Big Red Rage - O-Line Excited To Get Back On Field

State Farm Talk to an agent today at eight hundred State Farm and buy Arizona Cardinals podcasts, Visit Acy Cardinals dot Com, Slash podcasts, The Rods rising, ard, temperatureizing, vision, flurring, rage taking over. Here's Paul KELVC. Get the popcorn ready, It's gonna be a show and Ron will flip. It doesn't get any better than that. Hors unleash the far How about it? A football flashback Thanksgiving Day, nineteen twenty nine, Ron wolf Lake about a month remove from the Great

Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. Oh, we had a Cardinals Hall of Famer who had himself a Feast Hall of Famer, Ernie Nevers. Maybe you've seen the name in the Ring of Fame on State Farm Stadium. I have seen it okay, So on Thanksgiving Day nineteen twenty nine, ninety one years ago, he scored forty total points, six touchdowns, and four pats. Don't forget about the bats ball.

It's critical because it remains the NFL's oldest record and the six touchdowns are still tied for the NFL single game record. Think about that. That's getting it done ball. That is production. So in the face of twenty twenty, I just thought we'd stay supremely optimistic. How about that? For an intro to the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert we are Santan Ford, Paul KELVC, mister Ron Wolfley, and Mason Cole going to join us a little bit later. I mean, you know you talk

about a feast, right and what it is? Thanksgiving? All about a giving thanks be putting on your football feedback. Well you got to get an offensive linement on a Thanksgiving addition to the Big Red Rage, do you not? You absolutely do. I cannot wait to talk to Mason Cole and ask him right away, Paulie, what was it like to actually miss games? That's what I want to know, Mason? Are you kidding me? This is a guy that has

played in so many games. Of course, a guy that has been so durable throughout his career for the most part, can't wait to talk to Mason Cole doing you a nice job developing as a center. By the way, a little bit later, we're gonna hear a dessertive choice by Larry Fitzgerald, his go to and what his game plan is on Thanksgiving days, So that's coming up a little bit later. We'll get into Isaiah Simmons real quick. But give me a quick thought here as the Cardinals coming

off the buy. Yes they're six and four, Yes they control their own destiny. They're right there in the thick of the playoff race. But now they're a game behind both the Seahawks and the Rams. They still have two games left with the LA Rams, and they're going to New England on Sunday. And we all know about Bill Belichick, and you know them better than most, is your former head coach. Give me a thought on where you think the Cards are the state of the Cardinals at this moment, Polly.

First of all, they're in a good spot, right, I mean, they're in a good position to make a run here. And this is an old saying in the National Football League. You win games in November to make a run in December. Well, right now, they've got to win games. I look at the New England Patriots and they've got three pretty impressive wins.

Now again, the Miami Dolphins. I don't want to make them out to be world beaters, but I think we got a front row seat to the Miami Dolphins and had a good chance of competing with them and possibly winning a game. And they ended up beating the Arizona Cardinals. Well, you know what, honestly, the Patriots beat them. They beat they beat the Vegas Raiders as well, and they beat Baltimore. Paul, he so you know this is a team that is capable.

Cam Newton has been all over the place. The defense is going to have to play so well in order to get a win on the road, but I think the offense once again carries the greatest way to ball. Paul, you had a chance to actually talk to Bill Belichick an interview, your former head coach this morning one SEVENFM Arizona Sports, and you're reminded such a genius, and I mean think about it, forty six years he has been coaching in the NFL, now ye is an assistant and

as a head coach. It's been nineteen straight winning seasons for Bill Belichick. Last time they had six losses it was two thousand and nine. Think about that in a season, and there's just there's so much beauty in the simplicity of what he does. And by that I mean on defense, they're gonna try and take away what you do best, and when New England's on offense, they're gonna attack what

they view as your major weakness. Now, how he does that can get very complicated and complex, but at its essence, that's really what he does as a head coach. That's his philosophy, isn't it. There's no doubt about it, Paul. He's gonna take away whatever you do well, that's what he's gonna do. And he typically doesn't run down situation and third and obvious past situations as well. But interviewing Bill is not easy. Let me tell you that right now, Paul.

