I want to take care of my family in the way that I that I really want to and I haven't gotten that yet, but I know it's coming. You

mentioned your defensive coordinator Vans Joseph. I don't know what the question was, but essentially could have been, you know, what have you learned about Antonio Hamilton. Here's the VJA. I mean, he came out of camp as a starter. He's getting back to what he was and in the summer, you know, and to watch him play not only as a cover guy Sunday, but as a as a run defender.

I mean he made some plays on a running game that hadn't been made in the wall, you know, and the seeing b gaps, and that's that's the test of his toughness in his sides. He's a big corner, but he played his butt off. He's a guy that has great confidence in this game. He studies, he's mature, he's tough, so obviously he's playing good. So as he's playing good, he's gonna play more for us. Well an undrafted guy, I mean, you had to develop that toughness earlier. Oh yeah,

for sure, without a shot. I mean, just to forge your career. And then I mentioned, you know, Coulte McCoy. You tell us, so I was Colt helped you. I was a quarterback, helped a cornerback man. That's that's almost like the best teacher that you could possibly have, because he based off what I do, which is defend receivers. He's the one that's throwing it to the receivers. So any type of insight that I can gain from him

is like a plus. So with everything when he seen me an off coverage, he like depending on the routes like I was explaining UH to someone yesterday, like I had been beat on UH corner routes the last like three weeks before last week, I had one against um dk Metcalf, one against Justin Jefferson, and one against UH someone Chris Olave No, no, no, not Chris Olivia. I can't I can't remember thee. But either way, he was like, man, you were in perfect position, the same way as the

coaches were telling man, you're in perfect, perfect position. You just has to turn around and and and and take advantage of the opportunity and make the play. Because all those plays I was in face, but he gave me an extra nugget that they essentially couldn't give me, and that was the ball placement. So he was like, look, man, when you're in this type of leverage and you're in this position, I'm trying to throw the ball over here.

So when you when you feel yourself right here, you can take a peep, know where that ball is going, and stick your hand right there, and I guarantee that ball going hit you nine times out of time. And he's been dead on and so with everything like that, like I said, I'm I'm extremely humble. I can learn from anybody, and so I can take any type of criticism from anybody too, because I just want to be as good of a player as I possibly can be. And for him to tell me that, now, I was

just like, Man, Man, I really appreciate you. And uh. I do the same thing with him. I'm like, hey, cold you know, uh, because he's a great like he's a student of the game too, and of course he's no. He knows a lot and seen a lot. I like Coke Man, instead of telling him to run around like this, if you see we in this type of coverage, you know, tell me to run a right this and then get right here, because that's our blind spot. And so Man, we're always pick piggybacking off of each other, trying to

make each other better. And Iron Sharper as the iron. Yeah. On that note right there, in Tonio, what part of your game do you think you need to improve the most? Uh. It's not to say that I'm perfect. I'm not perfect by any means, but your confidence I really am. I'm very confident in my game. Like I come in on third downs and I cover the best receiver I'm not covering just anybody. So a lot of the players that

were made those were the number one guys. I haven't been giving up any places and any type of like slices. So um, I remember in camp you were yapping with

de Hop Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I know that I love to compete, man, and I just I always can you know, I can be more sharper on my press technique, I can always be more disciplined with my eyes because you know, we're in a division where a lot of these offenses they'd like to do a lot of jets and orbits and motions, and you have to make sure you put in your eyes in the right place. And that's that what I would probably

say is the most important thing. It's just being better with my eye progression, because that's very important in the Niners obviously through a lot of that. But first, tell us about Mexico City since you've been Wolf and I were there in two thousand and five, but you were there more recently with the Raiders, right, yeah, So what are you tell them? Like some of your teammates are like, hey, Antonio, what's Mexico City gonna be all about? What are you

telling them? Number One? It was super super cool if you had never been to Mexico City. I went in two thousand and sixteen when we played against the Houston Texans, I think against hot yep and so the altitude is real, for sure, it is real. I didn't play in that game, but I remember warming up and I remember have time walking back to the locker room because this is a far away from the field, and I remember getting back to the locker rooms like, Okay, why am I tired?

