Big Red Rage - Keaontay Ingram Aims To Make Mark

and buy Arizona Cardinals podcasts. Visit Hacy Cardinals dot com, Slash podcasts, The Rods Rising Guard, Gimpertizing Vision, Flurring, Rage taking over. Here's Paul Kelvc. I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you I'm ready, and Ron will flat. It doesn't get any better than that. Unleash the fard. On this week's edition of the Big Red Range. Among other things, we learned that, according to Buddha Baker, Ron Wolfley and Buddha Baker have more than just one thing

in common. It's now two. You can double it. Ron Wolfley tread lightly. BOI, Well, first off, the first one's very good. It's a double thumbs up. You're both now four time Pro Bowlers and to start, Yeah, and as a bonus connection, Okay, you actually have both gone to Pro Bowls as special teamers, right because remember his first year he went as a special teamer. So he earns even more respect from you in that regard? Does he

not an excellent follow up? May? I know? Though? By the way, he's about to pass you with five, just like another former cardinal safety did in Adrian Wilson. A good thing for you, though Buddha Baker doesn't wear twenty four like Okay, now number two. We found out this week that both Buddha Baker and Ron Wolfley have also been known to go to a bar by themselves. Paul. It was the Dark Days ball stopped it for the

first time the other night. His alias was James M. Wolf went to a bar by himself for approximately four years, Paul. And so if they were got Dark Days, you guys have that in common. So spread the elbows. Are you looking at me? Are you looking at me? So there you go. It is the big red rage. In fact, Buddha Baker, I think we'll hear from him a little

bit later. As for this evening, you were going to hear from Rookie running back Keyante Ingram, We're going to visit with the running back out of USC going to be very interesting there as we both need to attack this show wolf like JJ Watt attacks those tackling dummies during OTAs. Have you seen those videos of JJ Watt going all out folly? I have, and you know, it just reminds me, it really does, of the models that

you have walking around your locker room. You've got guys that are leaders, of course, but it's all about doing. Any leader will tell you that you've got to do before you can actually say you've got to hold guys accountable, but you have to actually go about your business in a way that you hold yourself to a higher standard, Paul, then you're going to hold anybody else. And the way you can show that is to go out and work in the drills the way that JJ Watt works in

those drills. I'll tell you JJ Watson out there, Buddha obviously, zach ertz aj Greene, Isaiah Simmons. Do you notice Jeff Gladden. He's out there and he's wearing number twenty three, meaning the number formally worn by Robert Alford. So what does

that mean? Dot dot dot we'll see. Of course, not attending and making headlines has been Kyler Murray, the Cardinals franchise quarterback, and although Hollywood Brown, the new receiver, has been there earlier in the offseason after the big trade on Draft Day, he hasn't been there for this week's OTAs, and Cliff Kingsbury was asked about not seeing Kyler and

Hollywood together on the field. I've seen him together live and in person on the other team and it was not fun for me, So I know what it looks like. But now I think, like I've said before, I think as a coach, you want to have these guys here all the time, but it's just not how the rules are set up, and different guys handling different ways, and

different guys put voluntary into voluntary workouts. You look at the Rams that are missing Jalen Ramsey and Aaron Donald, the Niners are missing Deebo Samuel so guys for various reasons. How big a deal is a wolf that Kyler is not out there with at least some of his weapons. Yeah, listen, Polly, First of all, I'm going to say this, Do you think do I think I should say that it's going to impact the twenty twenty two season. I do not

if Kyler Murray is not out there in OTAs. I don't think it's going to impact the twenty twenty two season. I don't. That's just me. Could I be wrong on that? Absolutely? Having said that, Polly, I think it's a missed opportunity for Kyler Murray, who seize control of that quote unquote leadership wheel, so to speak. I think it's a missed opportunity. I agree. I don't think we're gonna look at maybe a close loss in September October and draw a parallel

back to the OTAs. At the same time, the chemistry and connection between Kyler and his receivers could have been better at times last year. AJ Green admitted as much. So,

you know what, any opportunity to work together. What's interesting is what you know Benjamin told us earlier this week on ninety eight seven FM Arizona Sports and I'm sitting in for you with Luke, and you know, Benjamin said that Kyler has actually had a lot of his own sessions in Texas with a number of the Cardinals receivers. So that's intriguing. So I guess he is getting work in that regard. So now, former Cardinals quarterback Drew stan

was on the Red Sea Report earlier this week. Drew understands the business side, okay of all this, and yes, there is a money factor obviously involved with the new contract hanging in the balance. At the same time, Drew didn't duck the question as to whether he would like Kyler mur at OTAs, and he expressed an opinion. You're the leader of the team. You're not here, and you know there's a business component who as well, So you

