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santan Ford and Gilbert. It is welcome to Rondale Moore, who joins us here on this edition, fresh off what you endured rain at practice and then you had to wade through all the hard knocks cameras that are outside the studio here. I mean, there's a little something flying everywhere at this point of the season, Rondale, how are we doing? Good? Man? Appreciate you guys have me excited to be on. Yeah, I'm doing great. Yeah, Ron'll thank you so much, but I really do appreciate it. Linton,

you were born in New Albany, Indiana. What was that town like, man Um, It's a smaller place pretty much. Everyone knows everyone. Whatever business you've got, I'm sure someone else close to you knows as well. Very um. Tighten it again, everyone knows everyone. So not a big town and it was a nice place to grow up. Would you pick up first a football or a basketball in Indiana? Basketball because you are in a high school state title team, right,

What was that like, especially in Indiana? Yeah, no, it was super dope. Um, I've got some some guys that I played with it I'm still really cool with to this day. Obviously, Romeo Lankford ended up going like fourteen to the Celtics and I think he's with the Spurs now, but um, he was on that team so that was super cool to see him play and things like that. So that was a cool experience. So Rondelle, were you were you point Were you the point guard? What position

did you play on that team? Yeah? Now, I played, um point guard. I wasn't really the guy um or so just out there, you know, sharing the sharing the rock and playing defensive. Be honest, if you guys want to stay tuttle, you're probably rock stars at that point, right. Uh, yeah, you can say that. It was. It was. It was pretty cool obviously, the Whining State championship obviously in the city of New Albany and come back and then everyone

just recognizes you simply because you were on that team. So, um, that's pretty cool. That's crazy. I still have people who recognize me from that team and like have no clue like that I transferred and now I played football and that kind of stuff. Yeah. Now, I'll go home and someone to talk about basketball and just be like, hey, oh my goodness, kid, can you dunk? Rondelle? Yeah? No, really? Yeah? How old were you when you first dunked? I mean I was older. I was probably like a sophomore in

high school. Did you ever ripped one off in a game? No? I never got one in a game. No. So wait a minute, Rondell, you're telling me you're what you're You're all five seven? Is that what it is? Eight? Okay, you're five eight. I'll give you that, and you can dunk, right, I mean, just I'd love to see that. Okay, but wait a minute. When you realize his viral video what your freshman year produced, sophomore year whatever it was where you squatted six hundred pounds. Yeah, then okay it kind

of makes sense. The leg strength, Yeah, it goes hand in hand. I like to say that definitely helps for sure. Tell us about by the way, because I remember asking you about this before the Eagles game, and Rondale Moore is our guest Cardinals receiver. We'll get into the football here in a minute, but you gotta tell me that story again about how when you were in the squad rack, you're gonna try six hundred pounds, and by the time you were done, you were saying, I'm never gonna do

that again. So tell us about the in between, because I brought it up because yone hurts do the same thing the Eagles quarterback. Yeah, a few things. Obviously, I think I did. Like I think your original question was, you know, how do you just decide when day you're gonna do six hundred pounds? And for me, it was like, and in college you max out. Obviously you don't do that much in the NFL, but and college you have these max out days, whether that be upper body, lower body, whatever.

So um, we were squatting, of course, and I think I was at five hundred. I moved it pretty easy. I think I went five to fifty. And at that point it's just like you want to go ten pounds or you just want to go six hundred. So I'm like,

let's just give six hundred a ride. And what I was telling you when I when I unwracked it, as I'm like backing up, I can just feel my legs just like shaking like crazy, and I'm like, oh, I gotta locked this one in, Like I can't keep moving, and then I proceeded in squad and it just took me lower than I actually wanted to go. So it was kind of tough getting out of there. But yeah, that was kind of a backstory on it all. That is incredible, Rondel. What about your bench? What's the most

you ever benched for? Five? Who? Man, that's incredible. Well, if we'll have a breakout session later where Rondelle and myself can tell you all about weightlifting. Okay, a little bit later we'll get into that. We do have a football game to talk about at Minnesota, and it was let's just first get into the touchdown. Okay, my postgame interview with Rondelle was so miserable, Ron Wolfley, how miserable

was it? How big a fail was it? I don't think I even got around your thirty eight yard touchdown? So you take us. It isn't often a life you get a chance to redeem yourself. So here we go. Tell us, Rondale, if you would about the thirty eight yard touchdown. From snap to finish, I basically had a little snag route. It was zone, sat in the zone, caught it tight turn. We do a draw all the time in practice that you know involves like balls, security and drop step in and things like that. So Hugh