I'm not even doing anything. And we had a couple of guys that had, you know, they needed their inhaler or whatnot. So but what I was just telling them, like, man, it's a it's an extremely dope environment. Like they're going to be loud, like it's not going to be a home and away team. They're gonna cheer for everybody about everything that goes on. And I think they even had to pause our game because they got so excited and we're going, like going crazy. They started throwing like paper

airplanes on the field. I remember on the far side, and man, it was so dope like that. That was probably one of the funnest games, like honestly of my career, even though I didn't play in it, and it was just a cool atmosphere and environment because they're just so used to football, you know what I mean. But to have our game to come there, like man, they just embraced it and they just showed so much love. Speaking of environments, what can you tell us about the forty

nine ers wide receiver room? What do you see on tape? Oh, we know that they have you know, of course, they have a great group. They have a guy, they have guys that are you know, masters in their roles. Everybody doesn't do the same thing. Certain guys do certain things. And we know Deebo Samuel he likes to get that ball and when he got that ball in his hand, you know, he's a phenomenal player, and so the same without you he's more of their receiver crafty style of guy.

And uh, we know that. You know, when it comes to the route running, he's going to be the guy. In the same way with George Kittle. They do a lot of twelve and twenty one type of personnel. So Killer is going to get that his fair share of work too. And he's a great athlete. He can run all the routes too, and he can make you miss. And he's fast, He's not like slow. So man, I mean like they have a great group of guys. And even with um Christian McCaffrey that just got there, that

just made them even better. So they got a lot, they got a lot of weapons, just like we do. And so they are who they are though, you know, even with everything that they are, they are a run first style of offense. And we know that we have to be gap sound going into this week and guys, and we have to you know when out one on one matchups with the ones that we get. And Jimmy G is the niners starting quarterback is thirty nine and nineteen. Think about that. And the only quarterback right now who's

better on third and eight plus is Patrick Mahomes. So Jimmy G quietly having a pretty darn good year. Let me ask you when it comes to receivers, what does Hollywood Brown when he eventually comes back, whether it's this week or next or whatever, what does he do for the Cardinals? What sort of challenge is that going to be for secondaries to go against the hop Hollywood Brown and Rondale Moore. Yeah, so he just spreads everybody out like it's not gonna be you can lean over here

with the hop anymore. You can't really double team him because then you're gonna leave another corner one on one with one of the fastest guys in the league. And then he can run every route. So if you're trying to play it over top people whom he sitting down, we're gonna take that first down all day long. And so we can dink and dunk the ball downfield and we can just do what we want to with teams. And we still have aj Green too. He's a beast. So when he get out there on the field with

all the weapons that week, it's just ridiculous. And I just you know, I'm excited to see once we get all of our weapons back and how we use them. And I just pray that, you know, everybody just embraced their rolling and whoever got the hot hand, I hope they give just keep feeding because we got all the guys that we got, all the twos and guys that can really get the job done him by himselves. Who's the best wide receiver you covered for this season this season?

I would have to say Justin Jefferson, Justin Jefferson that catch that throw and catch by Kirk Cousins that he made. Yeah, Like I said, I was in perfect position, and Kirk Cousins put that ball only where he could get it, and he had to do the even harder job with making the catch, and he made it like almost with a one hand against his body. He didn't give me an opportunity to stick my hand in there because he threw his hands up late. And that young boy's crafty.

He knows what he's doing, and so that's just a hat off to him. And uh yeah, I would say that's the best receiver Cartin look at to catch him in this last week. He o'dealed that one with that one hand or oh my goodness, that's uh well, the hard knock camera's wolf. When they get around Antonio Hamilton, they're gonna have quite a story and they're gonna have a great interview. We appreciate all your time. Antonio. There

you go back to your brother. We continue with a big red rate presented by Santan four King Gilbert, three receivers right, one left, second and goal on the six yard line. McCoy flanked to his left by Connor. We now motions out light to the right and snap to McCoy looking left. It's a fade left, corner of the end. Zoe H J. Green with a great crab touchdown. The HJ. Green of old his back. He's made two incredible crabs.