I'm just saying you, you know this, that was a difficult, difficult to interview, especially the first few questions when he came on. He went full coach Billy Jack, which I was a little surprised that I gotta tell you, I was a little taken by and you could tell right away. You're absolutely right that he was in he was in regular season mode. Yes, Now you interview him in June or July, he's probably a totally different person, a little

bit different Paul, no doubt. Game week Yeah, and and and and he's on the air in the city of his opponent. So yes, he was measuring every word and then some. By the way, Ron Wolfley, speaking of head coaches, I don't know if he saw the news late this afternoon news out of Saint Louis that former Cardinals head coach Jim Hannafin has passed away at the age of eighty seven. I know he was your former head coach and saw all the best to the Hannafin family that

news came down. We continue with a big red rage presented by satan Ford and Gilbert. We are satan Ford Snapp the Wilson Cardinals bringing to pressure. It's picked up Wilson the time of the pocket, now in trouble and

sacked about four Cardinals in the backfield. But it's Isaiah Simmons of the rookie that gets the Russell Wilson first to force a fund shotgun snapped to Wilson, straight drop back, steps up in the pocket, takes off running far side at the forty and drilled by Simmons at the forty one. Isaiah Simmons is balling shotgun statt Wilson, quick throw to the left, flat metcalf call at the thirty eight, drop by Isaiah Simmons for a loss at the thirty sevent

yard line. Simmons has played terrific football tonight, the rookie really starting to get comfortable out there. About ten tackles that was a team high in forty five snaps. His first career SAG year the montage there Arizona Cardinals radio and day pass. Two tackles for a loss, a quarterback hit all at Seattle where truly his initial playmaking prowess was seen in this Sunday night game against Seattle when

he had to pick at overtime. He played only five snaps in that game, had the pick, and everything has been different ever since. If you listen to his defensive coordinator, Advanced Joseph, it is a big red rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are satan Ford, Paul kelvc Ron Wolfley Mason Cole Cardinals starting center right around the corner. Give me your thoughts on what you saw in Seattle of Isaiah Simmons Wolf because then I'll share what Jordan

Hicks told the media earlier this week. Yeah. I saw a downhill player Polly for the most part right here. And what I mean by that is a guy that is initiating contact, a guy that was very, very aggressive. Not only is Isaiah Simmons, as you well know Polly very athletic and can run with the best of them all over the field, but also a guy that I need to see come downhill and be physical at the point of attack. And guess what, that's exactly what he was.

I loved his physicality. I love the Jagermeister, if you will, the man hunter that I think he can possibly be. Very much like a Daryl Washington used to be for the Arizona Cardinals. I see Isaiah Simmons filling that role because just because he has a measurables doesn't mean he's gonna play like that. You have to see it, don't you. I mean you have to see a guy that Okay, we know he's fast, but can he play fast, can he navigate the mental side of the game. And it's

been a process, there's no doubt about it. But when George Hicks tells the media that when he was watching film and he's like, okay, all of us, you don't see Isaiah Simmons in the frame, and then he's the guy making the tackle a moment later, you just realize how quickly he can be a difference maker and get to the ball carrier. Yeah, Polly, And what I love is, once again, they've pretty much kept him in a few packages. Of course, they've used him in different ways, but they

haven't really overloaded him at all. They've taken their time with Isaiah Simmons, and I think it's starting to pay off right now because he feels confident, he feels like he knows what it is that he's doing. And we've

talked about this many, many times. This is always going to be a work in progress when you talk about Isaiah Simmons, because you miss as many snaps as he missed in the offseason, and it's going to be quite the transition when you move right into regular season games in the National Football League, that's quite the transition period for a guy that is learning, and every rookie has to prove it. But I think there's also a process and you tell me Wolf, but every rookie has to

prove it to themself. Oh yeah, no doubt Paul that that. I mean, we know he's a Blue Chipper, he's an All American, he's a number eight pick overall, he's got all the measurables. He's a freak. But and he admitted this week that, yeah, you know, that interception went a long way for his own self confidence. Oh yeah, and Vance Joseph said, ever since that interception, he's been different, his body language, his confidence, He's been more outgoing with

with other players. It changed his mindset. In the words of Ants Joseph, here's Isaiah Simmons talking this week and just the wait because there were several games where you could count on two hands how many snaps he got in the entire game, and that's all changed here recently. Yeah, it was really hard. I've always been like the star guy, so it was rough. And you know, I had a lot of outside support from just family and friends and

even my teammates. You know, my teammates would come in like you know, like Zay, don't worry about it, just be patient at times when common when it comes, just take full advantage of it. And I did that my time game. And that was some of the advice from

Hassan Reddick as well. Hassan had shared a couple of weeks ago that you know, he said a number of talks his son was right in that same that same spot, taken in the top half of the first round and expected to play in that linebacker position, and his advice to him was, yes, you gotta wait. It's tough, but it's when you get your chance that you got to make sure you stick, that you keep your job and

you make a difference. And it was still the point. Well, when the media release came out this week, I checked the depth chart. Yeah, I wanted to see if Isaiah Simmons, right, was actually ahead of Divandre Campbell. Now he's not. And we don't know the exact status of Divandra Campbell and the calf injury, but you can't tell me he's not pushing the veteran. You know, we talk about this all the time, Pauli, but don't think for a moment just because Isaiah Simmons is an athletic freak, that he was

