Big Red Rage - High Expectations For Collins, Simmons

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Wolfley reporting and a lot of Arizona Cardinals. I'm not sure if you would call it jumping the bandwagon, but guess what, they're conspicuous by their attendants. There. They were in attendance, not just Larry Fitzgerald, the minority owner, but JJ Watt, who we'll hear from shortly, Kyler Murray and attendance, Cliff Kingsbury talking about it. So boom, there we go, and you know what, there were the Arizona Cardinals today once again doing their part giving us something to talk

about actually on the field. And if we're talking about making progress Wolf from twenty twenty to twenty twenty one, and you know, getting beyond the pandemic, well guess what we've already were already ahead of the game because they were on the field. There's actually an OTA to talk about from today. Oh how about bad BALI that is some good news right there. Ten OTAs, of course, cut down to three OTAs negotiated, it seems on a team

by team base. This It seems like that was negotiated right there between the Arizona Cardinals and the coaching staff. Speaking of the coaching staff, by the way, I shouldn't bury the lead. Bill Davis, linebackers coach, will join us momentarily. Linebackers coach Bill Davis, longtime defensive coordinator in the NFL. Do you think we have questions when it comes to Zaman Collins and Isaiah Simmons at the epicenter of the Arizona Cardinals defense. I've got a few, bolly about you.

I have big picture questions, I have small picture questions. You, Wolf, you better run the no huddle, Wolf, because I got a lot of questions. You better run the no huddle. Absolutely, Polly, that's what we're gonna do right there. Billy Davis cannot wait to talk to Bill Davis. All right, So takeaways from the OTA to day I was out there. I can just tell you this much. JJ Watt, as advertised, dude has a lot of killer watts if you will, the energy. I mean, he even volunteered at one point.

You might have seen the video where he jumped out to be a Scout team flex tight end. He's like, you know what that garbage can out there isn't cutting it. I'm or do what I used to do back in college. I'm going to do what I did in twenty fourteen, play a little tight end when I had three touchdown receptions for the Houston Texans, and then afterwards I'm going to describe it for the media. Here's JJ Watt just learning new routines and getting used to new meeting rooms

and new parking lot and new practice field. I mean, being at the same place for ten years, you have your kind of your routine set, and you know how things go when you kind of have a way of doing things. And so for me, you know, I'm following Zach Allen around and saying, all right, where do we go next? And how the hell do I get to the meeting room? And so this morning I actually driving

in to turn into the parking lot. There's like you can turn in and start parking lot and then you turn into the next one and it's like soccer fields. And I turned into the soccer fields today. So like anyone Wolf, anyone their first day at the office, they're kind of floundering around and trying to figure it out. He's out in the auxiliary parking lot when he needs to be in the players parking lot. You know he's

figuring it out. Paul. The best analogy I think you could possibly bring to bear in regard to JJ Watt and what he's experiencing right now is moved to a new country, Paul, learn a new language. Do all that, PAULI in one year. Go ahead, move to a new country, Paul, and learn a new culture, learn a new language. And you're going to find out exactly how JJ Watt feels

right now, because it's very very difficult. You're going through an entire different scheme, You're going through an entire process, an entire day of doing things differently and then trying to learn it through the prism of that language. It is very difficult. I couldn't even handle a week in London a few years ago and they speak English. I mean, come on, you know saiday right, No, that's not in England, isn't, Paul, That's Australia right there? But I get your point. Yeah,

and don't confuse Australia with Bernhardt's Psychomits either. It's Austria, okay, So yeah, that's right. Remember that as I can't wait to see Psychovits the very first practice. That's who I want to watch. I'm gonna follow Psychovits, Paul Wolf. You gotta follow me on Twitter because I'm sending out video clips that are going international film. Frankly, right, we only get to watch the first twenty minutes, so you know, you gotta be realistic, okay, and reasonable in your expectations.