Cold McCoy meanwhile, continues to deliver. This offense looks entirely different right now, sixteen to three with the extra point coming. It all starts with protection for col McCoy and on the fade it's J Green the scarecrow. I want to stick baby about it. It was hard not to notice after the game when AJ Green said, Hey, Colt, trust me, and then Colt said I trust AJ. So they definitely

have a chemistry going. And you saw it right there on what was a dagger of a touchdown in a lot of ways right before halftime to make it seventeen three Cardinals get the win. We're talking all about it here on the Big Red Rate presented by Santan ford In Gilbert Paul kelvc Ron wolf Lee, and we were

just joined by Antonio Hamilton. Wolf Your thoughts and impressions on Antonio Hamilton Man, you talk about impressive, you know, Polly, Honestly, I think the only thing better than Antonio Hamilton ends in visiting with him is how well he's playing on the field. I think that's about the only thing going that's a little bit better than Antonio Hamilton talking to us Man, he was fantastic. He expounded on so many of the questions, really opened up about his cooking incidents.

Of course, the accident something that really set him back, and it's his own personal development as well. Man. I enjoyed that so much, Paul, I know you did too. Yeah. And the fact that he got the primary assignment on Cooper Cup last week without Byron Murphy. So a fans, Joseph hasn't hesitated to use Antonio Hamilton in some high leverage situations all season long. But you know, it's just the way this season has gone. You go into a game and you hear you guys reference it there in

the play call. You're minus four starters on the offensive line, you don't have your franchise left tackle, you don't have your number one cover corner, you're on your four different kicker for Pete's sake, and the Cardinals found a way. And I tell you, the more I reflect on that win is just what guys were saying afterwards is that there was a belief based on last year. Obviously, you know,

winning division games on the road. That's what Colt McCoy does. Yeah, Paul, it's super, super impressive what Colt McCoy has been able to do. I mean, this guy, once again, when you're talking about the four games that he is filled in to be three in one right now and beat everybody in the NFC West, that's it says so much about Colt.

Just watching him on hard knocks as well. He's thirty six years old and he looks like he's eighteen, does folly and you know, I mean just said the leadership that he brings to the table and the mentorship that he brings to Kyler Murray. I just it's one of the best things about this team and this roster is the fact they have Colt McCoy's or backup quarterback and you know what, he's almost an assistant offensive coordinator. What did Kurt Warner do for the Cardinals? What did Carson

Palmer do? They were very involved in the game planning. When you've spent a decade plus in the league and you've seen every defensive scheme and you know defensive coordinators on a first name basis. Yeah, I don't think it was any surprise really when Hard Knocks showed this, and we're gonna listen to it right now. Here's Cole McCoy during the game week getting ready for the Rams in the quarterback room. I don't want to go into this

game if anybody has confusion on what they're supposed to do. Good. If we don't know what to do and if it's not detailed then dialed in, then we're not gonna beat this team. If we know what to do and if the space's right and do what you do your job, will beat this team. That's the that's it will beat anybody. That's the bottom line. So when we talk about like what can we do, it's just these it's these little details that are just adding up. We'll go white out.

Then it's not one position, group being the place you're supposed to be and get the ball like when you're ready to pull the trigger. Most of the time somebody's open, sign the one we're better across the board and all this stuff. Hey oh yeah, wait for me, man, wait for me. I mean like little things, Hey, it's the details of it. Well, if you know what. On his TV show this week, Cliff Kingsbury, he mentioned how adamant that quote was to start the week about the ball

has to come out quick. Yeah, hey, because of our offensive line situation, but b because of the Rams defensive front and Aaron Donald and you know he had a plan in his own mind going into this game. Yeah. No, this is what I love about it right here. It really is. It's a game plan. And obviously they knew what the game plan was going to be all week long. Hard Knocks definitely showed us that they were talking about it. Hey, the ball is coming out. Man is space? You hear

him mention the words space. They knew the zone was going to be there. Run your route, be in the right place, and you'll get the ball. The little things he was talking about going out and doing your job, executing, being where you're supposed to be right there, that was so evident on the first possession was not against the Rams, PAULI, Well, they went down eleven consecutive passes in a row to

start the game. Never and you want to talk about a Sicilian message Polly being to the Rams right there at that point in time, you know, hey, Aaron Donald. Do you think Aaron Donald thought that was going to be the case. Do you think Sean McVeigh thought that was going to happen. Do you think any Ram thought the Cardinals were going to come out and give Aaron Donald and that pass rush the opportunity to get to Colt McCoy. No, man, eleven consecutive passes in a row,