shout out the fits there. But I kind of did that and then I saw like three guys and try to just take an angle on the safety to move them a little bit, and I, uh, fifty four went for the ball. Seven I think, Uh yeah, seven was on my right. Patrick Peterson, Yeah, And I don't know, I thought I was tackled, to be honest with you, I just kind of tried to keep moving my legs and then somehow got out of there and uh yeah, ended up in so so Rondelle was last week's game,

the best game he played as a pro. Uh probably the Minnesota game last year. Yeah, because yeah, you had eight receptions for one hundred and fourteen and a touchdown as well last year. What is it with you in the Vikings? That's a great question. I'll take it, though I don't know. You know what the question is, why don't the Cardinals make that happen more often than just the Vikings. In fact, that was the question of Cliff Kingsbury about Rondelle. You know, he's dynamic. We gotta find

ways to get him the ball in space. And he has ability to do that on any and every play, and so it was good to see. I'm glad he got to have some some positive plays. I think that's gonna, you know, help him moving forward. And the report of the quarterbacks obviously growing now that they've been on tasks together for a couple of straight weeks. Yeah, I mean you did miss the first few games right with a hamstring.

So you tell us how much of a process is it getting in sync, getting in rhythm with your quarterback, any quarterback? Yeah, it's huge plays a big partum obviously, just building that rapport and continuing to have reps and just dialogue in between, you know, each and every practice. So I think that goes a long way with just being able to trust someone know when he's gonna do this, when he's gonna do that. How many steps does it take him to get flat out of a in, cut

outbreaking out, whatever it may be. So just kind of those certain things play a huge role in just getting on the same page with one another. So Rondell here it is your second year, of course, or um, how is this season going for you personally? Um, it's good man, I can't complain. I'm in a great situation and bless man, I great staff, great teammates, love coming to work every day. Obviously Arizona is a great place to live as well,

So no complaints on this. And and with d hop back, how's it different because you're not that far from him in the locker room. Obviously you're in the same huddle. I know. I think was Eno Benjamin who told us a couple of games ago, it's like having a second quarterback in the huddle. Just tell us about the D hop factor if you would. Yeah, man, he just he just goes out there and as a ball player that in layman's terms, like he's just a ball player. Um figures it out, gets open and he just I mean

obviously he dictates coverage. So it makes it a lot easier for us when he draws so much attention, just makes us able to have a lot more room to work certain things. So great to have out there. In fact, Wolf, here's here's DeAndre Hopkins right and just talking about you know, the production and how he's not surprised, not surprised at all. Obviously, I put it into work. I had a great team around me during those six weeks to make sure when

I got back that there wasn't any drop off. It's obviously it's hard to go out and and try to assimilate a game or or even a practice. But we did a good job. First game. I felt good. Second game, I felt even better. So hopefully, UM, you know, I'll just keep improving. Um as the year going, Rondelle, how

how much have you learned from DeAndre Hopkins? A ton? Again? UM, I tell you this all the time on the field, off the field, great great resource to have a great guy, whether that be finding someone to cut your grass or walk your dog or whatever case, maybe coverage, plays, whatever, So um, that guy comes equipped with a lot of different skills. So great guy to have on your team.

He's kind of like Larry in that regard. Larry. Back in the day, Cliff Kingsbury liked to say about Larry, he just wins at life like he's got lots of stuff figured out. He's dialed in, isn't he hop is that guy? Isn't he? Yeah? That's a great phrase, A great way to explain that sixth way, Rondel, how's the body doing right now? How are you feeling? I'm good man, I feel great. Um I think our trans staff here does does a great job. And then Cliff obviously um

takes care of us as well. And then everything that I do, um by myself or outside the facility is paid dividends for me this year. So, um, I've been feeling good. You helped Greg Dortch feel better after that muffpunt, didn't you. You made a comment to the media that it happened to you last season, and just recount that if you wouldn't mind and what indeed you did. Maybe he had to say to to Greg Dortch after what was a pretty decisive and instrumental play, game changing playing

that loss in Minnesota. Yeah, um, obviously again, like you just said, I've been there before last year in Green Bay, so I know that feeling. I kind of know. Um, you know what you want to hear there and what you don't want to hear. So for me, it's just like YO, keep being you keep balling, don't try to be anyone ext for you. Whatever you do is enough, man, and you know we're still riding when you still trust you. So and he knows that. Again, he's been in the league.