you understand that it's too bad. I think with the way that the season ended last year, I would have liked to see my starting quarterback say, hey, you know what, I'm not content with what went on that it's completely voluntary and there's you know, he has his prerogative to not be here. But at the same time, I would like my starting quarterback to be here working on stuff,

working with new guys. And so there you go. That's Drew stand thirteen years in the league as an NFL quarterback and so okay, you know that's where the Cardinals stand right now. And look, there are a number of other guys who aren't there. At James Churl or for example, heck four your five starting offensive lineman, right aren in attendance, DJ Humprey's Justin Pugh, Rodney Hudson, Calvin Beecham. So sure

you know it's Paulie. And that's why I say that, I don't think it's going to impact the twenty twenty two season at night. I don't honestly, Um again, would I like to see Kyler Murray show up? Absolutely, I do believe. I agree with Drew Stanton. I think it's a missed opportunity for Kyler Murray because, honestly, paul I think it would have been a great time to say, you know what, I'm not going to play for no

stinking five point five. All right, I'm not going to do that, but I am going to show up and I am going to play in practice in OTA's because what happened last year and how last year ended is unacceptable and because of that, I want to lead and I want to show everybody that it is unacceptable. But I'm not going to play for five point five. Yeah. And by the way, they picked up his fifth year option, which would pay him next year about thirty million dollars.

But you're right, they're not going to get to that point. Something will be done. That's not just my opinion. That's what Steve Kim was talking about on the Pat McAfee show. And here's what he said this week in regards to Kyler in a new contract. I mean, I just think it's a timing thing, Pat. It's you know, every quarterback that's done it before has done it from anywhere from July to September. We know that he's under contract for another year and also the fifth year option, and he

is our future. We feel that way strongly, and I feel like we'll be able to get something done this summer. And that's been consistent. Has it out well since early in the offseason. Whether it's Steve Kime, whether it's Michael Bidwill Cliff Kingsbury, that has been the consistent refrain is that it will get done. But they're targeting the summer. And those six contracts that he mentioned after third year quarterbacks who got the Mondo deal after year three, every

one of them was done in June, July, August, or September. Yeah. That's that's as definitive as I've heard Steve Kime on that. In regard to I think we're going to get something done this summer. Honestly, to me, I agree with him. I think that's probably when it is most likely to happen.

But once again, I need to come back to Kyler Murray and say, that's why I think it's a missed opportunity, because they've had to have some type of parameter set up in regard to Hey, listen, you know, here's the timetable. This is what we're going to do. When we get a round of the summer, then we'll start talking to you again. And I really do believe the Arizona Cardinals are going to come to some type agreement with Kyler

Murray in the summer. Yet again, here's the opportunity to show up and say, listen, yeah, if in fact you're not going to give me a new contract, I'm telling you right now, I'm not going to play for the five point five. But the way the season ended last year is really a burr under my saddle, and because of that, I want to show up and kick these OTA's off and do it the right way. I think

it's a missed opportunity. And if you're wondering why, it might take some time to finalize a contract like this. Did you see the Pro Football Focus in how they projected the Kyler extension this week at six years, two hundred and eighty million dollars with a buck fifty five guarantee that averages forty six point seven million dollars per season. So just the magnitude of the contract, it's not surprising that it takes time. And uh, those are some of them.

Those are the biggest numbers in contract. And you know a franchise history period episode thirty of the Day Pass podcasts featuring Cardinals defensive end JJ Watt available now just go to the Day Pash podcast wherever you get your podcasts on Twitter via at passpod. How about a rookie running back who studied film of James Connor in college and now he's going to get on the job training alongside James Conner. Right, he don't need no stinking film

because now they're teammates. Keyante Ingram is next. The Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert and running Back USA. Just to work at the character, all those things, to check all the boxes, can play special teams, big physical back and we just found he fit what we do and that role that can be your fourth guy that plays special teams and can come in and play

a high level on offense as well. And that is the head coach Cliff Kingsbury with a post draft scanner report on a rookie running back who joins us now in Keyante Ingram. And before we get started at Kyante, I'm going to hit you upside the head with a trivia question because someday one day you might join your head coach in the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame. True or false? Cliff Kingsbury is a member of the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame? Is that a factor?

Am I making that up? What do you think? I mean? Just looking at his swagger, just his demeanor, and then just looking at his portfolio, I can agree with that he was big time, big time high school quarterback, went to Texas Tech and then had a cup of coffee in the NFL for a few years of the Patriots and a couple other teams. But yeah, he resides in the high School Football Hall of Fame in the state of Texas, along with soon to be inducted Colt McCoy.

