The Dave Pasch Podcast - D.J. Humphries

the next thirty minutes. As you'll hear, DJ touches on how he became one of the best left tackles in the NFL after what looked like an ugly start to his tenure as a pro football player following leaving Florida a year early and becoming a first round draft pick. Humphries will also talk about the struggles at home the last two years for the Arizona Cardinals. I don't know what am I what do we do? What do you? This is like, I don't know. It's hard. I couldn't

tell you. And that's I think that's the hardest part about what's going on right now, is like not having a true solution. Also, what it's like to play in Seattle, the growth of Kyler Murray, the gifts that Humphries has received from Murray and quarterbacks for the Cardinals over the years. We'll also talk about DJ's foundation that he's heavily involved in and what some of his interests are away from football.

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one eight hundred. Next step, Let's have some fun, talk some Cardinals and a lot of other things with Arizona Cardinals star left tackle DJ Humphries. J. Appreciate you doing this. First time you and I've actually had a chance to really sit down and chat like this, and you're one of my favorite stories on the team. When I think back to when you came into the NFL at your age and leaving Florida early to where you are now is one of the pillars of the team coming off

a Pro Bowl three time captain getting the contract. How much, and I know it's in the middle of a football season, but how much do you reflect on how far you've come? I think I think mainly when I talked to young players and young players come to me for like guidance and asking me questions about things. Our three young age rushers that we got, Liketta, Cam and my Ju We've

we've had a very interesting relation. We've we've developed an interesting relationship between the three of us, between those three guys in me over just these past five weeks and just kind of you know, them kind of perceiving how the NFL is going to be and trying to like not step on toes and be careful with how they

rush and stuff like that. And I'm like, yo, bro, I need you rush, bro, because I got to be ready for channeling this week I got frankly, you know, I mean, like I need you to go and like getting them to understand that and watching it kind of bear fruit for them on the other side of it, and watching them, you know, progressively every week get closer and closer to being legit players. And knowing all the

tunes that they got. I think that's like times like that is when they really be like dang, like this is cool, Like I couldn't have did that eight years ago. I didn't have anything for you eight years going now to be able to to kind of shine the light of some guys and help them do some things, and it helped them continue to grow and develop. It's like, that's that's super dope. Sure, when did it click for you?

Do you remember a moment in time or an off season where, for lack of a better term, the light went on and you became the guy that you are now or at least started down the road to becoming the guy you are now. Yeah, I think that that that first off season out of my rookie year. First I have my son like in the beginning of that off season, and that was like a that was like

a different wake up call for him. It was like a not even so much football, that was just like a life like I have to set an example, I have to do things in a certain way, but I think football it kind of I remember that first offseason and coming here and like training and going upstairs and asking good He's like yo, like like what can I like, we're gonta get some drills and like just do some stuff, and like not understanding like you can't do things like

during the off season with coaches and like they can't do drills and stuff like that, and like that when I was like, Yo, I have to figure this out on my own or I would be out of the league. And I think that was when it kind of clicked for me. That was when I got got in touch with the Charles and that was how mean on the Charles. Our relationships started from there, kind of like just trying to take that ownership. It's like, Yo, this this league is not gonna wait for me. Nobody's gonna help me

figure this out. I have to like go do it myself. And that offseason it's kind of what it happened. I kind of been building those same routines I've been going, been training there ever since, you know what I mean that that same offseason mentally trying to get better every year because of that from that off season. So Harold Goodwin, that's good. He who is now with Tampa and swear is more than a human being I met other than t J. Car Listen. I don't know if you've ever

done to the presents of PJ. If you know who PJA is a longtime NBA head coach, So I don't know how he doesn't swear in the air because he swears all the time. And then Charles Bentley, former NFL offensive lineman's training guys. And this new contract that you did, you negotiated that yourself, right, how did that go? Like? First of all, why did you do it yourself? And

then how did the process go? So? First, are you available if I need you for my next contract with ESPN or with the car So first of all, I am available for all Asian inquiries. One percent one percent good. It depends on what we're negotiating. Well, Broadcast agents normally take ten percent. So see, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be that guy to you, you know what I mean.