and I think that took him by surprise. Yet that was the game plan all week long, and you know what, we were there and you still learn things in hard knocks like that, you go behind the scenes. Obviously, even on his big fourth down throw to number four to Rondelle Moore, the shot that Colt McCoy took, he hung in there and man, he just got lit up and he's still completed. Would ended up being that one hit of grab by ron Dale Moore is, you know, just

a perfect toss. What other takeaways did you have from that episode episode two last night? Well, yeah, Paul, you know, I mean, just Calvin Beach him, what a dog Calvin Beach him? Is the running with Leonard Floyd, And I mean, honestly, all game long talking to Leonard Floyd and just some of the things he was saying to him, Uh, you know, I just don't think of Calvin Beecham being that way. He's so articulate, he's so intelligent. You know, we talk about it all the time, bally hoo Hey, if he

ran for president, I'm voting for him. Hey, I wrote him in for governor. I wrote in Kelvin Beecham for governor. I'm even more convinced now. And just to see him out there totally in the face of Leonard Floyd, just trash talking him in a very matter of fact kind of way. The leadership. Also when he was talking to Lucidas Smith, right, play football, just play football. You know, I love the way that he was not joking around. He was speaking very directly. He was a little upset.

Beach has got a little something something coming out of the side of his neck. And that was one of my big takeaways. And you know what we should have figured because in training camp he had a moment in training camp there was an eleven on eleven red zone goal line session and he wasn't happy and he made it known when he came to the sideline. So that was good stuff. And yeah, you're right, the way he

talked to Lucida Smith the sixth round, rookie. How about Kyler Murray and what he said during the dinner, the Old Line dinner that Kyler attended, and he told Lucida's flat out, He's like, you're thinking too much. Just play and for Lucidas tab that sort of game. And I didn't look at the film and Aaron Donald wasn't over him exclusively. He was up and down the defensive front. But you guys did not call Aaron Donald's name a

lot in that game. No, you're right about that, Polly, and you know, listen, Lucida Smith has an awful lot of growth that has got to happen, of course in his career, but that was an excellent debut I think from Lucidas and Polly. Going back to your comment about Kyler Murray, I didn't even know that was Tyler Murray. I don't when it first happened, you know, because he

had the hood on and it didn't sound like Kyler. No, he was so definitive in what he was saying, and so a man, I was really really encouraged when I saw that. I love the way he was speaking to Lucidas. I also liked angry JJ Watt. You know, obviously the penalty wasn't good, but angry JJ is a good JJ and he was the best ninety nine on the field

during that game. So Moore please of that. And it was just interesting to see how nervous everybody was speaking a Lucidas Smith right, just with the situation at O line and facing Aaron Donald. There was some genuine nervousness and anxiety going into that game. Guess what going into episode fifty of the Dave Pash Podcast. This special guest is our own ron Wolf. Please it is available now. Be your podcast provider on Twitter at Pash pod Wolf. Do tell. I mean, what's this all about? You and

Pass on the pot? Yeah, we were talking about when Pass had hair on his head and not in his nose. We were talking about that, Pauli and talking about what it was like fifteen years ago and stuff like that. Holmes of course, had some really good jokes to play, you know, a lot of bloopers. We continue with a big red rage right after this. We have one hundred three thousand, four hundred and sixty seven on hand, an NFL regular season record. Wow, how about that for a number?

I wish everybody can feel what one hundred thousand people feel like on the field. Like you're on the field in one hundred thousand people are watching you. It's just different. Man. That's former Cardinals safety Robert Griffith. All the players knew the fans we're going to be a factor. El Grande, former Pro Bowl pass rusher bertram Berry. It really was a different energy where the fans were going nuts the entire time, whether something good happened for us or something

bad happened for us. I just remember the crowd yelling no matter what, they just wanted to see us go out there and play. I just remember being allowed the entire game in a good way. That people were so excited that there was an NFL game going on. In a general sense, they were just rooting for something big to happen. Every play. It felt like a big party. It felt like a big party the people that were just hungry to be a part of that first regular

season game outside of the US. Rolando Canto right there, former Cardinals offensive linemen talking about the first regular season NFL game outside the United States in league history two thousand and five, when the Cardinals beat the forty nine ers at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, which is where the Cardinals are headed again. That was straight from Cardinals Folk Tales, the Emmy Award winning documentary series. All I