This is fourth year, so I mean he's been on playing different teams. He saw a lot of different things. So on Deutsch a really savvy player, strong headed guy, so he knows that, you know, we still trust them, still riding with him and got all belief in him. So talk to us a little bit if you don't mind about the offense generally speaking right now, how do you think the offense has performed? Where do you have to get better? Yeah, man, I think we've progressed and

made really big strides. Honestly, Um, I think where we just need to get better is obviously not hurting ourselves. I think the game plan we put in is great. I think we have the talent around us to be really good. And again, we're a few plays away from from being, you know, one of the most explosive offenses in this league. So again, I think it's just the things we do to ourselves. So whether that be penalties or just like little things and uh, it's things that

are fixable. And luckily we've got everyone back and we're continuing to work through those things and we're getting better. So I know, one of the messages and we're on board with Rondel Moore Cardinals receiver was about the urgency that's needed at this moment, not just being three and five, but what you just cited, right, everyone's got to lock in. You got eliminate those missed assignments and alignments. But it's

up to the players, isn't it. Yeah, No, for sure, And again we've we've done a good job with just communication throughout the week and um, I mean previously to this week as well. UM, just just trying to figure it out and realizing like it's it's up to us to figure this thing out. The coaches can't go out there and play for us. They can give us the game plan, but you know it's it's it's us as a as a collective group to go out there and

just do our jobs. If we can, If every person on the field can do their job for one play and continue to do at the whole game, I think we've we've got a pretty good shot. It's a big game against Seattle. We'll talk about the Seahawks, the first place Seahawks when we come back. With Rondale Moore on the big red rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert

snaps to Kyler drops back Fire's left side. It's caught for the first down by more at the forty at the forty five of the fifty, handled the forty five a Minnesota and tackled at the forty three. Murrian shotgun takes the snap, drops back to pass, looks right, throws hit more, fought at thirty, turns right twenty five, twenty four, breaks a tackle to the ten till the five touchdown. There's the explosive play, a huge response by Arizona that

is fantastic right there. I'm about Rondale Moore with its twenty seven yard catch thirty eight yard touchdown at Minnesota. And here's the question I wanted to ask in the last segment. It was we continue with a big red rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert We are satan Ford. Do you realize that you left Patrick Peterson with a handful of fabric that he had the tail end of your under shirt? Do you realize that? Uh? Yeah, no, Um. I think our Instagram page I posted something. I saw

a picture obviously during the game. I mean I didn't know, but I saw a picture of our Instagram page. I posted how angry was Pat p out there Rondelle? I mean he was barking at the Cardinals sideline pregame, during the game, post game, My goodness, Yeah, I mean he's he's a competitor. Um can't fall. The guy goes out there, works his tail off. He's you know, has a ton of respect around this league, and he's been a good player for a long time. So he's just the ultimate competitor.

And obviously a little emotions get involved in everything, and you know he's just trying to win, just like everybody else. So Rondel, what kind of pro are you? Are you a guy that likes to hang around the facility building and stay there late and do all your film work there? Do you like or do you like to go home? Do you like to go home, get away a little separation, watch a lot of tape at home? Which type of pro are you? Somebody likes to hang out in the

facility building or at home? I think I've kind of involved in that aspect. I remember being in college and I would enjoy being at the facility all day and doing all that kind of stuff. Now it's just like I'm a work at work and whatever I need to get done here, I'll get done here and then I'll go home and pretty much do all the rest of my studying and take watching. And I think the biggest thing that has changed from college until now is just

the things that I do outside of work. So obviously, going home to eat, I've got a I mean I hired a chef, and if I have to get a massage, my masseus is coming to my home. And then I have another person who does my body work that includes like faster stretching and things of that sort. I go see my chiropractor. So a day is just really busy for me as far as just maintenance on my body, keeping my mental right. And then I've got two dogs at home as well. So what kind of dogs? I've

got a French bulldog and then exhale American bully. Whoa what about names? Man? My frenchie is a saint, and then my bully is king. It's pretty good though, I mean, year two and you've already instituted all that sort of work away from the facility. But then I look here, your bionus says you earned a degree in business from Purdue and two and a half years. Come on, now that's a type all right. No, I got it done quick, man.

I I basically got to campus in the summer of twenty eighteen and sat down with my advisor and sorry, hey, this is my plan. I want to be gone in three years and I want to get my degree. So we kind of scheduled it out and uh, luckily I was able to finish and every all the classes aligned and I got it done. So Rundown, you're getting ready to play obviously the Seattle Seahawks. Um this Sunday at State Farm Stadium. Give me your thoughts on the Seahawk quarterbacks.