I will never be that guy. But if we're negotiating a hundred million a deal here, now, I won't need a little you know, we may have to shave a little bit more. I think I'm gonna get that. Then a one or two percent, I'm going to shave a little bit more off the top of you know, we're going that fair, you get one hundred million dollars as

much as you want, you take eighty percent. But but uh, my financial advisor, man by the name with Santana Johnson, very unassuming man if you were to meet him in person, because he's just so laid back and calm. But we developed a relationship over the last eight years and it's I pretty much talked to him every day of my

life pretty much since I've signed with him. We developed like a big brother relationship, and he's kind of just kind of taught me so many things about business and and the ways of life and how you handle things. And he basically he kind of started my will spinning as becoming a businessman. You know, he got me and my first business deals doing real estate, my first business

deals doing trucking. Like he's kind of aided me through all of those things, and it just kind of it's the only thing that's ever excited me aside from football, is kind of taking control of of business and trying to use what I've required over my last seven eight years of football and watching it go in other places and continue to produce fruit for me in that same way. It's something that's like it excites me watching it happen.

It's something that's fun for me. So being able to be able to do the same thing, basically do another deal, the biggest one that I could do in the moment, or you know what I mean, in this timeframe for myself, and it kind of be an isolated environment, you know, I mean, not an environment that's the New York Stock Exchange, but I got worried about vulture, you know what I I mean. It's a it's an isolated environment in this building where

I know that I'm not gonna get taken advantage of. Granted, I know they're going to try to win, but I know I'm not gonna get taken advantage of. So I know that I can go into this fight and really fight and learn and get some keys and get some callous about myself and do things a certain way that this is what I wanted to do. And it just made so much sense for I mean, it was fun the whole way. It was hard as hell, but it was fun though it was the whole off season pretty

much literally the whole off season. Yeah, Like I had an offer already, I think in OTAs Or I didn't have an offer. That's what it was. I didn't have an offering ot so like that whole through that whole time, that time frame, so all leading up until the day my stomach started hurting the account. That's pretty much the hold. That was pretty much the timeline. Were you in significant pain? I mean I was crushed. That's done. It was it was Are you being serious? I am being serious? Man?

As wow, man, I don't know how I made it up. Okay, all right, Um, not everybody can be Larry Fitzgerald. Not everybody can be Kobe Bryant and be a great player for their team forever. You're trending that way of being a cardinal. I know you're still in your twenties, but signing a third contract, you're trending that way. And who knows what's going to happen down the road. But is that something you think about or have thought about being in one place for an entire career? Yeah, that was

That's always been my goal ever in playing football. I always wanted to go to a team and be a main state to that team and retire from that place, and you know, be able to live in the town and go to the grocery store and get the glory love, like you know what I mean. That was always my dream, was being that guy that was the hometown guy, that that that played in one team for a long time and he stayed there and they look you know. I mean that was always when I thought about That was

what football always was to me. That's what you do. You go somewhere. You'd be great there and they love you there forever and you you live your life there. Maybe run for mayor or something like that when you like sixty, you know, like that that was that was like, you know, that's it. I like that mayor d J. Humphreys man only fun things? Um? Was it always football for you? What other sports did you play growing up?

And when did you like your recruiting process? Did you get recruited by other schools for anything other than football? I always wanted to be really good at basketball because my dad was good at basketball. But I sucked, man, I was so bad at basketball like it was. It was it was. And when you say suck, look clarify, like you you couldn't dribble or you didn't know what to do when you got the ball on the post,

because I'm assuming you played on the low block. That was literally the only thing I knew what to do. Anything passed a drop step and going straight up with it, or rebound, setting a good pick or a foule. I was a fish out of water from anywhere from in between those spaces, like anything else. You give me the ball on the elbow, I don't want to. I don't know what to do. I'm getting it out of my hands. Now. Do you watch the NBA or college basketball? Not that much.