beamed down from the mother ship. And that's what we think somehow they're different than you and I when they're not. You're exactly right. Isaiah Simmons had to prove to himself first that he could play. And I don't care what you say. You can say, oh, he's so confident, stopped wolf, knock it off. I'm telling you right now, as a rookie playing in this league, you got to prove it to yourself that you can actually survive and thrive on the field. And I think he's in the process of

doing that. And we've seen him an inside outside linebacker nicol and it's safety. So we'll see about New England Mason Cole starting center next. On the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert get back the throne, flushed out, rolling left, in trouble, slips a tackle, gotta launch it. He does left side into the end zone jump ball and it is regard regard regard, Oh my goodness, a fun Hopkins God, Yeah, oh my god. And the game is over. Click Martin Wal's winning thirty two to thirty.

I know, well, the Hail Murray is so two weeks ago. But come on now, no better intro than the real time, real life reaction of the guy who started that play by snapping the ball and getting that play in motion the play of the NFL season. And don't forget three players touched the football on that play. In reverse order of appearance, there was DeAndre Hopkins, Kyler Murray and our guest on the Big Red Rage Knight presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Mason Cole. You're starting center, Mason. Now

we're doing on the night before Thanksgiving. What's up, guys? How you doing do well and doing great? Mason? Really appreciate you joining us right now. Buddy. How has the year been for you so far? Man, it's been it's been good. Uh. It's up and down. Obviously, wish we could have, you know, won all these games, but it's been good so far. We've got a tough stretch coming up here, these next next six games and it's either all kind of must win for us. So uh, you know,

happy about you know, the first ten games. But there was a guy in the past. Now we're just looking forward. Our goal right now it's just beat New England and we'll go from there was that hail Murray? By the way, was that the most unbridled joy you've had on a football field since so, I don't know, high school or

something like that, man, maybe even before that. It's like plays like that make you make you realize that this game is the same game that we've been playing since we were you know, six, seven, five years old, whatever it might be. Um it brings you back to those moments, just like a little kid just excited. Why is that, Mason? Why do you say that? Why? What? What was it about that play that totally made you realize, you know what, this is the same game I was playing when I

was seven. You know, when you get to this point in the game and playing professionally, it's easy to forget that. It's easy to forget that it is the same game. Whether it be the stress of the season, money, whatever it might be, it's easy to forget that this is still the same game that we've all played since we were growing up. Um. So, so it's little moments like that, I guess, not a little moment, a big moment like that, but a bunch of other little things too that just

bring you back to those times and you realize that. Uh, you know, we're getting paid a bunch of money to play the game that we've been playing since we were five years old. I love that, Mason, Man, that is so cool, and and I get it. There's all the pressures. It's your job, it's a business. There's expectations, there's a head coach, there's a position coach. I mean, there's everything, no doubt, And I would guess you're probably playing your best when you're able to dismiss all that and just

have fun at the game. Is that an accurate presumption? Absolutely? You know. It's it's easy to complicate and easy to put a lot of pressure on yourself. But when you keep things simple, when you play relax, when you play loose, that's that's usual when you play the best. Um, So it's you know, it's easy to not do that, but it's also easy easy to remind yourself like, hey, this is this is so the same game. Just go out there and um do what you've been doing your whole life. Mason,

where have you improved for the most? Do you think? Honestly, I think all over the place. Um, I don't know if I can pick one point or another, but all across the board, you know, and that's big credit to KU's and Daddy in our room. UM. I know I've touched that a little bit, and other guys in the room affect than that. Um, But those those two, UM, I mean there's they're special in the combination of those two and how they push us and how they work us,

how they control that room. UM, I mean it's incredible and we've all everyone in that room has made uh tremendous progress in their technique the way to play the game. Um, since Cou's and Day have gotten in there. It's all about you, Mason Cole, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert You and the offensive line. And look, Wolf and I have been leaning the charge for a good year now that this is not the offensive line that at times is portrayed by the national media some sort of liability.

I mean, it's just completely false. You guys have have doubled down, improved it again this year, spent almost all year number one or number two in the ESPN pass block and run block win and we can see. But but Thursday night at Seattle, you tell me what did you make of the offensive lines performance? And maybe more importantly, what did your position go to Sean Coogler. Think of you guys up front. Yeah, I think the message to our room is, uh, after that game is just we

didn't do our job. Um, as much as we've done it earlier in the year, and we played well last Thursday, we just we just didn't do that. We rusted the ball efficiently. We didn't protect Kyler well enough. UM. That's that's not us, each and every one of us in that room. UM. And the only way to do the only way to fix it is it go out there this week and correct it. Um. One thing Coacharball always told me about that Michigan told the team is that, Um, the only way to get a bad taste out of