Um Man, I think they present a lot of different talents and things of that sort. Um. They've got some longer guys out there. Um. They got a guy that Nicko who's patient, he's good. I enjoy going against him, A really competitive guy. So I think they do a lot of things well. And obviously they play some zone um and they'll they'll play man here and there, but his own team. So again, they kind of get into that Ben don't break defense and try to keep everything

in front of him. Yeah. DeAndre Hopkins to the media, brought up on his own they're round five rookie, the six four Tariq Woolen from seven yeah, yeah, and he runs a four two six yeah. Former receiver somehow lasted until round five and he's legit on film, isn't he? And now he's a good player. Um does a good job of being patient, using his length and making plays. How would you characterize stec Hawks defense? I mean you mentioned a little bit the fact they play zone a

lot more zone than they do man. But are they high pressure team that they like to come after you at all? They'll do some things. They'll they'll walk some guys down in the box and then not a ton, but they'll bring a little bit Um. But again they stick to you know, zone coverage and again just keep everything in front of them. Yeah, and that's the rage, right guys, This whole zaw zone too high safety. It's not just the Cardinals who are facing everyone gets in

my homes, Josh Allen, doesn't matter. What's the key as an offense, Stay on schedule, Um, keep the ball moving, Try not to get in third and long situations. Obviously, Um, you don't want to have penalties and things of that sort that that move you back that for shoot of run plays that you didn't want to run or things like that. So again, just staying on schedule, UM. And that means trying to stay in short distance down so second and three, third and third and two, third and

four and things of that. Third and manageable or things like that. So I just continuing to move the wall up the field. So when the first meeting a couple of weeks ago, you were targeted ten times, had six receptions for forty nine yards. How did the Seahawks play you the first time? We' wrong again? Zone? That was that? Yeah, yeah, we did get a little jam you a little una. They were most mostly all yeah, three they said a lot of three. I saw a lot of three that

Nickel would carry quarters now played two. So so you know, it was amazing. Your Cliff Kingsbury yesterday and we're on board here with Rondale Moore, Cardinals receiver say that so far this season that Cardinals have trailed ninety one percent of the game time. Who think about that? Who? So in Cliff readily admits it takes you out of your

game plan. It shuts you become one dimensional. If you're chasing the game and you're trailing, how how far would it go as an offense if you could just get that balance, Rondelle, because you weren't able to run the ball against Minnesota, and that changes a lot, doesn't it. Yeah, Um, everything you do in this league is predicated off of

who can run the ball really well and who can't. Um, Obviously you want to be able to run the ball, so they've got to bring more guys in the box, and obviously that's when you get your one on one. Then you get coverages that you know you want to throw the ball in. So UM, I think we've we've been doing a better job of running the ball. UM. So I think for us it's just execution and just

communicating and get it all figure out. I think we've got some really good backs who can who can take it to the house, and now the ability to do a lot of different things. So UM, ton of confidence in those guys and the guys up front. So would you say it is a must that you guys take more shots down the field as well? And if so, White, again, I think it's just a stand on schedule. Um. I think the coaches do do a great job of um drawing up schemes and plays that allow us to thrive

in our different roles. So if a shot presents itself, I'm sure Kyler would take it. But again, it's all kind of just depending on what they give us. You know, they go too high shell and decide to drop aid and things like that. Then obviously like there's not too many shots you could take there. But so it just depends on what the defense gives us. And you know, Kyler do a great job of giving and you'll take every shot they give you down the field, won't you.

Because this offseason started with your receiver's coach, Shawn Jefferson sitting in that chair right there in late February. First we talked about his son winning the Super Bowl. Then we talked about the Cardinals and he talked on his own just about how they needed to target you more downfield. And Wolf gets it on Twitter as the team's color analysts. Right, I mean, how many times are they gonna run Rondale more horizontally? Right? They want to see you downfield as well.