Your backup quarterback who's out there and then of course at some point Kyler Murray, Right, Kyler Murray's gonna be a member of that as well. In fact, you have a pair of state titles in high school? What four a state titles? Yes, I should have been three, but I got to. I got too because Kyler's got three. Yeah, So do you now you know Josh Jones Cardinals tackle Texas. Guy Vivila remembers when he was in high school watching some of the videos in the highlights of Kyler Murray,

Did you do some of that? Most definitely? I gotta admit to it. The things he did was phenomenal and wouldn't No, I don't think nobody in the state has ever done it either. So everybody was eyes on college, especially when he was coming through and then his senior year, it was like everybody kind of knew, you know, so everybody tune in at this certain point of time ago

watch Alan play. You know. So your older brother was a big time player, right, won a couple of high school state championships, and my younger brother, younger brother, okay, so you know, I know it was gonna screw that because you have nine sibil student or not? Yes, what was it? Like growing up for those guys like me who are just getting to know you, how do you describe that experience? I say interesting, You know, sometimes we can bump heads, but at the same time, it's a

family environment and that's just where I come from. And I feel like that's why coach Cliff kind of drafted me, just studying my background, just who I am as a person on very family oriented and that's the type of background that I come from, you know, leaning on each other's shoulder, so you think that's where you get some

of your competitive fire. By the way, and we're on board with Kante Ingram, you know, six round running back of the Arizona Cardinals, because I heard it setting here that you know, with all the cousins and the siblings, that some of the most intense sports competition was in your own family. Most definitely, all we did was fighting each other. We talked noise. I talked noise every single day, But it was fun competition, you know, and I feel like that's where it comes from. And then also I

had a lot of older uncles and older cousins. They used to chestise me a little bit, So I feel like that that's where that competitive is come from. So, so what's it been like. I mean, all of a couple of days, you had rookie mini camp, you had a few days here of OTAs. Give me some first

impressions of the NFL. Oh Man catching on fast. We gotta go fast, a tempo as far as like just attacking the details and just attacking perfection, you know, and make sure that I'm in this circle, this one units and this one puzzle, and I want to make sure that I'm coming in clicking that all cylinder. Especially when you got d you got Randell More, you got aj Green, then of course you got Kyler Murray and then the

mount of office line right in front of me. So when I step in that role, you know they're gonna expect me to carry that weight, you know. And that's one thing that I've been focused on, just my role, attacking the details every single day and just being consistent with what I do. If I said your biggest challenge right now it's the playbook, would that be accurate, I'll

say yes, yes, A complex, especially coach Kings. You know, offense, I mean it's going, you know, it's fast, you know it's not slow, And uh, that's something I kind of gotta feel of but just not up to this tifo, you know, So just getting a groove of that. I mean, football's football. It's the same legal it's the same depth on the route or reprogression, whatever the case may be. I just got to get the language down and I

can go from there. What sort of impression do you want to leave the coaches with before you go into training camp? A hard worker and a hard nosed guy, you know that back that coach King said I was. You know, I want to go prove that, you know, and I want to back up what he's say and also I want to prove a little bit more what type of really back I can be, especially being bigger, having a feat that I have, and then just being a bigger of a guy. You know. So how big

are you right now? Because they know at Texas you said once upon a time you're two thirty five two. I mean you don't look right now like you're anywhere near that. No, sir, No, say I'm two sixteen right now. I'll probably get up to two twenty when I go into the season. You know, that's a good way for me. But you pride yourself and having some traits of smaller quicker bats, correct, Yes, sir, like such ads like for example, I mean, you know you tell me, I mean, just

just tell me. I mean when when they were watching your film, because I've had a number of the scouts tell me that. Yeah, I mean your value in round six and what they see and what they view as a complete back. Do you see yourself that way in house? Most definitely, especially me being in a system that only smaller guys do play, especially being in the gun all

the time. You normally see guys like me in the pistol or you know, back deep, saving eight yards, whatever the case may be, and me just showing that aspect. That just showed you the versatility that I have in my game, you know. And then just step in this office, how they utilize me, flexing me out running, you know, little favorites. I ain't gonna say too much, but just being involved with the office, I feel like that's just my game. I'm just a football player, that's what I do.

And I'm from Texas, you know. But you had a bit of a different role at USC than you did at Texas. Correct, weren't you involved much more in the passing game? The screen game at SC, Yes, sir, um, just the approach, just the offense. Being an air raid office at the time and just having guys go this the way, this way, you know, take the distance, you know, and that was my road there at Texas. More blocking feelsical.