Only when my dad's around, so I can like act like I'm cool manly man. But I'm a Netflix guy. You're at and I don't even watch football, But I swear I watched so much film that, like when I go home, it's like I watched Thursday night football because that's when we do the online dinner. But I guess I'm I'm gonna see it at some point. I'm watched the film at some point, like I don't need to watch what about college football? Ever? Watch college football? Do

you still keep in touch with people in Florida? There's been like nine coaching changes. Yeah, left, I don't really keep I don't really keep in touch with Florida. The only time I watched the only time I really watched the Gators. If it's I'm like, I got like a friendly wager with somebody, like I'm like, you know, Tennessee played and I had I had bet I was gonna have to wear a T shirt. But luckily I got out of that, you know, I didn't have to do it.

But like the little stuff like that, that's the only time I already ever watched. But it's it's I don't know, I don't know why. I just I rather just watch cool. I get it. I would much rather writse Ricky Morty didn't watch. I haven't seen it. So oh you haven't seen it? Now, Okay, what do you do at nighttime? What you can't sleep? Do you? Just like, well, I'm working a lot. I'm calling that's you know, That's why

I asked you about it. If you watch because I'm doing like, for example, Wednesday, I'm doing preseason NBA for ESPN Timberwolves, Lakers, and then I'll do a college game on Saturday. They do the Cardinals on Sunday. So, like you though, there's a lot of times, but the last thing I want to do is watch a sporting event exactly because it's working for you. It's work this is your job, So I understand, but there's some people that love it so much that that's all they want to do. Yeah,

I love football, you know, it's crazy. I love football, but like I don't. I don't like it's a lot of times in football, I don't know what's going on. I only watched the left tackle. Like if people ask me something, like you can ask me something and be like, Yo, what's the situation here? What we I don't know about. Just I'm about to block the end. That's that's all I know. Like, I don't namer myself with things in my mind like safety rotations and what coverage they're running

and stuff like that. It doesn't matter. I'm gonna block this dude right here. That's like the best pass rush. I'm gonna block this dude, So I don't even care about what the safety is doing over there. So along those lines, who were the toughest guys you've gone up against this year? Of all times since you got in the league, who were the toughest players you faced? Because you're a lot of times on the island, you're going up against a guy that's the best player on the

defensive line, and sometimes the best player on the defense. Yeah, yeah, I don't want to get some dogs. I'm gonna tell you somebody who's the first time I ever went to a game and like I was just getting worked and it was like I just didn't know what Like I was just overwhelmed. I didn't know what to do. Was

nobody that could save me. But the first time I played Cliff for April at right tackle at home and he was rushing off the edge and I was playing right tackle, that was my second year in the league. I think, oh my goodness, it was like a series there where I didn't even touch him. He was just running straight And I'll say, bro, I don't know what you'll want me to do, but I'm trying so hard, like like it's not like I'm giving bad effort, but like I'm trying my hardest and I just can't get there.

And I think Cliff is one of the few people that's like that. That game. I can remember that game like snap for snap and that was like that was six years ago. I think six seasons ago. He was in Seattle or Detroit. He was in Seattle. This was this was like his last season, that last year he played the year before the year before the last year he played because he got hurt that next year, the year before the last year he played. Bro I was like, Yo,

this is nuts. Like I was like looking forward to like next season, like this is gonna be my measuring stick to tell me how like how better, how much better I've got in the year and he got hurt and so he got hurt. I didn't get a chance to do it, but like that was the cliff. Um I always Me and the Neil Hunter in Minnesota is always a battle. I mean literally, since he's been an lash has been a battle between me and him for as long as we've been going against each other. Um

Burns and Charlotte is really good. He's gonna be like he's good now, but he's he's got a lot of upside and there that he's got to. That D line we played this past weekend was a bunch of freaks to is really good sign obviously. What about the Bosa the Bosa brothers, Yeah, how did I did I even forget? Like, well, sometimes they're hurt, I mean, but they get hurt a lot. I've never played the other one. I've never played Joey. Joey and I think he missed the game. When the

Cardinals played and I was hurt at the child. I was hurt. We went to We went to hurt. Corey kind of played left town for me. But yeah, yeah, Nick, like that's that's probably like the every year. I know, those two games don't get real. So because obviously you become an excellent left tackle and you said you're focused on blocking this guy or if there's a game or whatever, you know what you're doing and who you're blocking. How did you get so good? Meaning? Is it film study?