So and we saw that against Minnesota, didn't we. Yeah, And again whatever they draw up, I'm just trying to go out there and execute. And obviously I can do a better job at breaking tackles and um just just being a guy. So whatever they decide to throw at me, I'm just gonna go try to execute. So do you like lining up in the backfield? And if you are going to line up in the backfield, do you want the ball? Would you run the ball? Yeah? No, I

mean again whatever, I think. I come with a lot of different skills that enable me to do a lot of different things. And they want me to run in between the tackles that they want me to run outside zone. Um, if they want me to go play in the slide or they want to play outside whatever, And if they're going to give me the ball, I'll are you good at running the stretch, play the outside zone? Um? I

mean do you like it? Again? I'm with whatever? Every game with me, he'll return punts, which he does, so you know what, absolutely, And look, the urgency is such right now with three straight division games and the Cardinals at three and five. In fact, Kyler was asked just about that sense of urgency right here right now, you know, since urgency has got to be at all the time high. Um, A lot of guys understand that they know what's at stake,

you know, they know where we can take this thing. Um, well we can we can let it, you know, slip away. But everything is right there for us, But I mean, we're focused on this week, so I can't really look too far ahead, but we understand what's you know, what's ahead? What do you think so far the week of practice including rain today, which is interesting, makes sense it's Seattle week. But what do you think? How was a team band this week? Great? I think the communication has been really great.

I think the energy has been really high. We've done a good job of executing, done a good job of studying the film, talking with each other and getting things right, correct in things, and again just being urgent and being intentional about being at work and making sure we're working at work. If there's one thing you guys are going to have to do in order to beat Seattle, what would you say? Stay on schedule? And again, just to

kind of reiterate what that means. It just means, you know, not getting in third and long and limiting penalties and you know, mental errors and making sure our splits are correct and things like like that. So just doing all those sort of little things, and that's why they play that soft shell right everything in front of them. They want the unforced errors right. So how about the hard knocks cameras that are everywhere you're looking forward to the

debut on Wednesday. What are you thinking there? Same thing to me, man, just trying to come to work, do my job. It doesn't bother me. I think they do a good job of kind of standing out the way and getting footage however they can so again doesn't bother me either way. You know, Wolf keeps angling for a lot of camera time. I hope your tea. I hope your teammates aren't doing the same, you know, I mean, my goodness, just act as you are. Just act natural, right, Rondale,

Come on, Yeah, for sure. Rondale, thank you man. We really appreciate it. I appreciate you guys looking forward to this one. This I'm very curious to see what this Cardinal's off fence looks like now that they have a full compliment of weapons going against Seattle and coming off the game. Rondale just heads so we'll see, especially against

that secondary special. Thanks to Rondale. More, we continue with a big red rage was in a by Santan Ford in Gilbert pick third down for the Cardinals, a minute to go here on the third third and five for the Vikings on their thirty shotguns snapped the Cousins straight dropped that in trouble hit. The ball is pumbled, Isaiah Simmons chopped it out and Isaiah Simmons recovers it. Well, what a play. Two plays by Isaiah Simmons. He strips the ball and then he recovers it big time by

the former top ten pick, the X factor. Isaiah Simmons came out of plitz beat his man, got his left palm and knocked a pig away from Cousins, a script sack for Isaiah Simmons. The Cardinals would get a field goal not long after. It would be twenty eight twenty six, and then the faithful fumbling of the football, the muff punt, Cardinals turn it over full Viking score and yes, the game goes down to the last play, but the Cardinals

on the short end. Thirty four twenty six. You heard Rondale Moore, a very special guest here on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Paul Kelvs here Ron Wolfley there and we heard Greg Dortch and what he heard from Rondale Moore, right, what Rondamo shared with him, and that's good stuff that as second year player he was that guy in the Thursday night game against Green Bay a year ago, a critical muff punt that ended up in a turnover, and so he went

over he could relate to it, and he was the guy who tried to pick up Greg Dortch. Yeah, Paully, you know, for me, that really was the story of the game right there. Not only the turnovers, of course, but the line of scrimmage. The line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. In particular, I would say the Minnesota Vikings in that first half really control the line of scrimmage. Poly you go back and you look at it. They rushed the ball twelve times and run

down situation. I'm talking about first and ten second and one to six rundown situation where the defense for the most part kind of has a suspicion that you're going to run the ball. They ran at twelve times and run down for one hundred yards. Polly. Now, the second half, of course, they did a great job of shutting it down. They did. As a matter of fact, the Minnesota Vikings ran it ten times and run down situation in the second half for only twenty seven yards, So great adjustments.