your mouth is to go out and uh. And what's up? So um, you know whatever that is. You know we we we got the people in to correct it. UM. And Couse told all of us is that he trust everyone in our room. UM, so he's not worried about it. Um. You know that people have bad games to have bad games, and it was just one for us if we didn't didn't do our job. Yeah. I think for you, for the most part this season, you guys have been fantastic, absolutely fantastic here. And that was probably the worst game

that you guys played against Seattle. What is the best game? Is there one game that stands out that you think the entire offensive line really balled out. I don't know if I could pick one game, um, because you know, each and every game or something in where we didn't do well enough or something we did really well. Um, just looking back, you know, you know Dallas rushing for I don't really back yard. It was over two hundred yards, um, Buffalo we rushed for you know, two hundred and fifteen

yards whatever it was. Um. So we've we've had some really good games, and we had some games. We've been here and there. But there's things good to take from every game and things bad to take every game from every game that we need to correct. Yeah, the Sunday night game against Seattle, Kyler wasn't sacked, he wasn't hit. And then you know, five times under Cliff Kingsbury. And I don't think this is another thing the national media

doesn't realize. Here wasn't a car of rush for two hundred and more yards in a season and a half, and that happened five times in the previous fifteen years of Cardinals football. When you guys are really rolling in the ground game like that, what's happening? How? Why does that happen? When we guys clips two hundred yards rushing? You know, I think I think that has to do a lot with the play call and a lot to

do with us and having confidence in us. You know, if we if we early in the game, we can get the run game going and get efficient runs and also put ourselves in second, medium, third, and short, keep us on our third and lungs. You know, those efficient runs help you all across the board, helps your pass game, helps your play action. So we can do that early and establish run game early, I think it really helps us throughout the whole game, open everything up. And then

we start doing play action. You start taking shots down the field, and that's only can open the run game up even more. And Mason, so talking about starting fast, real quick. Here's what Larry Fitzgerald said earlier today on something that Cliff Kingsbury is cited as a need to get out of the gates and get on the scoreboard

early in the game. I mean, eventually we get it going, you know, every game we play, but It would be amazing if we can do it from the first time we touched the football, go down and you know, put together a great you know, seven to eight play scoring drive just to really set the set the game up and put it in um. You know, put ourselves in the driver's seat early. You know, there's no better time to start than than this week. You know, let's go out and you know, score points in the first quarter

and continue to onslaught. That would be great. I'm guessing you guys are feeling that urgency right now as an offense. Yeah. Absolutely, And I think you know, those those first couple of drives of the game, I think we struggled with all year for for whatever reason. UM. And then kind of like Lady said, we let me start, let me start to get it going. UM. So that's obviously huge focus on us. It started fast, um, especially too with the

tempo of our offense. If we can start fast and not give you to the teams a chance to catch up, it's huge because we can score points. UM. And that might be one of the more frustrating things the season is you know, we're playing really well on offense. We're whatever top five, top ten in offense in the league. But we need an offense. Know that we're not even close to playing as good as as we can. We haven't put a complete game together yet, so we know

that's what we gotta do. We gotta strive to do that. I mean, think about it. The Cardinals right now as an offense, number one in total offense wall of total yards per game four fourteen, number two in rushing yards per game, number one in rushing touchdowns per game, over five yards of carry in the run game. Yet just like Mason, you have the same opinion, you haven't seen that breakout game yet from the Cardinals offense. Haven't. There are so many yards that I think they still have

left on the field. When you look at the drive stalls, the penalties that they've had, right it's amazing. And when you look at the negative plays they've also had. Cliff Kingsbury was talking about that this week. They still lead the league in negative plays and that's an amazing thing when you consider the fact they're the number one off in the National Football League in terms of yards per game as far as fast starts. Remember, he told us this week on his TV show, he said he's not mentioning.

This week, he's going opposite reverse psychology. He's not going to mention it. Maybe they'll get a fast start. And we continue with Mason Cole on the Big Red Rage to announce the Arizona Cardinal selection leaves. Welcome from the University of Southern California guard Deuce Latui. Oh god, Uncle Phil said, the baddest cardinal to represent. Oh wow, there's a difference between knowing you can and thinking you can. Mason Cole, Welcome to the Cardinals. Now that is a

singular introduction to the NFL. Mason's own Douce Latoi, former second round pick and start guarded the Arizona Cardinals. Ron Wolfley, you tell me there's no one quite like Deuce, no doubt about it, Pauline, are you kidding me? The intensity? And he brought it on Gay Day as well, Oh my gosh. Oh yeah. Let's just say, um he went next level in the physicality and uh yeah, he was a throwback and a lot of he was to his era what Conrad Dobler might have been to offensive guards

back in the seventies. Let's just put I don't know if i'd go bad fire. Polly Conrad was pretty nasty. Mason Cole is our guest. That was his Uh that was draft day for Mason realized. Are you aware only two University of Michigan offensive linemen have ever been drafted by the Cardinals Hall of Famer Dan Dierdorf nineteen seventy one and then Mason Cole twenty and eighteen. Have you ever met Deosla Tooey Mason? I have not. No, I'd loved you though, you'd love him, no doubt about it.