Is it anticipating based on a previous move that a guy has made what he might be doing on this next play, or is it just you're constantly worried about your technique as opposed to what this guy might do in front of you. I think that's what I had to become because it kind of made me soft in my approach. My thought process was soft. I was worried about things. I'm worried that he's gonna do this, or he's gonna instead of making my mind up, like yo,

it's third down, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna get to spof and throw my hands and I'm like, you know, what I mean, Like I had to I had to put myself, make myself be that person who I thought I was in my mind. I had to just pull it out every play and put it on film. And if you do it one time, now you know that you can do it like you have to do it. This is the standard. You gotta just do it every time you're tired. Who cares? Like this is how you

have to do it? And I think that's just kind of like how I condition myself to think like it doesn't matter. It's like, you gotta go right now. Your foot hurt everything, and I cares. You gotta take this set right now. You know what you gotta do. You know exactly how you gotta do what you have to do it. Let's go on one hood that, you know what I mean. I think that's just that focus on me. It's really when I started making a turn, because it's

I'm thinking about what these guys gonna do. I'm gonna be a mixer forever because it's endless, you know what I mean. So I think that was the that was the turn for sure. It's just me making it about myself being so honing in on my technique. Honing in on my process, honing in on everything that I need to do to be prepared to be able to go out there to play at the level of player that I want to play it, and it's and it's continuous, it's every year is something that I can get better.

And just having that mindset of searching for it. I'm never feeling like, oh, yeah, I'm good, like I like who I just signed another deal, Like I'm good like I'm forever searching for it, Like I got something to fix from this last week. I've been playing really good ball this season, but I still got something to fix from last week that I fixed from the week before that. I think something from the week before this week, you

know what I mean. And just having that continuous Yeah, that was a great game, but I messed up on these three things. I got to make sure that's what I'm focusing on. I got to continue to focus on the stuff that I was thinking about, and I got to add those three to the back because it's everything's got to be. I gotta chase perfection, you know what I mean, whatever we fall it in between, as long as I'm chasing perfection, I like where it's gonna la me.

I love what you're saying. I want to get more into that and what's going on with the team. Let's start with talking about this week going to Seattle. As I mentioned to you, doing college football, I've done games Florida, LSU, Alabama, Penn State, Ohio State where the crowd is phenomenal and one hundred thousand people. I have never been in a louder outdoor stadium than Seattle. Whatever it's called these days, it changes often. I think it's is it looming field?

But anyway, what's it like as a player? Because I'm there is a broadcaster and it's really a loud for me. But what's it like when you're on the middle of the field in that and you guys have had a lot of success despite that noise in Seattle. You know, it's interesting. The middle of the field is like the best place to be. It's not as loud in the middle of the field when you get close to those opposite twenties. Though, oh man, you started speaking signing inguage.

It's a lot of this right here, A lot, Yeah, it's but it's it's I think from playing in Florida and just playing in the SEC, like I get a rush, like like I feel like I thrive and played better like two minute situations, those situas like when it's just like we gotta have this crunch is chaia, we don't know what's going on? Is I don't even It kind of feel like white noise. Honestly, it feels like the TV like when it's I'm I'm not that old, but when I was a kid, the TV steal went off,

like it would just go to static TV. And that's what it sounds like to me sometimes. And that's like, that's like I love it though, because it feels like college football. It feels like you like we're having fun. Like it's just the environment. It's so fun to be it, even being an opposing team, it's a fun environment to be it. Look, I know this is a question you guys have asked. I've been asked at nauseum probably and I've been asked too, and I have no idea what

the answer is. But no home wins in a year, It is there anything you can point to as to why maybe that is is there? Because the environment, Like the other day against Philadelphia, there are a lot of Eagle fans, you know, the game Sunday in Seattle. It's going to be all Seattle fans. So, like you said, you get to a place where you kind of thrive in that environment. Do you think that is impacting things?