Of course, at the half, but man, it was too late. At that point in time. The Arizona Cardinals could not run the ball, they couldn't control the line of scrimmage on either side, and they turned the ball over way too much. Not totally unlike the Week two game against Minnesota a year ago where Minnesota ran all over the Cardinals until halftime and the mother of all adjustments and then they shut it down in the second half. Good point in the first half this game, eight point four

yards of care area as a team. That Cardinals did better as a rush defense in the second half, but still wolf when you get out rushed overall in the game one seventy three to seventy eight. You're Cliff Kingsbury talk about that after the game tolder yards were almost even. But when the other offense is balanced and you're not, Yeah, it just it tends to shut down what's available on the playsheet. You're Rondell Moore talk about that, and and

Cliff Kingsbury has mentioned that numerous times. And we sighted the stat where the Cardinals have trailed ninety one percent of the play time this year, and all of that combined, it just feels like, you know, you know, and I know Cliff doesn't want to come on and say it, but in those situations you have to be handcuffed as a play caller. Yeah no, yeah, you are, Polly and Boy. That really is the difference I would say this year

as opposed to what we were seeing last year. Would it shock you, Polly if I told you that going into December. I'm talking about at the end of November, going into December Week one of December. Would it shock you to know the Arizona Cardinals were number five and run rate in the National Football League last year? I mean they going into December. They were still number five all season long, in September and October and even well into November, they were like top three in terms of

running the ball. I'm talking about how many times they ran the ball and it wasn't because Kyler Murray was pulling the ball down and running it. He was not doing that. It's a matter of fact, right, So they need to get back to being able to run the ball the way that they were when their offense was really humming in the first ten twelve weeks of the season.

You know, I remember that stat. Now you know why because on his TV show, you brought that up Kingsbury and he made one of those Gallos humor type jokes. He said, what was this comedy? Said, Yeah, we're gonna have to do something about that. We gotta change that. Yeah, he did not like that. He doesn't want to be known as the guy who runs, but he does. We'll do with Paulie. And that's the thing about Cliff that not enough people, I think understand He's not dogmatic. Man.

This is no Chip Kelly situation where it's gonna be the air raid. It's gonna be my way, or it's gonna be the highway. I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna change the game of football or you know what time Just like, No, that is not that is not who he is. He's gonna do what he needs to do to put his team in in the best chance of winning games. Now. I know there's a lot of people right now that are really really angry, that are really upset. But I can tell you the answer is in the

next three games and through the NFC West door. And look, Cardinal's got to figure out a way to run the ball when Kyler Murray is your leading rusher, you know, and he's not having a hundred yard rushing game. Then guess what that is a problem. And yes, you had three backups on that offensive line. I get it. You're on your third center, you're on your third left guard, you have Josh Jones instead of your franchise left tackle DJ Humphrey's And that might be the case. On Sunday,

you're gonna have to figure this out. But otherwise you're gonna end up taking yet another l And like Isaiah Simmons said, so well, he made a couple of big plays, but once again, the entire team lost in Minnesota thirty four to twenty six. Here's Isaiah personally, I just I hate losing. I hate losing more than I like winning. You know. For me, I just feel like there's definitely things that need to be addressed, things that we need to clean up. No need to point fingers at anything.

These are we're competing, we're in the games, but we just gotta take it to another level. Look, they won't point fingers, but but I will. I will. Here we go. Yeah, when the two safeties are the two leading tacklers, that's a problem. Ye When Buddha Baker and Jail and Thompson, when JT is right up there with Buddha and there

you're leading tacklers. When Kirk Cousins is getting loose for a seventeen yard touchdown run, and even his head coach and play caller Kevin O'Connell and NFL Films that released the clip, even he was like, whoa, that's a no compress didn't expect that to happen because too often the Cardinals were busting the edge they didn't have to run support, and then near the goal line they were able to run up the middle. There's a lot to fix on

the defensive side of the ball if you ask me. Yeah, Paul, you know, in the defense, as we all know, has really gotten better over the course of this season. We all know how they started against Kansas City and really I would say the first two quarters of course against the Las Vegas writers as well, But this defense has really surprised over delivered for the most part until the Minnesota Vikings game. In my opinion, totally agree. In fact, you know, Isaiah Simmons, they know they got to get

this right. He was talking to the media this week, just the importance of a division game against the division leading Seattle Seahawks year two games below five hundred. Again, Isaiah Simmons, you know this is definitely the most important game, really just because it's the mixed game, but just understanding that, you know, we still can write our destiny. So you know, I think everybody understands what the importance of this game is and what it can do for us. There you go, Look,

we set it off the top the gauntlet. You have three straight division games. These teams know each other very well. And the last time you played Seattle, guess what you did not score a touchdown on offense. Yes, so and Pouli. They're playing better defensively now than when the Arizona Cardinals met him in week six. Yeah, they have more personnel al woods there, big interior defensive lineman didn't play in that game. You know. Talking to guys in the locker