That's that's the first thing I thought when when they saw him across the stage during the draft this day, I gotta beat this guy one day. Oh yeah, uh yeah, that's uh. So you look, um, we can go into throwback machine and Wolf thumps upon a time play for Bill Belichick and we cited some of the stats earlier. You know, you're going against the new England team and

the New England defense. That think about the last two weeks, guys, they've gone against Lamar Jackson, They've gone against DeShawn Watson. So what have you seen on film against those dual threat quarterbacks? And what do you think it's going to carry over to Sunday? Mason, you know, I think one thing with with this Stefens and with Belichick is you know they're going to have some plan for us um

whatever it is. Um. I think throughout watching their games throughout the year, Uh, they've just they've had a different plan each each week or whoever they're facing. So whatever whatever plan that might be for us, UM, we gotta be ready for it. So it's it's a little different because you're preparing for multiple things because you don't know exactly how they're gonna play it, so they can play its multiple different ways. Um. And that's that's part of

that defensive thing. That's what they do and that's why they they've been so successful. Well, it really is, mate, And it's so difficult to get some type of gage as to what Bill Belichick and the Patriots are gonna do because he's liable to do anything. Really, I mean, this is a guy that wants to be a chameleon.

He wants to be capable of doing anything. And I cannot tell you how many times in the middle of the first quarter he would bring everybody over, the defense over, bring the offense over, and he'd say, okay, listen, everything we practiced all week long, forget about it. Here's what we're gonna do. And he great it up right. You know, whether he was talking to the defense or the offense, it really didn't matter. He would just say, here's what

we're gonna do. You got to be able to make adjustments on the fly because he's not going to give you just one thing. He's going to give you multiple looks. Is he not? Absolutely? Absolutely. I know it's my first time playing the Patriots, it's my first time really seeing that, and they can do so much within their defense. They can play a whole game many different ways. So well, we just don't know exactly how they're gonna play us,

but so we gotta be ready for everything. You know, it said that he'll attack what he perceives as a weakness. And so when when you think he looks at that film right on Thursday night against Seattle, is there something you guys need to correct first and foremost? When as an offense or either as an offensive line, was there anything that really stood out in that game that you guys have to remedy immediately? Yeah, I think early as

an offensive line, you know, I think we're gonna be tested. Um, I think we were tested with probably some pressures, um, different different looks up front. UM, some games and twists um. And the only way to stop that is to shut down those games and twists and pressures um. Because if you, just like any other team, if you do you show any kind of weakness and pressures or twists early in the game, they're just gonna keep doing it. UM. So I think we'll probably be tested early. I know, I

know I would if I was another defensive coordinator. UM. So we'll be tested for sure. UM. But you know, we know what we did wrong last week and we know what we had to correct. And guys, listen to Cliff Kingsbury, what do you expects Bell Belichick to do defensively? From an offensive perspective? I think you know Bill is going to do a treminish job of kind of taking away what you do. Well. Yeah, I think a lot of the focus is going to be on us just

eliminating those negative plays. If we have the same number of negative plays and penalties as we did last week, we won't have a lot of success up there, and our guys know that. So a lot of the focuses on us improving in those areas and making sure we're playing downhill more. Hey, that's a good start. When it comes to penalties, I'm sure you're aware. Coaches have made it known, Mason. The Arizona Cardinals lead the league in penalties seventy nine guests. Who has the fewest penalties the

New England Patriots with thirty six. How far would that go if you guys are able to resolve that matter? Yeah, I mean, that's that's an issue we've been we've been trying to correct all year. Um and just goes actually goes back to saying, this offense is nowhere near what it can be at its max with or fire all cylinders. So that's that's a huge thing for us, is stopping those negative plays and those penalties, because those right now

are the players that are killing us. They're they're they're stalling out drives and they're they're not giving us a chance. You know, Mason, talk to me about the Patriots defensive line in particular, what do you see on film? What do you say on their front as to whether or not this is a blitzing front, this is a high pressure front, or is this just a physical front? What do they play? What kind of gap, what kind of scheme.

Talk to me about their front, you know, kind of like I said, Uh, either they've been they've been all over the board. Um, and what they do schematically they can they can come out and be solid with five five line across the board. Um, they can go odd, which which is kind of their bread and butter and with you know Bill Belichick has always done. Um, they can play four down, you know, they can play anyway

they want. Yeah. But uh, you know, just as do you expect from a Belichick defense is did these guys play hard? Um? They play within their defense and they know where to be and how you get there. Who do you think is going to be over your mass? Who do you think is going to be over you the majority of the time? Uh? Again, I don't know. I don't know. It could be multiple people. It just depends on how they want to want to play us.