Put it that way. But it was amazing to see JJ Watt out there for the first time in ninety nine and then speaking to numbers. There's Malcolm Butler in twenty one. Don't call him Patrick Peterson, It's Malcolm Butler. Buddha Baker rocking the three Byron Murphy in the seven, Chase Edmonds deuce in the number two, Wow, Isaiah Simmons wearing number nine, and then Wolf you had Robert Alfred out there, which I'll tell you what, at least in

the first twenty minutes he went through everything. So, hey, if you're telling me that Robert Alfred is actually healthy, because we know at least in the past he's been able to play at a high level win healthy, then look out. That's obviously a big key. Paully. Do not get me started on Robert Hill, right, because book you know exactly how I feel about Robert Alford. But to me, all the single digits that were out there on the

practice field, that had to be really odd. To see Buddha Baker running around in the number three, Paul, that had to be weird. To see Chase Edmonds wearing number two had to be a little bit weird. To see Isaiah Simmons and number nine, and we're not going to see number eight Palie that of course retired thanks to Larry Wilson. Yes, by the way, number six is James Conner. And so when you were watching the offense, you saw the new backfield, and then of course Chase Edmonds putting

the two in the one two punchlins. Cliff Kingsbury was talking about, you know, James brings a tough, physical, downhill running attack that he's been a proven, you know, tough yard runner in this league since he got into it. And the thing I like most about him and Chase their approach of the game. There's as serious as you can be out on that field, ultra competitors, and they're gonna push each other and give us a real one two points that I think is can really help us. Yeah, Polly,

I love that, I really do. I cannot wait to see if, in fact, this offense is tweaked just a little bit, if we're seeing more of the older offenses, more traditional offenses. When you hear Cliff Kingsbury saying he's more of a downhill runner, Polly, that means you're running more of a stretch scheme, you're running more of a traditional quarterback under center scheme, you're running more power schemes.

You're running what does that mean a downhill runner, Because it doesn't mean put him in the shotgun and here it comes the zone read. For the most part, it's more put him behind the queue and here we go downhill attacking the line of scrimmage. Is that going to happen? Is that what we're gonna see? That is my question.

I'll tell you what. When you see the left side of the old line from Djamfrey's Justin Pugh and then Rodney Hudson at center, you like the looks of that, and within their tough yards and short yard situations, you gotta figure they're going straight ahead behind the left side of the line. Chase Edmonds talking about how in his fourth theories helping the young guys, but also with a lot of experience, a lot of Pro Bowls from offseason veterans who are signed, He's learning from them as well.

Anything I can learn from James and kind of just pick each other's minds. I'm sure it'll happen as our relationship grows as friends and as teammates. So I'm super excited for that though, man, and I'm super excited just to learn from all the newer guys that we have for like JJ Wat obviously Rodney Hudson, I'm trying to pick his mind on just how he sees certain fronts, how he sees certain pressure looks. I wanted to become the best fotball player that I can be in the

best teammate I can be. Well, ideally, do you think Cliff Kingsbury wants to settle on a primary running back who gets the bulk of the carries? Do you think Sean Coogler wants one guy to win that job or do you see it being a balanced distribution of carrys also, sawly, I see it being a balanced distribution, I really do. I think that's going to be there, and that's what

fascinates me, Paul. When I hear Cliff Kingsbury say it's more of a downhill runner, well, are you gonna have are you can have schemes that include a runner that is a downhill brother, are you gonna have that? Or is it going to be more, once again, a shotgun and a lot of zone reads and RPOs. I think it's going to be a combination of the two, Paul, And I think you might have tendencies. Every team has tendencies,

Every offense has tendencies. At NFL Defense, Paul, all they try to do is break down offenses and their tendencies right down in distance, personnel groups, what plays do they like out of what formations. They try to break it down in a big time way and they do a great job of it. You have tendencies, and yes, halfway

through the season you're gonna change those tendencies offensively. But to me, you're probably gonna have tendencies when James Connor is your running back, and you're probably gonna have tendencies when Chase Edmonds is your running back. Now again, you're gonna run the same offense, and it's not going to be in all all the time thing. There are never absolutes, but you're going to have those tendencies when you have

two different backs that are actually going to be playing. Hey, just because they know what's coming doesn't mean they can stop it exactly right, Paulie. That is the whole idea of being better than somebody. Go back to twenty two and twenty three. Double right, Yeah, the arians. Yes, here it comes again and again, try and stop it, and we're gonna run it until you do. Hey, a reminder, single game tickets on sale now go to easy Cardinals dot com, Slash game TI sets game t i X.