room today, you know they're gonna come in there. They're gonna put five along that defensive front, which they weren't necessarily doing back in Week six. They're gonna use those three big interior defensive lineman. They're gonna stuff the run on the interior, and then they're gonna play that soft shell zone with some really talented young cornerbacks, including Tarique Woolen. We brought it up with rondel Moore because DeAndre Hopkins

brought them up. When you get a shout out unsolicited from d hop as a fifth round rookie who has four or se options, And if you're trying to remember who that guy was, twenty seven was a guy who picked off the ball at the end against Hollywood Brown when Hollywood Brown went down with a foot and ankle injury. Yeah, he was the guy who had just made Hollywood and Kyler his four straight game with a pick. Yeah, you know, Paul, this is what Seattle's gonna do. They did it, and

it worked the first time they played. But I would expect them to be a little bit more aggressive in terms of third down, especially early on, because they really weren't. They're known as a team that's gonna play a ton of zone. Rondel Moore, of course talking to us about that very thing. They're gonna play an awful lot of zone. They're gonna rush four, they're gonna drop seven, they're gonna

rush five every now and then. I would not be surprised, though, to see them drop a blitz, especially early on, just to try to get inside of Kyler's head, just to try to get inside of the play caller Cliff Kingsbury, just to try to get inside the protection schemes of the Arizona Cardinals and let them know, Oh yeah, you know, you think we're just gonna rush for and drop seven and play his own. No, that's not going to be the case. We're also going to come with a little chicaganery.

Because Wolf, if there's one thing you could have proven offense right now, wouldn't it be third down? Your third down percentage? You are four of eleven against Minnesota. That's been really problematic. And just like Cliff Kingsbury doesn't like to admit that he likes to run the ball, Ron Wolfley doesn't like to admit that he has all the numbers. I mean, Wolf, what is the Cardinals percentage on third down this season? I know you know you know what

I don't know, Polly. I do know their number twenty seven in the league. Okay, I don't know the back number, but I will tell you math and me. It doesn't go together. Well, Paul, you know that it doesn't end well. They are number twenty seven in third down? Think about that Matt that is that's big. They've got to get up into the top half of the league. Hey, Episode forty a the Day Pash podcast featuring ASU men's basketball

coach Bobby Hurley, and is a good one. I heard some of it, I guess by your prefer Pride podcast provider or on Twitter via pashpod. We continue with a big red rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert snapped a Murray short set throws lopside of the end zone, plum handed catch for a touchdown by DeAndre Hopkins. Oh my goodness, he stabbed that out of the air with his left hand, pulled it in prey. Huge cardinal scorn. Fantastic chemistry between Kyler Murray, that DeAndre Hopkins and you

talk about those daggers, those stealing knives. Stabbed the pig with his lopt hand out of the air. That's right, Wolf, You and Pash called it. He never even used the right hand except when he put his finger to his mouth. The crowd in Minnesota, That's that's why he wanted to have one hand free. He's cold, bully, He's cold man. Twelve catches on thirteen targets of Buck fifty nine a touchdown. I know he is at about the one they did

not connect on. It sort of looked like maybe he got his head around late or the passes a little early. I'm not exactly sure, but you know it look and I asked him this week, wolf and it's the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Paul kelvc Run Wolfley in the return of DeAndre Hopkins, who's just been phenomenal in his two appearances and so productive. And it's been a different use of DeAndre Hopkins. You can just watch it and you can see how much more

they're moving him around from different starting spots. The next gen stats verify it, and hop you know, we talked to him about it this week and he said, yeah, he said, you know, that wasn't offseason point of emphasis, and it just gives him a little bit of an advantage of other teams can't lock in on his starting spot because you know they're coming in hell bet on

stopping DeAndre Hopkins at least two games in. They can't. Yeah, PAULA, listen all last year of course, they took DeAndre Hopkins and ninety nine point nine percent of the time, he was going to be lined up to the loft and he was going to be the split, the wide, the number one receiver to the left man. So far, we've seen it all and he's been back in two games and they've moved him the left over to the right.