I remember back in the day, right when the Cardinals traded for Chandler, Jones and Chandler talked about how often they would use him inside, They throw him in the A gap. You know, Belichick would dial that sort of stuff out there. I always find that intriguing, no doubt about it. Let me ask you this he's obviously focusing on Kyler Murray. Coach Belichick, and he's been talking a lot about Kyler Murray and the dual threat and the running ability, and what's it like to block for Kyler Murray,

especially when he pulls it and runs it. I mean in the run game, it's uh, it's fun, man, because you'll be blocking a zone player or something and and all of a sudden, the balls thirty yards down, feeling you know, you don't even know what the heck happened. He look down, you look over, you see see Kyler running with it. Um. But in protection, it's huge if he gets us out of a lot of trouble. And

I know we've done a decent job protecting him this year. Um, and we've we've improved there, but a lot of that on him, how he's maneuvered in the pocket. Um this year, it has really helped us and he gotten us out of a lot of trouble. Mason, do you guys lobby for running the ball more? Do you do that? Or I mean, do you go up to coops and say, Coogs, you gotta you gotta go talk to Cliff, we gotta run the ball more? Do you guys do that at all. Yeah, I mean, come on, we play off in the line

and there's no lobbying. Why does it help you? Tell people why that helps you? Coops is the same way though, so there's we don't have to live in the coupe. You know, he wants to run the ball too. It helps you do your job right the it hopes it helps you in your totality when it comes to pass protection. Correct, absolutely, And I think the one thing about this room is we know we run the ball successful in a game, Um,

it's gonna end up well for the team. Yeah. Um So, so we liked that idea, and we like we'd like the idea of having having the game in our hands and be able to determine how well that's offen it's going to be. And hey, between you and the mindset of a j R. Sweezy and a DJ Humphreys, And I know Justin Pugh wants to run the ball. He much rather do that. We've had Kelvin Beecham on the Big Red Rage. I mean, will if you tell me, these are all guys with the mentality they want to

come off the ball and attack. And if you want to set a tone early and get off to that fast start. It's never a bad idea to bring a little physicality to start a game, right, There's no doubt about it, Polly, I honestly wonder if, in fact what Seattle did and playing the Edges, playing Kyler first is going to be something the Patriots are going to try to mimic. And if that is the case, you gotta run the ball, and you gotta run it in a

Northsop way. And once again, five times in Cliff Kingsbury season af they run for more than two hundred yards in a game. We'll see what's in store on Sunday. We'll come back. Let's talk Thanksgiving holiday. He's an offensive lineman, after all, right, this is his holiday. Him and the guys next and the big Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert had Not Household is all about versatility. I'm gonna do to me, My wife is gonna do all the sides. We ain't got two boxes of Jeffy

us today for the dressing. Jeffy Jeffy corn bread means for the dressing, Jim, what is Jeffy Jeffy corn You eat corn bread? Oh yeah, okay, Jeffrey corn bread. I cannot believe you guys don't know what Jeffy is not us Oh god, it's I mean, I grew up on Jeffrey. Where's the Jeffy? You know, we need we need some Jeffy corn bread and we need to get it popping asap. That's an all time moment from the history of the

Big Red Rage. Now twenty years plus. Adrian Wilson, the host of the time, Rex had not the guest offensive linemen and our Jim One Hunter. I know, we was playing the straight manner. It was just the heavy and then it carried over to the show walf and we all got to beat down from Adrian Wilson and Rex had not because we weren't up apparently on the particulars of Jeffy. Yeah, and how you know it's necessary and the Thanksgiving holiday in particular to get it quote popping asap, Yeah,

no doubt about it. Rex was incensed by that by the White baul. So our guest here is an offensive lineman, Mason Coles, starting center. Now, Mason, it says here they list you at six five three zero seven, So you know, come on now, I you know, I don't want to go ahead and typecast, But how many plates can you throw down? You're an offensive lineman after all, in your prime, and I think you're profiling there. I think you're profiling. No,

there's no thinking about it. Thanksgiving's huge, man, that's what that's that's our holiday. That's offensive lineman holidays. We love it? Uh? Did? There will be at least two And I say two plates? I mean they're full plates overflown of food tomorrow for sure. Mason, what's your favorite? What's your favorite Thanksgiving food? Well, so my mom has always made these, uh, these cheesy potatoes with corn flakes. Oh so now so now my wife's

making them. So that's that's always been my favorite sport. That was a little Now did you ask for that? Did you have to sort of adroitly ask that you know? Or did your wife just pick up on it inherently? Was it? You know? It was that kind of an awkward moment when you made the request. How'd that go? Oh? No, No, she knew because she loves them too. So there are those secrets in this household. Is there a name for him? Or they called something Mason? They're just they're just they're