Bill Davis Linebackers coach is next. It is the big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert We are satan Ford with In the twenty twenty one NFL Draft, the Arizona Cardinals select Zaven Collins, linebacker, tell us up, we really liked him. Our coaching staff, our scouting staff, everybody as a hole had him as one of our

higher rated defensive players in the entire draft. He also had an Alpha tag, which for us, the Alpha Bird tag is given to players that have rare leadership qualities, great end staying scrat field for the game, are tremendous locker room guys, and Xavin Collins is certainly one of them. You got to elevate all your game coming in as

a rookie to play at this level. You know, no matter where you're at, you got to elevate every single part of your game because those guys who have been here for four or five years, they know way more than you, and they're way better than you. They have efficient movement, they have him efficient minds. You can see

it whenever you watch them. There he goes, Zavan Collins, the first round rookie, preceded by the GM Steve Kim, who also shared with the media wolf that about a half dozen prospects in the entire draft had that Alpha bird tag. Zavin Collins was one of those guys. And it's all about you, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. It is the big Red Rage. We told you we're loaded like a Ron Wolfley dinner played around here. We

welcome on board the linebackers. Coach Bill Davis always a pleasure to talk with, Billy, and coach you tell us this time a year ago, you couldn't get anywhere near the gridiron, and you're coming off an actual practice right and ota on the field with pretty much the entire team, So that's got to be a step in the right direction. Absolutely, guys, we couldn't have been happier to be out on the

field today. It feels like a million years since we had a normal off season after this one's normal quite yet, but we're moving in the right direction, and it's just it makes such a difference to have those great athletes out there going through the assignments and stepping through them and physically doing the things that we're asking them to

do during the season. And it was a shame last year that a young talent like Isaiah Simmons couldn't get the reps and do all that, and the growth that happens. A lot of people don't really understand growth that happens in the off season with younger players, no doubt. Aby to coach, Oh my goodness, man, it's so good to talk to you. You had to be out there looking at Zaven Collins and Isaiah Simmons and coach you had to be drooling. These guys look pretty good, right, how

kid you not? Well, I can't, honestly. You know. My first takeaway and this was rookie minicamp, and because Zaven Collins came over near the sideline where us media pencil necks were standing, I'm like, this guy's a middle linebacker. He's six five, two sixty. Is that Does that present a challenge in anyway? Billy? Well, you know, it's it

kind of takes me back. Well, if you remember the days where the backers were all built like that, they were all up there and because you had to take on guards and there was more odd drums and it was just a different time and a different offense it was coming your way. So it kind of just takes

me back to early stages in my own career. You know, working with guys like Lavan Kirkland and those bigger guys, you could run that they had to be big because of you know, the downhill run game, the two back run game that was coming at you. So when I actually went to tall So to Zaban's pro day, the first thing that jumped out of me was the way in and the measure, and I said, oh, my goodness, this is a big boy. His head's big, his hands

are big as wrists are big. And I was really anxious to see him, moved to see how he carried that size, so pleasantly surprised how easily he carried the two hundred and sixty sixty five pounds. And I think that that went a long way in us, the evaluation of saying, oh, yeah, he is big and the weight is up there, but boy, it just it looks right and he carries it well, and that makes a big difference when when you weigh that much. So, Billy, how

involved was this practice? This ota practice? So how involved did you guys get? Were there any checks for Zaban out there? Oh? Yeah, absolutely. Now we were very limited what we can do. So what we do defensively is we set up a bunch of different barrels of eleven offensive players. There's three different stations, and we have the guys. We make a call and they line up to an offensive structure or formation, and they have to make all

their calls. So as they run from one to another to another, we give them different calls and a different formation. So it's a way that we kind of get multiple calls against multiple formational structures. And within Matt, each call

has some moving carts to it. And so far in the two weeks that I've had them, two and a half weeks, we put nine installs, and within each install there's about ten to fifteen calls defensive calls that you have to learn, and we've got through ten of them now and he's really got a great aptitude for picking up and understanding and digesting the scheme. So far, we're on board. Bill Davis linebackers coach, Arizona Cardinals. A big

red rate presented by satan Ford and Gilbert. So simply put Billy, what's the risk reward and given a rookie the green dot to call the defense from day one. Well, no matter how smart you are, no matter how football intelligent y are, a rookie year is a rookie year, and there's going to be growth that has to happen,

and the growth comes through error and stake correction. And sometimes the best lesson a young guy can learn is the mistake, like Isaiah in the first game against San Fran getting out of the leverage in the coverage of the running back out of the backfield that went for eighty yards. It's a lesson that he didn't he didn't blow that particular assignment. Again the whole year, those things happen. You realize they're going to happen when they start is rookies.