That's why I was a lot bigger, you know, two hundred and forty taking on defensive ends and linebackers and stuff like that. So I feel like I'm a type of guy that can fit in any system at any time and do whatever I need to do. Because you average nearly six yards to carry at USC, nearly a thousand yards rushing, you had five touchdowns, I mean that

was critical to your future. Getting that season at SC and getting the scouts to see the full extent of your skill set, I would presume, Yes, sir, I was very excited when I got the opportunity at SC, very thankful for just to show that aspect of my game. I'm not just a guy that can go in there and ram a defensive end on a linebacker, but also I'm a guy that go out there and kids screens

one on one with the linebackers. I can play with the defense a little bit when I'm sitting in the gun fire yards from you know, the snapcount, whatever the case may be, just go out of my progression. So I feel like I'm a very versatile player, and I showed that a little bit of its Yeah, Keanta ingram Our guests here on the Big Red Rage Cardinal sixth round rookie running back. So have you met James Conner yet, because they know you studied him a lot on film, right. Yes,

she was still waiting for that moment to meet him. Yeah, I'm still waiting for that moment to meet him. So I didn't go soak up his brain a little bit. So what do you know about him already or at least his game? What do you know about James Conner? And what are you looking forward to seeing in person? One thing I like about this game just about how physical he is. And I think you can tell about him being a six foot one, six foot two back probably like two thirty two twenty eight. You know on

that heavery ar side. And I like his demeanor. I like his attitude to the game, and you gotta have that attitude playing running back. You gotta be a hammer instead of the nail, so you could last a little bit longer. In the league. So I can't wait to

meet him, shake his hand and pick his brain. You say, shake his hand, and I know you watch a lot of Adrian Peterson, right, oh man, that's bring that up because he was a Cardinal's running back for one year and anybody around here would know if you shook his hand and our Jim momanro shaking his hand right out, I mean he would come in. He had the most fierce,

spice lock handshake I've ever experienced. Adrian Peterson. What did you respect about AP and just growing up watching his film because you're nodding right now, Oh man, just watch your AP growing up. That's a little bit of a role model. You know. I wouldn't saying a role role model, but I'd like to take things from his game and just how he interacted with the community and stuff like that. Me being in child and going to his camps and stuff like that. I want to go back and do that,

you know. So he touched me way farther than just on the field. Everybody can see what he'd do on the field, but that approach off the field just he struck my mind as a little kid, especially when he used to gave an autograph he adn't given me. He gave him my brother. But I'm telling them when I see him. But yeah, I just ada Peterson as a person, you know, and coming from where we come from. You know, he's an hour for while I'm from Palace Date, Texas and used to play him in high school all the

time and stuff like that. And just to see that how he make it from you know, where we come from, which is such a low chance of making it out, you know. I couldn't do nothing but study. I couldn't do nothing but watch him, especially just simple interviews, and then the comeback season that he had. I almost still watched that to the day. You know, so ap touched me where he father than you know football. So I read the book Friday Night Lights. I've seen the movie,

I even saw the TV series. But what was it like to be a star on Friday Night Likes? What was that experience like for you? I would say the expectation high. That's just Texas football in general. It's religion for us, you know, and that's all we grew up off of. I started when I was three, and I feel like, you know, that's pretty much all I know, almost, you know, but so you're a teenager and there's a lot of pressure involved, isn't there, Yes, sir, yes, sir.

It's everybody got an expectation. You could tell when you go to the barber shop and you just have, you know, small conversation what went on, and then you got the older guys talk about, you know, how they used to do it back of the day. So of course you want to go out there and lead a legacy and do it better than them. So the expectations, how the rivalry is something sare's nothing to play about, and the fans love it and they pack it all the way

to the fence. So all right, Well, speaking ap and James Connor, if you're in the open field and you're one on one with a dB, would you rather run around him, give him the head, fake the head and shoulders or lower the boom? What's your mentality? I would say, depends on the situation, because I love laying the boom. I love taking a person's wheel, you know, over and over and over over over again, you know, So I

would just say, depending on the situation. But if it's five seconds left and we down about three, of course you're gonna over and I'm gonna go with so so another true or false? You can wear down the defense and it does take a toll by the time you get to the fourth quarter. When you're running a pound game rushing offense, true or false. True, you've experienced it. Yes, I love it. That's what the old line always calls it,