cheese with teatoes. I don't know where she got the recipe, but ever since I remember, she's making them. What about for dessert? Former Big Red Rache host Klais Campbell always look forward to, you know, speaking to mom. Mom had the ice box pie. Remember that Wolf there the chocolate, the peanut butter, and the bananas. We're not gonna ask Wolf about pumpkin pie. We don't need that three hour rant right now. I know nobody needs that. Nobody needs

and Wolf's disdained for squash. But for you, what's the go to dessert? Mason coll We got actually, we got two pies cooking our house right now. We got a Peekam pie cooking and we got Apple pie is cooking. So uh, that's my go to pie. See there you go right there. I mean you can't go wrong Apple and Peak Gone. I'm yeah, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not huge in the pumpkin. It's it's a weird texture thing from me, Na, That's what it is for me.

It's the texture of it all. What it's weird? What are you doing if I'm gonna have If I'm gonna have a pie, it's not gonna be a pump let me tell you. Open up a pumpkin, go ahead and look inside of it and say, man, we're gonna make this dirt out of that. I mean exactly exactly. You know, I know, I know I'd go down in a big way. But PAULI Pilgrim over here, I gotta step up as an American and defend pumpkin pie against you. Come on, now,

what's going on here? Yeah, I'm not saying, you know, I don't like pumpkin pie, but if I'm gonna have a pie, it's not gonna be Okay, Mason, how about this? Do you have any Thanksgiving Day traditions in your family? Oh? No, not really. You know when I when I was little, we would always have a little a little turkey football game with some some close family friends and and stuff

like that. But um, now since we've been out here and with my wife and now baby on the way, we you know, we're getting in that end of that time where we gotta make our own traditions. Now, absolutely, that's so. So you have the apple pie the pecan pie, and they're baking as we speak. I'm guessing you didn't make either pie. And I'll just move on and pose the question which which member of the old line room or maybe your old line coach, could whip up the

best Thanksgiving meal? Because you know, DJ Humphrey's always growing, He's posting photos on Instagram. Justin Pugh does the same. Cougs told us that that he and his wife are foodie. So who do you think is the best chef in that old line room? I would put I would put Cougu's wife up there. I don't know if Cougs is cooking, but I would put Coog the wlafe up there. Out of all the guys, man, I'd have to go beach. Uh. You know he's a country technist, dude, He's he's got it.

He's got it right. Oh my goodness. So are you gonna watch all the games when you get the opportunity? Are you gonna sit there? Are you gonna watch games? What is your schedule gonna be like on thanks? Yeah? What it's gonna What is it gonna be like tomorrow? Yeah? Of course I want to watch the games? What else? You guys? They're Mason. There used to be a lot of guys that I'll tell you right now. All he did his watch film right on our upcoming opponent, watch film,

watch film. The last thing a lot of guys wanted to do was watch a football game. But you're gonna watch it, huh Yeah. But you know, when you're sitting down and having having a piece of pecan pie or apple pie, watching a football game, it's a little different than watching films. So there would be a nice, nice mental break from from the film, from the film for the day. It's the peak and pie that puts you in a good mood right sitting there, and you're saying,

better them than me, that's what you're saying exactly. Here's here's Larry Fitzgerald. I mean he's in his seventeen season, for Pete's sake, and I think he's still watching football fits. What are your plans? Pick up the turkey? You know, I'll probably stop over my brother's house, see his family, and then you know, call grandma and you know, check in with the family, and then get home, you know, have something to eat and you know, watch the games

and fall asleep on the count. You know usually asked about the routine, and then wake up, you know, after that meal, and then do it all over again. Made me another plate, Get some compeach, cobbler, a little ice cream, now that I'm excited about her anything like that, you know, but that's usually what happens. Still, no pumpkin, Larry's going for peach cobbler all the mode, my goodness. Okay. By the way, Buddha, Buddha says. Buddha says he doesn't like turkey.