It happens to all positions. I don't care if you're the quarterback. I don't care if you're a receiver or a dB. I'll give you the first overall pick or a third round pick. You play your rookie year, you're going to have to grow through some mistakes. And again that happens because our game is different than the college game. The amount of defensive information that you have to process

in the mic linebacker position. The true art of playing the mic backer is the quarterback of our defense is the ability to communicate to all ten other defensive players their responsibility, meaning we have to set the front and that's how people get aligned. And then we have to make the secondary cause of where a pressure is coming

or where a stunt might happen. And within Matt, you've got to be able to align everybody up, communicate to what we're seeing in the offensive structure formation, and then when they motion, we have to make the appropriate adjustment to the motion. And oh yeah, by the way, after that, you have to do your own job at a high level. Most guys can do their own job at high level. It's only a few can line everybody else up and do their job effectively. Billy, how is Isaiah Simmons processing

this defense? And do you envision him being helped for Zavin? Absolutely, Isaiah's got a football mind. One of the things that I've never had a chance to talk about it very often, but Isaiah. Last year we trained Isaiah in six different defensive positions. We had the MIC linebacker, the MO linebacker, and the SAM linebacker, where three of the linebacker spots he had to learn. And in college he never really played the micer, the MO, the inside spot. He was

always more of the edge player. Then we trained him as a nickel the strong safety and the free safety and without an off season or a preseason game, so he had six positions to learn. Zaban has won Zavan learning the mic linebacker spot and through all that, Isaiah as the season went on and he got more and more comfortable with those different positions and all the different hats we had him wearing, all of a sudden, his mind slowed down and that body activated, and you saw

him make some plays. And we're really excited about an off season when Isaiah some preseason games and the growth that's going to happen there because he's got a really high football like you, and he's very one of the things you find and the more you coach and the more you're round in the game. Not everyone can go out there and have a relaxed mind but play fast. And Isaiah's got that ability. And when he comes to the sideline and he tells me it happened a certain way,

Isaiah's usually right. He calmly saw it, he recognized it, and he could give it back to me. There's some guys come side line and say, hey, coach, the left guard pull and the tight end slashed across the BACKFIELDE No, but it didn't And you look at the picture, said no, Son, it didn't even come close to happen. What were you

looking at? Well, Isaiah's the guy that when he says that it is what he said it was, and that's that's a good sign of him of his mind to being calm and being able to function that high level Bill Davis, Cardinal's linebackers coach. Here on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Forn and Gilbert a year ago, Isaiah Simmons had Devandre Campbell in front of him. So I don't know if this is classifying in form or not, but is he going to play six different positions this year?

Or do you see him sticking at that inside backer spot. Well, the home base will now be the inside backer Moe Dime spot, but we will still because he's a Swiss Army knife that it is very, very frustrating for an offense to see isa out there and not be able to identify his position. Is he the other safety? Is he the sambacker? Is he the mic? Is the mo? And really those identifications to an offense has a lot to do with their protections, has a lot to do

with how they're blocking scheme will online. So we find we get a pretty good advantage by moving him around a little bit as long as he can handle it. And he's proven, especially at the end of last season, that he absolutely can handle multiple positions. But the home base will be the inside mo or dime linebacker. Billy. Is this the most talented linebacking corps you've ever coached? Well, it's see August, and time will tell if it's the

most talented. If you if you talk about raw potential, yeah, but now as you know, well, they got to prove it in the NFL and they got to do it over time. That the true sign of greatness to me is playing at a real high consistency of doing your job and making a play when it presents itself to you. And that's what Zavan and Isaiah sa all time. I'm not looking for you guys to make the wild play

I needed. We have seventy five snaps that seventy of them are exactly the way they're supposed to be, and we may have You know, I've never coached a perfect game, so there's always a couple in there that you know they did something you hadn't seen, or we did it wrong. A little bit, but they are very high football like you, locked in instinctive inside backers, and I can't wait to see how far we could grow them into and watch

them in the next couple of years. Look, history says you're going the preseason, you'll see mainly vanilla offenses and skis. Do you ask Cliff Kingsbury to dial it up and get exotic and training camp to try and test those

guys in their football IQ? Well, just by the nature of our offensive with him just running his stuff, he tests us because he's got the four wide receiver sets, the three wide, the twelve, the two tight end packages, and then you have Kyler back there doing the quarterback run game, and so all of just facing offense, he doesn't have to dial anything up. He doesn't just by calling his installs, and we've got to meet the challenge

of trying to stop our own offense. Billy, where do you think those defense will improve the most from last season? I mean just a gut feeling of speculation on your part, yes, but a gut feeling. Where do you think it's going to improve the most? Well, we really felt good about the improvements we've made last year. We really jumped up in the rankings, and never know, we say it all the time. It's a scoreboard in the end zone. So points allowed per game are what we really have to