Of course, he's a number one receiver, meaning he's the widest receiver on either the right side or the left side. He's in the slot on both sides. Paul, they've actually put him in motion as well. I mean, we've seen it all with DeAndre Hopkins, and you know what that feels like an evolution to me. You know, that feels like a next step for me. Keeping him on one side, I think that did a lot to help Kyler Murray

clear it up the read for Kyler Murray. But now they're moving him around, and maybe Kyler is taking that next step as well as to how to read coverage based on where he is, whether he's in motion, whether he's in the slot, whether he's lined up as a number one. Maybe this is the next step here and after that, Paul, I would say, show me how Kyler Murray spreads the ball. Now that they're moving de Hoop around, that's the next step. Yeah, and now can they cash

it in? Can they be better on third die? Can they be better in the red zone? Can they turn some of these drives into touchdowns? And DeAndre Hopkins talking to the media once again, one of the questions is just about the offensive struggles at times and how it's Wayne if it's Wayne on anyone. Now, I don't think

it's Wain on anyone. It's a long season. The division is stilled off of grabs, and so for us, it is thinking about the things that we did right, trying to trying to improve those and things obviously that we didn't do right. Definitely working on nose in practice. But for us, we don't panic. Now they get a Seahawks defense wolf that has been balling basically ever since the Cardinals game in Week six. They have turned it around

big time. They forced fourteen fumbles in eight games. They just held Sequon Barkley to a season low fifty three yards rushing two point seven yards a carry. Hello, remember the Giant Center with a number two rushing offense in the NFL. They hold the Chargers to fifty three yards rushing. In between those two games, the Cardinals and the Giants They've added thirty five year old Bruce Irvin who had forty seven snaps last week. He just missed two sacks.

He's been dynamic. And then the secondary has been revamped. There you go, and Tariq Wolan and company. They have looked really good, absolutely, Polly. And listen, you know what a big fan I am of the quarterback rating. Okay, not the QBR. I'm talking about the passer rating. The quarterback rating in the NFL. More times than nods over the course of an entire season. You look at who's in the top ten in quarterback rating and guess what, it's the usual names, Polly. It is the best quarterbacks

in the league that have a high quarterback rating. That tells me, Paul, there must be something to that metric, right, there's something to that. Well, now, flip that quarterback metric over for a defense. It's called the defensive quarterback rating. Okay, In other words, how do you play against the pass defensively? Well, the Seattle Seahawks, they were high nineties. The first time the Arizona Cardinals played him. They were not rated it

well at all. Now over the last three games they have lowered that to seventy six point zero Paul, seventy six, which is not a good day for a quarterback. For the most part, seventy six point zero. They have brought it down in three games this scoring. Defensively, they were allowing thirty points over thirty points a game when the Cardinals played him the first time in three weeks. Three weeks later, now all of a sudden, they're allowing fifteen points a game over that stretch, Paul. So they are

playing very very well defensively. And what's so maddening about it, what I just want to gouge my eyes out about is the fact that this is the way it's been for the Seattle Seahawks the last three years. I'm talking about twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. In twenty twenty two, they struggled in the first half of the season defensively, and then for whatever reason Pete Carroll, it got fixed in the second half. We've seen that three consecutive years.

I think now, if you want to go ahead and say, hey, Week six was really the start of this renaissance they've experienced defensively, Yeah, it's a great point because remember four, the Cardinals played him in Week six. They were coming off a loss to the Saints, and Pete Carroll's comment was, they ran it down our throat. That was unacceptable because New Orleans had run for two thirty five and it was the fourth straight opponent to rush for one hundred

and forty five yards or more. So they've dialed down the rush defense, and then everything has followed. They've become a really sound defense, and they become opportunistic. And look who even what happened in that Cardinals game at Seattle on a sunny day. The Cardinals started four or five on third down and then went oh for eleven the rest of the game. They were one for five on

fourth down. Remember, they were impelled to go for on four town because they didn't have Matt Prators, so they didn't go for field goal attempts at thirty eight, forty five, and forty one yards. So it was a different game without Prador and the Cardinals were held in check big time over the last three quarters by the Seahawks. Holyeah, I just honestly, I think I want to bring it back to the line of scrimmage. Man, who this game is going to be won or lost on the line

of scrimmage. You gotta be able to run the ball. You gotta be able to protect Kyler Murray. Put him in a balanced offense. It's going to start and end on the line of scrimmage. Billy Price your center, Cody Ford, your left guard, Josh Jones your left tackle. Indeed, that's what happens. Then guess what you know You're gonna have to pull it off with backups on three fists or your offensive lot within ball. Special Thanks Ron Dale Moore. Great to have the young receiver. He had a great game.

Look for more that, maybe even some Robbie Anderson this week. Jim Alma hundred. Thank you, Cody Fincher, Thanks as well for Ron Wolfley kelbyc. This has been the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert Chaw Number one. You've been listening to the Big Red Rage presented by Santanford in Gilda. Are you Santanford State Farm Talk to an agent today at eight hundred State Farm and by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts. Visit Acy Cardinals dot com Slash Podcasts.

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