the pound game. And you know what, you want to keep your old line happy, right right, So if you're running the ball, and it's interesting because Cliff Kingsbury has made it known in the offseason. When the Cardinals offense last year was at its best, it was running the ball. It was the Week four win against the Rams, or they ran for more than two hundred yards. It was the win against the Cleveland Browns where they ran at thirty seven times, or winning against the forty nine ers,

or they ran at thirty eight times. So do you sense that because you mentioned Arraid and I think there's a misnomer about Cliff Kingsbury's offense that it's passed first, second, and third. But that's not necessarily the case. Isn't you get that sense in the meeting rooms that you know, run is going to be our priority this season? Yes, sir, I feel that most definitely, especially to stay on schedule. Just be balanced, you know, you just can't always focus

on a pass. And then too, we need those reggae yards at time. So instead of having a small slip screen right, not give it to the big guys and let him do the derby regga exactly. Keanda ingram Our guests, the rookie running back out of USC and Texas, all right, off the field, give us a scutter report. You know, these hard Knocks cameras are going to be here at the end of the season. What are they going to discover about you? Other than you have a great smile.

I'm telling you right now, you're gonna be a candidate for some screen time over there. Keande Bud. What are they going to find out about you? What do they like to do off the field? They're gonna realize that I'd love what I do. That's just a lifestyle. That's just who I am as a person. You know, I feel like I'm a type of person in world, my emotions on the sleeve, regardless of if I'm own the

field or off the field. What you see is what you get, and I feel like it Hard Knocks they'll see that I mentioned in the press convers that you're intrigued and you're curious about various cultures, right and ethnicities. I could see you working your way around the locker room and just getting to know guys. Is that something that you're prone to doing, Yes, sir, and I'm doing

it right now. Trying to earn the team trust. That's my first goal, you know, instead of being a start and running back, I gotta earn the trust and the guys who you know, listen, you know, I'll go up there, talk to him whatever, just to pick their brain, show him where I'm from, and just get a feel from it, and just naturally do that over time, you know, eventually lead to the older guys. But also I got to

earn their respect at the same time. So I'm just migraine through the locker room at my own speed and just getting the field for the culture and just people in there. You've got any advice from anyone, any NFL guys currently or anyone in your life, anyone give you any advice about this opportunity? Well, you know, of course, you know form a Longhorn coach McCoy, you know, he assisted like focus on the details. You know, everybody's good,

everybody can run. Everybody's big, you know, and everybody's smart. But it's all about who's more consistent and who focused on the details a little bit more so hearing that for how long Cope didn't leave ten to twelve years? Absolutely yeah, I mean he's thirty four, thirty five. Yeah, and he was a legend at UT, wasn't he. I mean a four year starter at Texas? Right? Yeah. I told him the other day. I was like, I asked about the situation against Alabama. What happened that situation? He

told me that he he seriously got hurt. And I told him, I don't remember when I was a little kid just watching the TV, Go go go. You know, how'd he react when you told him you watched him as a little kid, How'd he react? He didn't feel Oh, so he thought, yeah, no, he's a really good guy. He's a really good guy. Kante, We enjoyed it. Thank you, yes, sorry,

thank you for having best to luck. There's kant Arringham Cardinals rookie running back, and we will come back and continue with a big red rage presented by Santan four In. Gilbert keeps up on the football this time. Of the two backs set on first and goal right is Noah Red. I'm gonna give it up. Carol Williams scutting right into the end, Chance City. Carol Williams, smart and tough, cutting

back to his left home, sparking up the calls. Right foot in front of the left of the near hatch takes the snap post of the flat Darrel Way at fifteen ten touchdown Kansas City, the Raiders Stewart covering Darryl Williams. It's a twenty three yard touchdown on a flat route. In yards after the catch by d will I'm out of the Chiefs Radio network right there, smart and tough, quoting the announcers. He can run and catch a complete back Darryl Williams, and according to reports, he'll soon be

an Arizona Cardinal. Very interesting what this running back room looks like. Ron Wilfley, Welcome back into the Big Red Rage featuring Kyante Ingram, the sixth round rookie running back out of usc in, Texas. We just heard from maybe a few impressions, Walf before we get into Darryl Williams, would you think of Kyante Ingram? Well, first of all, PAULI nine sibs. Okay, what well, that kind of blew my mind right there, Bully. The fact he's two hundred

and sixteen pounds. I'd like him at about two twenty five. I'm just saying that's me, my own preference right there. He knows what he needs to play ed he said, two hundred and twenty I think is what he wants away. I thought that was interesting, Paul. The fact that he has been in an air raid scheme and he has been in a more traditional offense as well. I kind of like that. The fact that he loved James Connor and has studied James Connor on tape. I thought that