focus on. Our sacks were high. Our turnovers, I think are going to increase. One of the things you get when you get to two six four inside backers and who can move and run now is a quarterback when you try to hide the lowest and you've got a short little stop route in an end behind it, trying to throw over those two inside You're going to elevate your past a little bit to safeties are going to

get more balls, I believe. I think there'll be more tips and overthrows, and tips and overthrows in the NFL turn into interceptions. So if I had to pick one

area that we're probably gonna make some. And then you have JJ and there's baton balls left and right, and he's an erects havoc in there, and along with Chandler coming off the edge, I just think the quarterbacks are going to be under more drests and they're gonna have to adjust how they throw, which we get tips and overthrows, and I think our turnovers and interceptions should go go

up there and hopefully the points allowed come down. It was hard not to notice JJ Watt today, just his energy right even ran scout team tight end for you guys a little bit. And we know how Steve Kim has spoken to the leadership aspect of bringing him into the locker room. Do you believe in that because a lot of analytics guys say, ah, they dismissed the locker room and the leadership. What do you say about that? I think it's crazy. I think leadership as a monetary value,

just like a forty yard dash does. And I think the chemistry on your team is makes all the difference in the world between going deep into a playoffs or not making the playoffs. There's got to be a chemistry, a love respect, of mutual respect of each other. And you need leaders on both sides of the ball. Somebody asked me followers. So you don't need all leaders. You don't need a bunch of alphas that are going to lead.

You need one or two really good ones. And they're really good leaders are the ones that will do exactly what you just describe. I'll jump over and where a green hat and be a tight end. And I'm a superstar because above it, because I want the team. I put the team first. And when he does it now it's so much easier for a young kid that's trying to make his way to say, hey, I'm not embarrassed by wearing this, and absolutely I'm making us better and

it Leadership is natural. You can't fake it. Either have it or you don't. And JJ definitely has it, and it is a huge addition and it really makes us better from a lot of other areas that aren't the you know, the forty yard dash and all the other things. It's it's absolutely value. Just listening to you talk right there, Billy is just bringing back a lot of memories right there, because I had a coach that used to say, if you get enough dogs in a locker room, even the

cats start barking. You know. I love that saying, because you don't matter. That's all right, Bellie. Absolutely to your points. Sometimes you need followers, There's no doubt about it. Not everybody is going to walk around be a leader. It just doesn't work that way. Well, we're about a hundred days away from the Cardinals opener in Tennessee. Zavian Collins, Isaiah Simmons meet Derrick Henry at six three, two fifty. So that's when you know accounts for real. Billy, Thank

you for your time and the insight tonight. We really enjoyed it. As always, I appreciate you guys having me always my pleasure. Thank you. Coach. There you go. Bill Davis, a longtime defensive coordinator in the NFL. Cardinals linebackers coach and yeah, it's his task to get those guys ready

to go by September. We continue with a big red rage presented by Satan fourd in Gilbert Murray and Shotgun has the football short set, throws a deep ball left side single coverage and it is pulled in by DeAndre Hopkins and he's got a touchdown. Just want to throw by Tyler Murray and want to catch by Duke to put the Cardinals on the board with two thirty nine to go on the first Duke was one on one great throw by Kyler Murray, but an even read touchdown.

We said it's gonna be Russell Wilson or Kyler Murray, whoever plays better, that's who's gonna win this game. Snaps a Murray and he keeps it himself running left, got a defender with him at the five breaks, the tackle dives, ball comes out, but he crossed the plane. Touchdown Kyler Murray. Somehow Someway found a way to get that pig across Pater. Big time play Kyler Murray, and you know what, the NFL green with their wolf. He was the NFC Player

of the Week. That was the Week seven win at home against the Seahawks on Sunday Night where the Cardinals trail ten noth in twenty seven, fourteen thirty four, twenty four. They came back, they won in overtime, and on that thirty five yard touchdown pass to DeAndre Hopkins where the cameras caught him smiling. We think he was smiling. That

was the play. Remember Cliff Kingsbury told us on his weekly TV show that they stole from Ohio State and everyone sort of looked at the sideline and looked at like they were confused, and then boom, they snapped in through the touchdown. Yeah, that was absolutely brilliant right there, Paul. He's so many changes on the horizon. I think for this offense, I could be dead wrong, but I think at some point in time, you've got to reimagine re envision this offense and it gets me so excited with

