everybody's
level rise in the wood.
Yeah there's no doubt
he's the leader of this franchise, you know we're about
to make them
like I'm sure the highest-paid player is franchise history and
so he understands what comes with that and then the guys
know what he can be at his best and any time
we can get the whole band out there.
Thanks pick up.
I'm praying before training camp
being such a Story, that's kind of been hovering. What will it
mean to eventually get done. How much are you personally
looking for?
Yeah, I mean I I just try to control what I can control, but
I think
Steve myself. Michael, we all understand what he can be and
where we want to take this thing with him as our leader.
And so, I think it'll be great energy for this entire
organization when that's wrapped up.
But Kingsbury doing a great job of applying the brakes to his
mouth as he was saying we're about to make him the highest.
Paid
contact franchise history,
still good. That sounds good
crisis averted. We're about to make him at Sea.
They're both represented by the same guy. That's what makes it
so fascinating, Kliff Kingsbury and Calamari have the same age
and Eric Burkhart. So
Cliff, I assume he is Switzerland in these
negotiations, but he also knows what's going on, because he's
praying. They get this done by the time Camp starts.
I suspect that from time to time, he asks his agent
for any updates about the effort to get a contract for
Kliff Kingsbury starting quarterback so they don't have
to worry about a holdout then off to worry about a hold in
that's your thing. You got to worry about a TJ W situation
where he shows up. He's not find but he's not practicing,
she's not getting ready for the season.
So
he said a lot there.
And the bottom line is, he's in a position to know what's going
on. It sounds like they're working toward Getting
something done.
And I also think
that and this is more of a guess and anything, but I think
it flows from the fact that it was pretty clear that if
somebody wanted to try to make a play for calamari, he was out
there, he was available, not
the Cardinals, were necessarily going to do it, but at least
you can try. As you can try to pry and pray and nobody tried.
I think they got, I think they got the message that
there won't be a land. Rush of teams for Kyler Murray. There
are teams as you've said, that would want nothing to do with
him, just because of his height, he's got to take what
he can get. Get from the team that currently is willing
to extend him. The question is
coming up with a number
that works for both sides. Yeah, that's right. It's got to
make sense but but you know, as we've talked about it, he's got
a lot of power and and
say, in this situation because they've built the team around
him and his skill set and I think again like what you're
saying, the connection with Kliff Kingsbury to me
is why? I guess I don't worry about this situation a whole
lot because Yahweh Cliffs going.
Able to wait. Okay agent saying this my agent who's also Kyler
Murray oh wait team saying this. I think he's gonna be
able to bridge the gap a little bit and
you know kind of nudge things down the road a little bit to
where that's where you know, I have faith that it gets done
and and to what Cliff was saying there to like, you know,
he prays before Camp.
That's the other reason I think he's going to nudge this town.
He doesn't want to be starting training camp, having the deal
with this. This is a big year, you know, it is, they
definitely,
People expect more from the Cardinals this year.
People expect more at the end of the year, let's not have
a meltdown. And so to start the year off by Wade, our
quarterbacks not here or he's holding in like you're saying
and we have to answer these questions all the time
and we play an arguably, the best of vision and football
like that's just not a recipe for Success. So of course,
the he wants that done but I do think this is one where it gets
done. You know.
That, the the last minute last few days before training camp,
we get the news of caelum. New contract and we hear this all
the time, it's a deadline driven business.
And if the deadline is
start a training camp, that's the Practical deadline. Is it
going to show up or not show up? That's when they get it
done. That's when both sides, move to their bottom line
position. That's why we say, deadlines
spur action because this applies in any type of
negotiation, if one side
moves toward its best position
and the other side knows there's still time,
that's just more time for The Other Side to squeeze that
the other side off of its best position.
That's why you need to know.
Where is that moment where we must make a decision and do
both sides agree. Remember the Russell Wilson three years ago.
Yeah when he said
to the Seahawks I want this deal done
by April 1 and both sides regarded that as the deadline
and they got the deal done, they believed him when he said
it.
And,
and who knows, what would have happened if they hadn't done
the deal by April 1, but that's what he told them, and they
believed it and they hated it and they acted on it. So you
can create an artificial deadline. If both sides agree,
this is a real deadline
started training camp.
But but yeah, if they don't get a deal done, then the question
is, will he hold out? Or will he hold in? We've seen the hold
and then maybe
the real deadline is the start of the season but the problem
is you want your quarterback? Yeah. Involve the real red TG W
but he's not quarterback. Right? Exactly, exactly. It's
easier to pull that off. If Out the quarterback,
you know? Again TJ W, doesn't need to practice.
He can go over on the side and do drills and
you know, probably do some one-on-one pass rough stuff and
that's good. Okay. The eliminates, you know, the other
20 guys, in the field, they might hurt him or whatever. So
that's easy
quarterback. You can't do that. You can't do that, let alone.
You need to play a little bit in the preseason and get used
to, you know, the speed of the game that way. But the Reps
during
training camp are really important and then to your point yes.
That's where you want him. That's where you build,
you know, chemistry. That's where you get better with
Marquise Hollywood Brown and Rondell more going into
the second year
and or do you know, Zach ertz who still new to the team and
being a part of it. So that's that to me, is the success. I'm
glad he's there. That's cool to see.
I think it's the right thing for sure,
for him, the team everything there, I don't think there's
tremendous risk for as far as him getting hurt, putting
himself in dangers, way in a mandatory minicamp and
we'll Work goes, but I think this is one where I feel like
it'll get done
by the way. One surprise, for the Cardinals. Veterans Center,
Rodney Hudson, who turns 33 next month. Yeah well I was
absent at the mandatory minicamp. His absence not
excused shocked by that but Kingsbury said that they're
working through some things, we always go straight to
the contract. He,
I can't remember exactly what he's do to make this year,
maybe 10 million and some change. He was cut by
the Raiders. 2021 signed fairly quickly with the Cardinals, but
he wasn't there. We'll see if they can get that
worked out. So that was the
The surprise for the Cardinals. And there have been a few like,
oh, we didn't. We didn't see that coming. That was one that
that we hadn't heard there was any consternation about Rodney
Hudson and his situation with the Cardinals.