was very very interesting right there. The attitude that James Connor brings, of course to the football field. PAULI, let's hope that he has that attitude because that will serve him. Well. Yeah, he not only loves the film of James Connor, he loves and I quote now laying the boom. I love taking a person's will quote quote. So I know that

wedding words, Paul. Yeah, it's music tears right there. And you know what, I like the self awareness and I like the fact he's Humble a lot like Lucida Smith where he said, I'm trying to earn the team's trust right now, That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to earn the older guys respect. So I like that. You know the fact he's been playing this game since age three, but he doesn't have some inflated ego. He's

coming in. He realized he's gotta work, he's gonna earn and you know, the faster tempo sounds like that's the biggest challenge for him, along with the playbook. But not only do you have to know your playbook. You know you it's instant with Cliff kingsbere you here to mention that a couple of times, you know they're going they're not messing around and so on that note, Polly, right there, Colt McCoy the advice he gave him, whoever, it's more consistent.

You've got to be consistent, Polly. It's so important that you are consistent. And whoever focuses on the details, man, I mean, that is what Colt McCoy told him, and that is some excellent advice right there. Are not a surprise. Yeah, as you know from ten years in the league. Everyone's big, everyone can run. You know, it's about those details, the

attention to detail. Can you earn the coaches trust like Cliff Kingsbury and and we know, especially in the absence of DeAndre Hopkins, it is going to be a priority to run the football. Here's the head coach. We gotta be better at it. We didn't run the ball great late last year when we need to. And that's when you look at those teams that made a run. They were able to still sustain the run, especially when you lose a top sifer like that. So we got to

be able to establish that early. Yeah, it wasn't just losing the under happins down the stretch. It was losing that balance, losing that balance on offense. We sighted in the interview with Keante the games that Cardinals won big, some of those slugfest games they ran at thirty five to forty times for one hundred and fifty hundred eighty over two hundred yards. Those were the big wins. Paulie, you saw it. I mean you were right there standing

on the sideline. Those were the best games the Cardinals played, absolutely by far and away, the best games they played when they were running the ball and had a run rate that was number two and number three in the National Football League. Here it is the air raid. No, it wasn't the air raid. It was the run raid. They were running the football an awful lot and they were doing it in between the tackles. Man. They got to get back to that, Pauline, I think that's the

direction they're headed. Just a guess. Think about the win Week nine at the forty nine Ers, where the Cardinals have won six out of eight in Santa Clara, by the way, in the history of that stadium. That's why I marked it down as another home game the season finale this year. But that aside, Cardinals ran at thirty nine times for a buck sixty three. That's four point two yards of carry against the Niners in Week nine, and with backup quarterback Colt McCoy. You know what his

passer rating was one nineteen. You'll tell that all day. It's amazing how those two numbers go hand in hand, right, So, yeah, it was, and execute the offense also too. You're right, But look at the running back room now. Suddenly it feels a little crowded, doesn't it? A little bit? Right here? Because of Jonathan Warden because of how well he plays in transition, and you know, Keante Ingram is going to get every opportunity to come in and actually stick on

this team, you know, is an ultimate practice squad. I do not know, but you know Benjamin being there, You know, Benjamin reminds me so much of Chase Admins and they used to hang out together, Polly. They were very similar players to me. But Jonathan ward I think is a better special teams player. Now you got Darryl Williams backing up James Connor. Suddenly that running back room feels a little crowded, and Daryl Williams might be earned in the

veterans minimum. But don't think the Cardinals don't think a lot of Darryl Williams. I mentioned you earlier this week about how some folks I talked to that if the Cardinals had lost James Connor, they were possibly targeting Darryl Williams as RB one that they love, how he's able to be a complete back run it catch it the fact they'd had thousand yards of total yards from scrimmage in that offense with all those weapons. He only started

seven out of seventeen games. Right, But the touches he got he made the most out of everyone he got. He can run, he can catch in and they love his mentality as well, they say in terms of his football character, just the mentality. It's off the charts. He is a dog. Hey, there's no doubt, Polly. And remember Clyde Edwards Laire, he's the guy. He was the RB

one there. Darryl Williams was getting some work behind him, and when Clyde Edwards Laire went down, you had that RB one to your point in regard to Darryl Williams, and he had some key postseason experience in some great games in the playoffs in two twenty. So they're getting a proven entity in Darryl Williams. That is a very intriguing signing, into your point. When you look at the room and if there's gonna be an odd man out, I mean, you know, Benjamin better find himself a place