Kyler Murray at the helm. You know, there's a few stats that came out this week. They continue to crunch the numbers Kyler Murray. He's the only quarterback ever with forty five passing touchdowns in fifteen rushing touchdowns. In his first two NFL seasons, he was knocked down a league low eight point five percent of the time on passing attempts. Last year, next Gen Stats had him rated the most

explosive ball carrier in the NFL. The most explosive meaning a minimum number of carries at least twenty carries of ten plus yards and you have to exceed fifteen plus miles per hour, and so he was number one in that category. I'm not sure what miles pro really factors in ultimately, but well, how much of that running game

and Kyler's legs do you expect to see this year? Yeah, that is a great question once again, Paul, It really is because if you look at Kyler Murray, I don't see them continuing to run him to the point in which we saw last year. And I think we know why Kyler is not the biggest guy on the face of the planet. And the more you expose him to some type of shot, the more damage is going to

be done to the body. And now, all of a sudden, if you've got Kyler Murray out there and he's missing games, your chances of winning games go right through the floor, Paul, for the most part, So again, you've got to be careful on this. You don't want to turn him into Michael Vick. And remember the word when Kyler was coming out was he didn't necessarily enjoy the design runs, the

called runs. He liked to sort of pick his spots right when he saw a light box or he saw dvs with their backs to him, and then he pull it and run it. And so curious, I maybe to your point, there's fewer design run spot he still has the green light to take off when he wants to and bluff Kingsbury today was asked about Kyler Marie's potential because we talked about it even back in the playoffs when he saw Baker Mayfield excel and Josh Allen excel

in year three, What about Kyler. No, he's been working really hard this off season to try and take that that big jump. I thought, you know, not having an off season last year. Rolling into season two, he made huge strides and then we expect him to make the same this season. He definitely is very confident right now. He's mastered our system. You can see, you know, the leadership qualities continue to emerge, and so we're all just really excited to have him here and watch where the

sink can go with him as our leader. And he was out there today. I know SI had written a little bit about you know what they're hearing that Kyler hasn't been in the Cardinals off season program. That was twenty four hours ago. Well, he was out there today and there was DeAndre Hopkins practicing as well. The two of them are running together and warm ups and then there were a ton of passes, you know, between the two of them over the co of an hour. And

so he's wearing a knit cap. It's one hundred plus degrees. He's wearing a knit cap out there. But you know, all eyes were on Kyler and that's the way it's gonna be all year. And he's the franchise quarterback. He's got to relish that position. You know, there's no data bot it. Polly. DeAndre Hopkins as well, it's going to be very interesting. My number one question for this offense with Kyler Murray is will it be more physical? Will we see a downhill runner in James Connor so to speak,

and Chase Edmonds for that matter. Will we see a more physical attack, an assault on the line of scrimmage when it comes to running the football. That's number one, Polly. Number two for me is gonna be DeAndre Hopkins and the alignment of DeAndre Hopkins and the movement of DeAndre Hopkins and the movement of this offense overall. Only thirty four percent of their offensive snaps last year had any type of motion to it, Paully, only thirty four percent,

which was sixteen percentage points under the league average. Think about that, Paulie. That is a big number right there, that only thirty of their offensive snaps had any motion to it whatsoever. I think maybe this is going to be another change to this offense going for I don't know that to be the case. I just suspected, paul You know, when you cite that stat you know what

I think of immediately. Rondale Moore, Yeah, I think of the round two pick and what they want to do because Come on, now, when Cliff Kingsbury arrive with the Arizona Cardinals, do you ever think they'd be below the league norm the league average in that category? Absolutely nut. So if aj Green can be that outside guy, and Frosty Rutger told us here in the Big Red Rage that's his pick for NFL Comeback Player of the Year,

we'll see that's obviously a best case scenario. Rondel Moore in the slot along with a Christian Kirk or maybe rondel Moore is that swing guy, that jet motion guy doing the sweeps and being the eye candy and and all that. Like you say, Wolf all of a sudden, Okay, maybe that unlocks DeAndre Hopkins, especially more than last year when he was getting double and triple team by the

end of the season. Here's Cliff Kingsbury on that. I do think, you know, it took the first half of the season to really kind of get on the same page, just not having time on task. And I think even out there today watching them communicate talk through things, I want to run like this, Hey, I can get him here. I think it'll be huge. There'll be a different comfort level with those guys. And I'm excited to see where it can go. No to talk about it, Bob, We