Or am I reaching here? Because honestly, I don't know what the answer is, and I've given a thousand interviews

about it and I really don't know. Yeah, I mean, if you appending on which day you ask me, I'm reaching also because I like, I'm My feeling is the same way as like, I don't know, because it's like and it's it's hard, it's even harder like going to games and going to home games and feeling in tune and going to playing well and like not winning and it's hard, Like it's I think that's that's really hard for me to rationalize. Like it's the weirdest thing. I

don't know if it's a competitive thing. It's it's a weird feeling going home playing well and losing, and it's like I don't like what what am I like? What do we do? Like? What do you? Because if I if I go, if I play like, if I play like trash, I'm giving up sex all over places. It's like, yo, I just gotta be better. We're gonna win this game. It's as naive as that is. I just it gives me like some sense of rational now to myself when I'm at home and I'm by myself, it's like, yo,

I just gotta be better and we're gonna win. So going home and then like watch a film like damn, like this is like I don't know, it's Fred And that's so frustrated because everybody is so competitive that we all scratching claude to win, and it's like it's hard. I couldn't tell you. And that's I think that's the hardest part about what's going on right now. It's like not having a true solution, not really even And yeah, and I think the same probably can be said about

the starts. You know why NFL trends don't last long. There's too many good players and too many good teams. Usually teams don't go eight games without winning at home, and they don't go five first quarters without scoring a point,

So at some point it's it's gonna change. Hopefully it's this week, and then in two weeks you get DeAndre Hopkins back, and obviously that's something everybody points to because of how good DeAndre Hopkins is and how things become easier for everybody else when you have a player liked hop on the field. Would you agree with that one

thousand percent? I was talking to him about that day, talking to about how the fact that we're in this position and a season, and how we haven't scored in five first quarters, and how many games we've we've started with over fourteen hole and how many games that we ended the game in the battle and almost wanted in the fight, like and we're doing all that without our number one offensive target for real. So that's like that's something for me. It's like, Yo, we have so much talent.

It's like it's all little things. It's all the attention to detail, the carrying things over from from from drill to to to practice, from practice the game, like all of those little meticulous things. That's like the grand scheme of things. It's simple for us, the talent and all that stuff, Like we have everything in that regard. It's that attention to detail the small things, and that that was mend I was literally just talking about this before

I came down here. It's like I remember being on that NFC championship team, well lost in the ENCYL rookie year and this team has eclipses that team in talent, but that team did all the little things right. That team knew all the little things that that team had, all the small details and nuances and all that stuff.

And that's like that, Like I was basically spa comparing those two to him and seeing that, you know, because we were talking about being on playoff teams and all that stuff like that, and it's just like, that's what it is. I think, in my mind is the small thing. It's just the little attention to detail stuff that you know, we think that doesn't matter in reality when you look back at it on the game field. It's all small stuff.

Another thing that I get asked about a lot is Kyler Murray, and I I feel like Kyler is low hanging fruit for a lot of people, meaning he's become an easy target for people to try to nitpick at. It's clear and he's far from a finished product, but it's clear based on where he was. I mean, I think about where you were as a rookie to where you are now and maybe where you were in year four where he wasn't year one to where he is in your four very different in a lot of ways.