He opts for ham. Yeah, and mint chocolate. Also, I also agree with that. I think I think turkey's little. There's the reason why turkey do only eat once a year. Wait a minute, waiting, Okay, somebody. I mean Thanksgiving, though, you gotta do the traditional turkey Dad, I mean, I'm gonna go and have him. I'm gonna have him turkey. But it's not like the most That's not what I'm looking forward to. I Thanksgiving. It's not the turkey. I mean the Ham, of course is Christmas. We all know

that the Ham and Christmas. And it's tomorrow, tomorrow, so you're having ham. I mean, if you're gonna get together, you're gonna have any type of holiday, you're having ham. I mean a big old ham. Yeah. Yes, okay, you guys are breaking all the rules. I mean a couple of Philistines around here. What's going on. You gotta get you guys coached up on the traditions of Thanksgiving. You know, I he this needs to going like to the Old Line podcast. The Old Line Room needs a podcast. This

needs to be discussed in depth. That's what I would say. Podcast. You gotta talk to PU for that. He'd beat the podcast guy. You know, he's oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's going right to network with Michael Strahan. That's what he was doing. That's that's my guess. So and let the record reflect, Mason. We didn't bring up Michigan football, although you guys did get past Rutgers, so you know that's

that's you brought up, Jim Harball. We didn't bring up the Wolverines though, in the state of the program right now. So okay, that's well. I got the first win this year. Mason Man, thank you so much for your time. God bless you, and Happy Thanksgiving. Appreciate you guys. Have a happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. Mason, right back at you. We'll come back. We'll wrap up this edition to the Big

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Ford and Gilbert We are santan Ford Special. Thanks Cardinals starting center Mason Cole, Paul Kalvic, Ron Wolfley and and and you heard the reverence for coach Belichick. You correct if I'm wrong, But there's seems like some genuine uncertainty as to what Belichick is gonna game plan against the Cardinals offense. What is the defensive front gonna look like? How aggressive will they be? And to listen to Mason Cole, he said, you know what, that's the norm. He changes

it up week to week depending on them. Yeah, it's just it's fascinating to me. We don't know what he's gonna do. But they the Cardinals need to run the ball that much. I do know, Paul. They need to run the ball and do it in a North South fashion. I know I've been saying this over and over and over again, but it's a must this week in my opinion. Okay,

so here's my question real quick. If Kyler can't run the ball, or they're reluctant to run Kyler because of the shoulder injury, which is what happened, and Cliff Kingsbury confirmed as much to a certain degree on his weekly TV show game Plan. He only had five carries for fifteen yards Kyler Murray. So now what can you get that effective ground game going? Because you like to talk about now it's a three headed monster, Well what if it's just Kenny Drake and Chase Edmonds. Yeah, absolutely, PAULI

this is going to be the thing right here. I think the Patriots are going to go into this game thinking, Okay, Kyler, you can run the ball. You can do that. So we're gonna play the edges just the way the Seattle Seahawks really played those edges, and play Kyler first. And then if in fact he's not running the ball and he's handing the ball off, then I think they might actually change up what it is they're gonna do. Like

the Seahawks, they played Kyler Murray first. Remember Kyler after the game, he said, many they were playing me heavy, right, they were playing me heavy. I'm paraphrasing what he was saying. But they wanted the ball out of Kyler Murray's hand. And I think that's what Bill Belichick is gonna want as well, the ball out of his hands. And then Chase Edmonds said after the game that when the Cardinals showed some run personnel looks, the Seahawks automatically checked in

five defensive linemen. And that was their other response that so, so can the Cardinals run the ball? How often will they run the ball? And then how about a Patriots team that entered that loss against the Texans with more rushing attempts than any team in the league. Yet somehow the Texas NFL worst run defense held the Patriots to just eighty six yards rushing. They came in averaging a

buck sixty one. Yeah, they didn't play well up front right there, if you look at that Tay PAULI they did not block well at the point of attack at all. But to me, again, the Patriots are going to get into twenty one personnel. This is what they do. Two backs, including a fullback Paul. They get into twenty one personnel and that is their number one personnel group and run down situations, and they're gonna run the ball. One hundred and thirty four snaps on first and ten, ninety eight

of them were runs Paul ninety eight. That is what they're gonna do. That's their number one personnel group. They're gonna go ahead and hammer the ball. They're number four in rushing yards per game and number eight and rushing yards per play. They're gonna line up and they're gonna

try to run the ball. And I gotta believe a lot of it is going to do with the fact that Kyler Murray once again will be on the sideline, very much like the Seattle Seahawks who ran at thirty one times for over one hundred and sixty yards five point three yards per carry. And it wasn't like it was Russell Wilson. He only had forty two yards rushing on ten carries. They handed the ball off to running backs. They ran the ball against the Cardinals. That's what the

Patriots are going to try to do offensively. They're using backup Damian Harris. He's averaging more than five yards to carry there without Rex Burkhead the rest of this Yeah, that's gonna hurt. He was carted off of that knee injury. He's done and they're left tackle is a win left that Houston game. He has not practiced this week, so that's a big injury question for the New England Patriots.

But remember what Mason Cole said, But Jim Harbaugh used to say, the only way to get a bad taste out of your mouth to beer an offensive lineman is to go out and whoop someone. So we'll see which offensive line rit deems itself on Sunday in New England. For Mason Cole and Ron Wolfley, Jim Almahndro and Cody Fincher Hupaul KELBC. This has been the Big Red Rage

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