talked about this. You can agree or disagree. Really, the only guy's yards after catch a year ago on the Cardinals offense DeAndre Hopkins Chase Edmonds. Yeah, that has to be a bigger component of this year's offense. Hence, once again, Christian Kirk if he's fully healthy, and Rondel Moore, Yeah, Paul, you know what, honestly, Christian Kirk is a guy. You know what a big fan I am of Christian Kirk. And I just I wonder what happened that first half

of the season last year. Go back to it, I Paully. I think Christian Kirk had like six touchdowns in the first half of the season, first nine aims of the season. He was all over the place, and then all of a sudden, it just tailed right off in the second part of the season. And you know, listen, Um, I have no idea David Rye was let go as the wide receiver coach. I don't know if that had anything to do with it whatsoever. But Christian Kirk is a talented individual and a guy that I have not given

up on at all right now. But Rondale Moore. You bring up the Rondale Moore thing, Paul, this is scary is on the wall, Scary is on his way. That's Rondale Moore. That is exactly who he is. And hopefully he's going to be able to get vertical, get down the field. Maybe you're gonna move him around, give him

that running start, so to speak. Maybe you're gonna move him around and not let a defense actually hone in on him or try to jam him off the ball, and maybe he's gonna get over the top that that will be a huge benefit to Kyler Murray as well. And what's interesting in the division is not long after the Cardinals took Rondale Moore, Seattle Seahawk took Duayne Eskridge, a similar size type player out of Western Michigan, and then a couple of picks after that, the Rams took

two two at well. So right every one of the division teams save one the forty nine ers took their smaller speed guy who can excel in space. They all did it in a round two and then all three of them left. The six two ten receiver from LSU, Terrorist Marshall, who was top five all time in receiving touchdowns at LSU. He was still on the board in Carolina. Took him not unlike the old Andy Isabella dk Metcalf component from a couple of years ago. So that's going

to be a storyline all year. No man speaking of that DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, are you kidding me? They already got a ton of speed at the wide receiver position. Better hope they don't land Julio Jones. We'll come back. You know what. I've got an addition maybe on the radar for the Cardinals next pleasure and taking down Ja. It's picked up in the air running the other way. Where did is JJ one? And he is going to go eight blush yard for the touchdown. Full of street

left around. It's good trump by one picked up running with it to the fluty to the thirty, to the twenty. He's gone touchdown. What can he do? Look at it? Come behind? Here comes one second time. He has gone to the quarterback stafford back in the past books. He's out upside, intercepted by j j One and he's gonna take it in for a touchdown. He the man had three receiving touchdowns in two thy fourteen for the Houston Texans.

And there he was today at the Cardinals first ota out in that field, and he's running scout team tight end as we mentioned, and he's messing with Byron Murphy who was covering him, and he's yelling at him, you don't want any of this smoke, and he's trying to do an arm over move and wolf. In fact, with legalized sports gambling coming by the NFL opener September ninth, coming to the AC, I have a prop bet for you. Are you ready, Polly? JJ Watt will or will not

catch a pass for the Arizona Cardinals this year? Oh? He will? Oh yeah, there's no doubt about it. Really, Oh Polly, I fully expect Cliff Kingsbury to use J. J. Watt as a tight end, and not only listen J J. Watt. This guy is a physical, physical specimen. This is a physical dog. He enjoys the physicality of the game. Why not line him up as a stud tight end in line and let him come off the ball? Oh yeah, anything. The only thing was today he's running the nine route,

he's running the go route. He's gonna have to run a stop route and just get himself, his big body between the dB and the football. That's what he's gonna as. You can't wait to watch him play, Polly, Seriously, was he vocal, Paul, you were out there? Oh, of course today? Was he vocal? Was he? You know? He's leading with energy, He's talking to different guys. Remember Buddha told us a couple of weeks ago here on the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert, that JJ Watt came

up and consulted him. You know which guy should I talk to? What is this guy like? What is his personality like? And JJ Watt explain why that's important to him to know that. As one of the team leaders today, one of the biggest things is understanding who you're dealing with, because every single person is different. So it's all about cultivating those relationships and really learning your teammates on a deeper level so that when you do get in those tough times or when you do have to have a

tough conversation, you understand how that guy best responds. So while one guy may respond to me yelling at him and getting on him and saying, hey, you're doing this wrong, I need you to do it like this. Another guy may go into his shell when I do that. So for that guy, I may need to go put my arm around him and say, hey, I know you're having a tough time with this. Let me explain why that's not how it should be done and why we need