And it's players to say that, it's coaches to say that, it's personal people that say that. So where are some of the areas you've seen Kyler grow from year one to year four and maybe more specifically from last year to this year. I think if you're talking about from last year to this year, I think his level of ownership that he has this year, the way that he wants he wants things done a certain way now, he wants routes run a certain way, he wants certain he

demands certain things from the people that's around him. And it's so fun to see because that's what you want. I want you to want me to do things a certain way because it's gonna put us in the best position to win. And you know that, and you need

to get that message across to me. But because it's that important to you, and like seeing all those things come up from him, it's so impressive to see he's like everything that you want for your young quarterback, all to progress, all the steps that you want, he's literally doing it. My favorite thing about Kyler that not that the media the reason why he's low hanging fruit is because he'll call a spade a spade, and he doesn't mind telling you that the dumb questions are dumb questions,

you know what I mean. And I think it's easy to I feel like that's how it works. You know. If I if I say that your question that you asked me was a dumb question, and then I do something the next day, you're gonna be the first person to write an article about it, you know what I mean. I think that's kind of like that's kind of a bit of what he's dealing with. Also, it's like, I'm hey, listen, if you're gonna come and ask me something dumb, I'm

gonna tell you that it's dumb. And now the backlash is gonna be that and and we're not gonna I'm also gonna adds to the fact that you're a quarter being out a quarterback. That's just what comes with it. Like he's the low hanging that that's the fruit hangs low because it's a big apple, like you know what I mean, And that's and that's just what it is.

That's that's what comes with it. We gotta that's it's always gonna be that if something happens on the old line, They're gonna look at me first because I'm the highest pitying the old line. Hump, how did you allow this to happen? Whether or not that she even says, you don't even know where where anything came from? How to hump play? Then if that's what the old line looks like, you know, I mean, that's just the It's just the

world of what we live in professional sports. And I think him allowing it to not rattle him and handle it the way that he sees fit handle it is fun for me to watch because it doesn't bother him the outside world's feelings about him and all that stuff. It doesn't bother him. Is his response to it what kind of leads to his getting the back last day he gets, but it genuinely does it. It doesn't bother

him at all. I like what you said because, whether we want to admit it or not, we in the media, and I obviously include myself, we all have our favorites, and sometimes we pick our favorites for the wrong reasons, and sometimes we don't like certain guys for the wrong reasons. I'll give you an example, like Damian Lillard was on this podcast a couple of weeks ago, and I love Dame, and Dame and I have had a good working relationship for fifteen years. He's been great to me. He's one

of the great guys in the NBA. I am a big fan of Russell Westbrook as a person, and most guys in the media don't like Russell Westbrook because of how he might come off. But I think when you get to know somebody a little bit more and you see you know, you kind of peel the layers back, You see behind the curtain a little bit, the competitive fire, you know, catching a guy after a game's rough, sometimes you don't get what you would get on a normal Tuesday. Yes, exactly,

that's it is. I learned that from Larry. That's why Larry has never miked up in his career. I learned it from him. They said, you can't put him Michael me at my most emotional state in my life ever that I'm just not. I can't. I'm a different person. It'd be interesting when hard Docs is here for you guys. Yeah, you know what I mean. I keep forgetting that they're here too. Oh my god, so much. I think you're gonna be a star. I think you're headed for starting.

Either I'm gonna be a star, I'm getting canceled. That's those are the two options. You know, I'm going to the B stage. I'm getting canceled one or the two. All Right, a few more and I'll get you out here because you've been really gracious with your time. Um making the Pro Bowl last year first offensive lineman's is twenty fifteen first tackle since Lomas Brown. I don't count it? Why not? Why to count it? Because I didn't go

like I didn't but you got named. Yeah, but you know it's like, yeah, we could, like Billy didn't want to take me to the problem, So can you take me? I guess I'll take you of me? So what's that's? That's just granted my grandmother, everybody, it's amazing. I'm like, you know, it's cool, but like it's gonna feel I'll feel differently when I make it this year when I'm when I'm named. It started like I feel differently about it.