on special teams, don't you think? Yeah, Paul? I mean, honestly, if you're a backup in the National Football League, take it from one that played ten years. If you're a backup, Paul in the National Football League, you better be balling out in transition. Yeah, Hey, Arizona Cardinal season tickets available now. Just go to Acy Cardinals dot com slash season for more information. That's Asy Cardinals dot com slash season for

more information. Yeah. That info though, that I got in Darryl Williams, I found very intriguing because you know, James Connor was so valuable, especially in the red zone effect. Speaking to Chase Edmonds, you remember what he told us on this show about a year ago this time. He said, you know what it felt like before James Connor, that third and one, third and two was more difficult than third and five, third and six. So they were able

to resolve that. Obviously, he had eighteen total touchdowns. He was a big answer in the red zone. But now you have another guy in Darryl Williams, and we'll find out what the Cardinals having a Kante Ingraham and Jonathan Ward was coming on the end of last season before he suffered the concussion that ended his season. He's back to one hundred percent. Hell, so there you go. Something else the Cardinals had like they had in twenty fifteen

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I see, you know, the all access cameras all over a training camp, except now it's going to be during a regular season. Welcome back into the Big Red Rage, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Paul KELBC, Ron Wolfley, and Wolf Need. I remind you the last time the Cardinals had all access, they had cameras everywhere documenting an actual season. It was all or nothing twenty fifteen when the Arizona Cardinals went thirteen and three and advanced all

the way to the NFC Championship Game. And I wonder if that memory, that recollection is in the mind of the decision makers. And then when you combine it with a fact that these cameras will pick up and document the latter half of this season exactly where last season this season before it tailed off, I wonder if there's a direct correlation. At least that was my immediate reaction while I was filling in for you. When the news came down this week on Monday nine eight SEINFM Arizona Sports.

I said, you know what, that makes a lot of sense to me because if I'm trying to figure out how can I combat a late season fade, let's bring in the cameras. Very interesting, Polly, because once again, you know I'll disagree with that, but I do it respectfully, Polly. Listen for the fans, Oh my goodness, this is gold mine. Right. This is the greatest day of my life. For if you're an Arizona Cardinal fan for Hard Knocks to be doing this in season, this is going to be one

of the greatest viewing moments of your life. As as an organization, I think it's it's great for the brand, provided everything goes okay. I think it's fantastic for the brand. What a great opportunity. As a player. This is not going to surprise you. I would have hated this, Paul. I would have hated it. For me. I want to show up at work, I want to walk around work, and I want to be myself. I don't want to be censoring every move. Should I do this? Should I

not do this? Because there's cameras everywhere because there's microphones everywhere. I don't want to parse every word. Should I say this, should I not say this? I just want to show up and be myself at work and go about my business. That, to me is my perspective. Is that the perspective of players today. Probably not. But you know what, Ron Wilfley, guess what. This year you and your fifty two teammates are going to have an extra layer of accountability and

it's gonna be writing your phone now. So to your point, Steve Kim said it in the last twenty four hours in the Pad McAfee show. He said, and I quote, it's great for the brand, it's great telling the story about our players in different staff members. But then Steve Kim continued and he added, I don't think it ever hurts to put an extra camera in somebody's face, used to try and get the best out of them. End quote. And then here's your head coach, Cliff Kingsbury. Earlier this

week when he's he was asked about hard knocks. We obviously struggled back after last season. It has an opportunity to come in and guys will perk up on the cameras around you don't want to look bad on a camera. It's just kind of human nature. And so if, like I said, if we approach you the right way and still continue to be our authentic selves, I think can be a real push at that point, and he cited the Colts who were three and five a year ago.

The cameras came in, the Colts ripped off six out of seven now bust in the last two weeks, a tough one against the Raiders, an inexplicable, heinous loss in the season finale at Jacksonville to cost Carson Wentz's job. And I'll tell you what that was some compelling viewing the finale last year of Hard Knocks, because I mean some of the looks on the faces of the decision makers for the Colts, the owner to Versae in particular, Wow, you realize why hashtag there will be blood in the