to do it this way. And then the most important part, in my opinion, is to be doing everything that you possibly can to help the team from your own standpoint. Wow, that is just so good right there, Paula. You've got to You've got to hold yourself accountable first, right, you got to hold yourself to a level that you don't

expect from your teammates. Paul You do that, and you will earn instant credibility inside that locker room so that you can walk up on a teammate and say, dude, what do you do when you're just killing us out there? And if you can't play, you can't lead. You know that, Wolf, So you know, And look, you talk about JJ Watt and the impact and you know better than anyone in the NFL's not a raw row league. I get it.

But if JJ Watts around, I don't think the Cardinals come out the way they did last year in weeks sixteen, I don't think the way they play the way they did maybe in weeks seventeen. I just I think that's what the decision makers think, and that's why they truly valued JJ Watt on and off the field and what sort of impact he can make this year. Here's Cliff Kingsbury today just talked about talking about his mentality as

a player and a leader. He's been great. Everything that you've seen and I've seen probably through the media in different outlets throughout his career. What you see is what you get. I mean, he's locked in all the time. He's a team guy, incredible work ethic, incredible leadership, and it's it's been a real joy to see him around the building. And he's been proactive in the community obviously it's Suns games and you know, and repping the Mercury

and everything else in the Pat Tillman shoe. So yeah, that's been a double thumbs up. What was interesting this week on the Red Sea Report is bertrand Berry was saying he fully expects Vans, Joseph too for the most part, separate Chandler Jones and and JJ Watt to try and keep those offensive lines honest, so they can't slide protection to one side or the other. What's your expectation, Yeah, Paully, No, that is a that is a huge statement right there

from a guy that knows pass rushing in bertrand Berry. Right, that's exactly right. I could see it, though. I think they're gonna work together as well from time to time. It's not always going to be a situation I think where you're going to have him on opposite sides of the ball. I think from time to time you'll move them and let them work some games, especially if you're you're trying to pen up some blitzes Polly, where you want to know this is where they're going to slide

their line now, will blitz from the weak side. I think there are times when you definitely will do that trying to set something else up for somebody else. But to me, I want to go back to jj Watt and what jj Watt was saying Paul on leadership, because the lead got buried for the most part. Notice he was he was talking about how he needs to approach his teammates and how you have to know your teammates and know how this guy responds and that guy responds.

But notice he was saying all that within the context of talking to your teammates. I mean that is to be That is what a true leader, a guy that understands his impact in his role. And you gotta ball out first, Paul, you gotta play. You already said that. You nailed it. Paul. You've got to go out and ball out yourself before you can walk up on somebody else. But make no mistake about it. What JJ Watt was saying is you need to walk up on your teammates. Has got to know how to do it. And look,

Chandler Jones wasn't there today. But I tell you what did get my attention was JJ Watt first team defense next to Jordan Phillips. And if Jordan Phillips is healthy and his measurables can match his production because he is such a large dude, and it can be so problematic. I mean, Wolf, if you have those guys on either end of your defensive front, there's gonna be a lot of single blocking for a guy like Jordan Phillips. Right, Oh my goodness, Yeah, there's no doubt about it, Paul.

This is right now. The Arizona Cardinals last year number five in sacks per attempt, number five in sacks per attempt last minus Chandler minus Chandler Jones for the vast majority of the season. So when you think of getting Chan back and JJ Watt and the impact that JJ Watt is going to have on not only the defensive line room in Jordan Phillips, but the entire defense, and dare I say the entire team? Man, I'm just really jagged up fault. I think it might have a Chris

Paul effect on this team. We'll see. Hey, speaking of the Sun's how about minority owner Larry Fitzgerald. You got any news on Fits? What's the latest wolf anything on Fits? No? I got nothing, Bollie. How about how about some news on zach Ertz. I can't tell you sources telling yours truly, he's been in the valley. Oh so what Doesn'tny work out here? Paul? Well, you could say, yeah, his wife's

a Mason native and so forth. But wait a minute, typically this time of year, he's not here, is my understanding. So oh, we'll see exactly Because June June first is coming gone, and now the Eagles can save eight point five million under the cap if they either cut or Trade zach Ertz TikTok Stay tuned on that one. Special Thanks Bill Davis. Special thanks Jim Almahundro and Cody Fincher for Ron Wolfe on Paul KELBC. This has been the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. Number one.

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