You mentioned your your grandma. You and your wife have a foundation, the Peewee House Foundation, which is named after your grandma. Correct, yeah, different grandmother, Yeah, different grandma, but yeah, yeah, can you tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, So, um, Peewee's my grandma. That's my mom's mom. Elizabeth Ann means she's her name is Peewee. She was a premature baby, and she was so small she her bid. Her bed was the top drawer of her mother's like a nice stand,

so that her nickname was Pewee. She's a little she was the baby. Um, but that's my grandmother. She was tough as nails. Um. They're super stirn with me. My whole life, you know what I mean, kind of grew me to be the gentleman and the man that I am in a sense of how I carried myself and do certain things. It's a cross between her and my dad or the two basically guys that people that moted it. But my wife, a wife. I always talked about starting a foundation in her honor and kind of going back

and giving back to my hometown in South Carolina. And my wife knows that I'm very like if it's not perfect, I'll never do it. And she kind of just took it off for Christmas one year, she she gifted me the LLC and EI E and all that stuff like that. She kind of started it made it all the founders and all that stuff and uh yeah man, we this this this year, we had our second annual um A Fresh Food initiative. We had our second annual Backpack Drive

this year. At the backpack Drive, we added a carnival. We had like a nice little carnival out there are kids who like baby get on like some fair rides and stuff like that. Has some bouncy houses and slides and stuff. UM gave out like I want to say, close to fifteen hundred backpacks. It's awesome something like that, Like something like something like that, like like U two thousand boxes of food like it was, it was, it was, it was, it was. It was super fun like it.

But it's I left Union County. I got it spelled in the eighth grade. Did yeah, yeah, yeah, I was bad. I was. It was a rough kid. But so it's it's it's funny like leaving and coming back and people haven't seen me since then and coming back and they're seeing me doing all this stuff and it's like mind blowing and it's seeing seeing people see me do something good. It felt it feels real good because I know how much how much HAVOC I read in my hometown for a small stint there in my in my young in

my young childhood. But it's it's it's been fun, man, It's it's it's something that's ever evolved. I would love to eventually get to a point where I have a trade school in my hometown, to where I can kind of restart that that wave of these kids that are graduating high school and they know they're not gonna college, being able to at least get into a field or something that they have a true interest in, and being able to really go to work and earn a make

a career out of yourself. And I mean, I'm I'm probably one of the most artists and self aware people when it comes to certain things. And I know, if I wasn't six five, three hundred pounds, I'm not going to the University of Florida, probably going to the unc USC Upstate, which is in Union, South Carolina, do you know what I mean? So like that, I just know,

I know that. So I I want to be able to create a lane for those kids that are that would have been like me if I wasn't as big as I am and then was going to go to college to play football. Um to basically live that lifestyle that you would want to live in a way that you would want to live doing something that you actually want to do. You talked about your son earlier, Dash correcting. Your daughter's name is Nova. How did you come up

with the names? I don't know. I named them both, though I'm two for two on the names I named them. I like them. Yeah, umph Nova, Humphres. Yeah that's Dash Nova, But you don't remember how you came up with, no clue, straight freestyle them off the dome. First name, middle name, and both of them stuck like it was like, that's Jeremiah, Yeah, that's that's cool. Novah and Humphres cool and he just stood out. They thought, yeah, yeah, they just thought it.

Because I have three children. One of our daughters is named Zuzu. Her middle name is Pedals. Now. I don't know if you've seen the movie It's a Wonderful Life. Have you ever seen? It's a great Christmas movie. Watch it anyway. One of the kids in it is first name, Zuzu, middle and we don't know what the middle name was. But the whole thing about the movie is Jimmy Stewart is the main actor. He remembers how good things were when he finds the petals that Zuzu gave him in

his pocket, and so us. But I do remember we were my wife and I were in New York City and we may have had too much wine. We came up with name, but it's not a name. She's twenty one years old. She hadn't changed her name. Yeah, um, yeah, yeah, she's out of the window. She if she wanted to change, it'd have been changed exactly, exactly. Um. Last thing can you name? Because Kyler Murray last year got you guys

golf clubs? First of all, how cool is that? And then can you name all the gifts you've received over the years from your quarterbacks? I can those golf clothes well awesome, and I can name all my gifts. Um. Carson Palmer got us the dart guns one year. That was the year before that, though he got the guys when I was a rook ye, I didn't get this.