Colts off season? Yeah, you know, Polly, honestly right now again and no disrespect whatsoever, you know how I love Cliff and I love Steve as well, Yet at the same time I would argue with them on this one. If you need cameras and microphones to get dudes to go out and do their jobs. Maybe you're bringing in the wrong kind of dude, Paul. That's all I'm saying

right there. That would be my argument now is that the reality in today's NFL is that the reality with today's player I don't know, but inside that locker room, I need players that are going to keep players accountable. I need guys that are gonna look at each other in that locker room and say, dude, what are you doing not cameras and Mike's well, and I don't disagree

with you. Well, and I think you can look at the players they kept in the offseason, the James Connors, the Max Williams, okay so, and then the guys they brought in like a Will Hernandez and now most recently a Darrell Williams, who have reputation as is just all

out intense dudes. I get it. But at the same time, it's been two years running where the car that faded down the stretch losing five out of seven and then last year five out of six including the playoff laws and then listen to what Bruda Baker said this week to the media just on getting to seven and zero, ten and two. We're just taking it one day at a time, you know, one week at a time, and

if we can do that, we'll win. You know, you guys saw us do that first, you know, eight nine games of last year, and I felt like guys possibly might have got comfortable, you know, a lot of headlines, a lot of guys, you know, a lot of wins, you know, and all that type of stuff. But it's up to you know, us as professionals to ignore the noise and just to take it one week at a time because if we do, you know, we believe we're

a great football team. And this year, I think we're gonna be a way better team than we were last year. That's quite a statement at the end, Bruda Baker is saying we're gonna be a way better team than we were last year. There's a lot of meat on that ball, and that's interesting. But in regards to the hard knocks, I'm just saying, from the outside looking and wolf, I think that this is a football decision. It's not just

marketing and branding and content for the fans. That's great, but I think one of the side benefits is that, as Cliff Kingsbury said, he used the word in motivation, you know, if it's an extra bit of motivation, then all the better. Yeah, you know, PAULI again, I will disagree with you, and I would disagree with Steve, and they already know that they do it all right, but they know that I would disagree with that only from

the standpoint I see it as a distraction. And one of the things I learned in regard to playing for Bill Belichick was two things. Do your job. That was number one, do your job, and number two was never bring a distraction into this locker room. Don't ever do it. And I think it's the definition of a distraction. Now again, does that mean it's going to doom the Arizona Cardinal season?

Heck no. As a matter of fact, to your point, right, the Indianapolis Colts, they got a lot better when those cameras came in there and in the microphones came in there. I'm not saying that. What I am saying right now

is for me personally. I would not have liked that at all because I'd be censoring my every move and I'd be parsing my every word, and I just don't know if that's the best way to actually get ready and be real with your teammates as you're trying to get ready to play the forty nine ers or play

the Los Angeles Rams, or anybody else for that matter. Well, and to your point, if this team hadn't gone thirteen and three and gone to the NFC Championship Game in twenty fifteen, when they all or nothing cameras were embedded with this team and behind the scenes every step of the way, then they probably wouldn't have the comfort level to welcome the Hard Knocks cameras in HBO into the locker room and beyond right, So, I mean there is a precedence set that the team was able to ex

They had a veteran quarterback, Carson Paul had a veteran team as well, PAULI, they really did. They had a lot of leaders in that locker room. By the way, to end on a lighter note, you see the Cardinals Twitter account and they put a camera outside the locker room when guys are coming in from the practice field after TAS and the question that was posted that the guys responded to which actor would play you in a

movie about your life? The best answer it was Cliff Kingsbury because and he said, Ryan Gosling I really have to do is split the screen. I mean, that's just when they have their sunglasses on. You can't even tell the difference between Gosling and Kingsbury. Paully, Can I just tell you right now, of the thirty two head coaches in the National Football League, there probably would have been two coaches in the NFL to actually respond Clifford Spot. I mean, that's what I love about the guy. That's

that's who he is. Man. Yeah. The most popular answer was Denzel Washington, by the way, if you haven't seen it, including J. J. Watt, who offered up Denzel Washington. Uh, there was Omar Epps, there was Sinbad AJ Green said Chris Tucker for himself. Isaiah Simmons said the old Will Smith, not the new Will Smith. So there you go. I think, I you know, it's obvious, you know, in my case Wolf that it would be like Matthew McConaughey. I think it was what most people think, not Dick Drawn by

the way, not the old Buffalo Bill's head coach. I don't want to hear that Dick Dron comparisons ever again, so I don't want to hear that noise forgot about the bad Pul. You are Dickon. Just stop it, Just stop it. Honestly, has anybody ever seen Paul Calvic and Dick Geron together? That's what I ask. What they need to do is print out the new Peter King Football Morning in America power rankings where the Cardinals actually rated behind the Lions in the latest power off. That's what

they need to put up on the camera. Get some reaction to that noise to put it up on the wall. Paul Arizona Cardinals singal game tickets available now at Easy Cardinals dot com slash tickets, Single game Ticketsasy Cardinals dot com slash Tickets. Special thanks to Keyante Ingram, the rookie sixth round running back man. You hope he is a contributor this season, no doubt about it. Special thanks Jim Almahandro Zach Larson for ron Wolf play on Paul Calves.

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