have to do is search Cardinals Folk Tales. It's titled One Time in Mexico and you can find it at your favorite podcast provider. Paul klvc Ron Wolfley happen up this edition to The Big Red Rage percent of by Santanford in Gilbert. Well. If I don't know if he caught the quote from Antonio Hamilton earlier Cardinals Cornerback, he said, it's an extremely dope environment. Yeah, he repeated that a couple of times. Yes, I don't know if I can really use that and pull off that quote. Extremely dope

is how he described the environment. What do you think? What are you telling people about the trip? Yeah, you know, I like everybody else, So it was so incredibly loud, and I just remember all of the people. How many people can you jam into a stadium and how huge the stadium was. I was blown away by that also too, just what they would cheer at. Yes, as you know, once again, Neil Rackers was it was Neil Rackers was

it not poly I'm remembering that correctly. He was kicking off and weren't they all just going nuts as he was warming up and when he went to actually kick it off to start the game, wasn't it? I mean, they were cheering incredibly wild at that point in time. It was like he was the rock star and the rest of the Cardinals were his backup band. Yeah, it was like it was like Neil Rackers and the Cardinals. That's basically what it was. And you're right, it was

two hours before the game. We're doing the pregame show, like, well, what's the standing ovation for people losing their mind? And it's Neil Rackers just warming up and he hit And I talked We talked to Matt Prador about this today, actually yours, Julian Jim MoMA hundred. We talked to Matt Prador today and he said he remembered the story because see Andy Lee and I talked to Andy Lee yesterday was the punter for the forty nine ers in that game.

That was his second years. Andy Lee is one of two forty year olds to start this season, Tom Brady and Andy Lee, and he said he remembers Neil Rackers and Joe Nenny hitting seventy yard field goals in warm ups. Yeah, Paully, that's because what it's almost eight thousand feet Mexico City correct, higher than flagstaff. It's like seventy three hundred plus. I looked that up, I wonder, and so it's higher than flagstaff.

It really flies the ball. And so ay Prater said today, if he's tasked with setting an NFL record, Yeah, he feels confident in that atmosphere. Yeah, you know, it's going to be so interesting to see this matchup. Of course, the Cardinals against the forty nine ers. And when I think of the San Francisco forty nine ers, I no longer think of Kyle Shanahan and the use of twenty

one personnel and twelve personnel. I really don't. Yeah, they run the ball, and they still continue to try to attack the line of scrimmage in the North South Way. They're just not having a ton of success actually doing it. Even with Christian McCaffrey. Now again, I don't want to make it sound like he's not dangerous. You better believe he's dangerous. He'll take it to the house. But for me, it's it's really about their defense, Paul. I mean, that's

how good their defense really is. They're a physical team. You know that. Cliff has told us that how physical they are, especially on the line end of scrimmage. But man, that defense, on that front seven, Polly, it's probably the best in the National Football League. Well, they've allowed fewer than twenty points in seven o their nine games. They've held the opponent's scoreless in the second half of the last two games. They're number one in total d they're

number one against the run. They're the number four scoring defense. I'll say this though, they've had injuries in the second area, especially at corner, a couple of devastating injuries. If if you can get time for Cool McCoy or Kyler Murray. We have no idea at this point who's going to start. I mean, do you think with the Cardinals weapons that could be a real advantage, because, yeah, they just beat the Chargers, but the Chargers were without Keenan Allen and

Mike Williams. Yes, the risk reward is there? Is it not? Yes, you want to come out and try to throw the ball eleven times against the forty nine ers, I don't know about bad, Polly. I don't know, man, but to your point, that might be the only weakness on the defensive side of the ball. Here's the thing. Car swept the Niners last year. They've won eleven to the last fourteen against the forty nine ers, so we'll see they go in with a bit of confidence. Both quarterbacks beat

the forty Niners last year. Now, Jimmy g has been pretty darn effective this year. We mentioned how on third and eight plus he's second only to Patrick Mahomes. He's not really turning the ball over. So we'll see. It's gonna be a playoff atmosphere. That much we know for sure. Hey for Jim al Monro, Lauren Coble, Antonio Hamilton our special guest to night, Ron Wolfley of Paul calBC. This has been the Big Red Rage presented by Santanford in Gilbert.

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