He got the guys fly fish and sets. And then the next year when I was playing, he got a dark guns like the ones that you pump with it like you put a bike pump on it and pump it up like I could take down a buffalo a bison. I swear it was a video of Ted new taking a bison down with it instead of my did you use it? I used it one time in my backyard and I shot the target and it went through the target and like hit my wall, like made a loud noise. I just ran in the house. I never used it

again because I was scared out. Yeah, I was scared. Another christ Like called the police. So I actually know that one too. I actually Christmas story. And can't you shoot your eye out with the lead with the lamp in the leg? Yeah? I know? Okay, um what else said? I got? David Johnson got me a green egg one year, a green egg? Green Eggs. Still got it, Still use it like a real egg. What's what is the smoker? The green eggs? Oh my goodness, we gotta get you

in the backyard, dude. What is it? It's like a big smoker, but it's like a It's like a A is a ceramic or is it? It's like a big I don't even know how to explain it. It's a huge smoker, like a green egg, and it's amazing. But I always burned stuff up on it. So I haven't quite figured out how to use aqs of pro at using it though. Okay, Um, Kyler got us pictures one year. That was just no, we got scooters. I don't know what Josh Rosen and Sam Bradford, I don't think they

got us anything. Sam Sam didn't play very long, so maybe maybe he has an excuse. Yes, fair touche touch the wild Hog scooter club was that was That was the first was Kylage first year. Then we got to pick this next year, and then we got the golf clubs. You remember all my gifts? This very good memory? Do you guys still as as an offensive line, go out to dinner all the time and just Kyler still Yeah, everything Kyler goes as you pay? Uh No, we trade

off days that pay. Yeah. He always used to pay on like he likes to pick the days that are like cheap and try to pay. It. Took us the hot cheek one day and pay. He felt so good about it. Was like a four hundredllar chick, like, bro, just come on, we just ate chicken nuggets and you yeah, I got this one, y'all, boy, I got this one, all right, I will hope. So what about the next four. All right, what was the show again on Netflix that you watch? Because I need to find something new to start.

So this is not Netflix, this is all Hulu. It's called Ricky Morty. There's nothing. There's nothing that's about it, Like, there's nothing that's you're not about to learn anything. You're not about to like get any knowledge, no worldly advice or nothing. It's just mindless, mindless TV. Straight detach your

brain from Like that sounds good. The world get you a good laugh, probably like some humor that's like not like if you if you got caught watching it, somebody probably think he's a weirdo, because it's like you're got to figure out how weird I am when you go watch it the first day. I have to watch it's not just so you have to tell them back to you. I don't even know how I liked this show and it's it's amazing. I watched on revernd, like I don't

know what's going on. Well, listen, I really appreciate the time. DJ. You've been great and I'm not surprised you got such a big personality. I do think you're going to be a breakout star on Hard Knocks. But I hope, most importantly that people around the league know how great of a player that you've become, and hopefully the Pro Bowls and the All Pros and hopefully playoff wins are in your future. In our feature, so I appreciate that I'm gonna keep playing ntil they are, so I'm not I'm

just gonna not stop playing until they are. So it's all good. Don't even worry about I'm all right, where do we start? That was as entertaining a guest as we've had on the Day Pash Podcast. Grateful for DJ's time, grateful for his honesty. Like me and seemingly everybody else in the organization, no one has an answer. The Cardinals aren't trying to play poorly at home. They're not trying to put up goose eggs in the first quarter. For

whatever reason, it just hasn't happened. But as I said in the conversation with DJ, trends usually don't last long in the NFL. At some point, the Cardinals are going to explode offensively in the first quarter, and at some point they're gonna start winning again at home. Great stuff from DJ on the growth of Kyler Murray. Also on what it's like to play in Seattle as the Cardinals go to play the Seahawks on the road this weekend.

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