Cardinals Cover 2 - Reggie Virgil, a Self-Described ‘Big Energy Guy,’ Eager to Learn
Ep. 1013 - There’s no mistaking the smile. New Cardinals wide receiver Reggie Virgil is a happy man. He’s happy to have been drafted. He’s happy the Cardinals took a chance on him. He’s happy for the opportunity to learn from the number of talented pass catchers on the team. Craig Grialou and Zach Gershman talk about their early impressions and interactions with the fifth-round pick out of Texas Tech plus what role(s) Virgil may play in his first NFL season. Then the guys hear from the man himself. Recently, Virgil joined Paul Calvisi to discuss his background, college career, how fast he really is, and why he may be “a little annoying” around Marvin Harrison Jr. and Michael Wilson.
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Speaker 1: A younger version of Kendrick Bourne, perhaps god Zach Gershman
Speaker 1: with Biberg Gang, and we're talking about Reggie Virgil, the
Speaker 1: Cardinal's newest edition in the wide Receiver room. It's Cardinals
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Speaker 1: So if I say the name Reggie Virgil, what's the
Speaker 1: first thing that pops into your mind? Personality that is
Speaker 1: very accurate? High energy. High energy would be another word.
Speaker 2: I also think dog because of what he said during
Speaker 2: his press conference that after he was drafted he can
Speaker 2: be a dog on special teams. And I remember that
Speaker 2: that was one of the comments that had stood out
Speaker 2: to me, and that's when you could start to see
Speaker 2: his personality show as early as being an Arizona Cardinal.
Speaker 2: For literally like twenty five minutes. So yeah, No, When
Speaker 2: I think of Reggie, I think of personality. I think
Speaker 2: a fan favorite. That's something that we have already seen already.
Speaker 2: And I think also impressionable is kind of a term
Speaker 2: I would use. When you're in a wide receiver room
Speaker 2: with Marvin Harrison Junior, Michael Wilson, and a guy like
Speaker 2: Kendrick Bourne, who was very similar to Reggie Virgil, I
Speaker 2: think that he's somebody that could kind of be a
Speaker 2: sponge and learn a little bit.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you that because I have Kendrick
Speaker 1: Bourne written down here, is he not? And again, we
Speaker 1: don't know what Kendrick Bourne was when he was younger.
Speaker 1: We just know the stories and undrafted player and then
Speaker 1: coming into San Francisco and having the tutelage and having
Speaker 1: his arm or Micha Lafleura's arm around Kendrick when Laflora
Speaker 1: was the position coach. But is Reggie Virgil a younger
Speaker 1: version of Kendrick Bourne. Certainly, same position, same similar build,
Speaker 1: big personality, big energy, and then certainly Virgil a little
Speaker 1: bit more accomplished. He was selected fifth round out of
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Bourne went undrafted, But maybe where they ended
Speaker 1: up as a rookie similar situations, because Reggie Virgil comes
Speaker 1: into a room where all right, you've got Michael Wilson,
Speaker 1: You've got Marvin Harrison Junior, you got Kendrick Bourne. Those
Speaker 1: your top three. Now you've got to fight for snaps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that Kendrick Bourne is going to For
Speaker 2: a guy like Reggie Virgil, Kendrick Bourne can be the
Speaker 2: blueprint a little bit because you get to see how
Speaker 2: he was able to make it happen as an undrafted guy.
Speaker 2: When you when you're drafted, there's not a ton of security,
Speaker 2: but there's more security than being an undrafted guy kind
Speaker 2: of going into it. Which I know that there will
Speaker 2: be a story going out on Azycarls dot com about
Speaker 2: the Cardinals history of keeping undrafted guys within the building.
Speaker 2: But in this case with Reggie Virgil, yeah, he was
Speaker 2: drafted a fifth round guy. That's still a fairly high
Speaker 2: selection and it's somebody that you could hope to still
Speaker 2: make an impact on your fifty three man roster. Now
Speaker 2: what capacity that is still to be determined. We will
Speaker 2: learn a little bit more once we get to training
Speaker 2: camp to see how involved Reggie is within the offense
Speaker 2: within the first string, second string, But yeah, he is
Speaker 2: somebody that can follow the way that Kendrick Bourne kind
Speaker 2: of paid for himself and see if he's able to
Speaker 2: pave together a ten year long career like Kendrick has.
Speaker 1: I'll add another description self aware. And there were a
Speaker 1: couple of instances when he first addressed reporters in person.
Speaker 1: One is his weight. He's listed at one eighty seven,
Speaker 1: and he's well aware of the fact that he needs
Speaker 1: to get bigger, and he's not unlike any other most
Speaker 1: rookies coming out of college trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: it takes to survive in the NFL and having not
Speaker 1: just being bigger, but sustaining all the hits and a
Speaker 1: three game or in this case, four game preseason, seventeen
Speaker 1: game regular season, hopefully postseason. You need to be ready
Speaker 1: for that physically, certainly mentally, but physically and one eighty seven,
Speaker 1: especially as Reggie says, when you're blocking safeties who are
Speaker 1: two fifteen to ten, you're gonna lose a lot of
Speaker 1: those if you're not physical. Certainly, got to have right technique,
Speaker 1: but you gotta be strong enough to sustain and make
Speaker 1: sure you connect with those blocks.
Speaker 2: So there are so many players that that transition to
Speaker 2: defensive backs that might have been offensive guys and then
Speaker 2: once they get to college, they're defensive guys. I think
Speaker 2: about Rabbit Taylor Demerson, for example. It's funny that they're
Speaker 2: both two tech guys. But Rabbit was initially brought in
Speaker 2: to be a running back at Utah State, I believe,
Speaker 2: and then they converted him to being a safety. He
Speaker 2: was a guy that one of the things that went
Speaker 2: from year one to year two for him was his frame.
Speaker 2: He needed to fill out a little bit more, and
Speaker 2: that's part of the transition of going to the NFL.
Speaker 2: You need to fill out a little bit more in
Speaker 2: your frame. Now he was further ahead because he had
Speaker 2: spent a year extra at Texas Tech over Reggie Virgil
Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken, And in Reggie's case, you went
Speaker 2: from being at Miami of Ohio for the first three
Speaker 2: years of your college career and your size of being
Speaker 2: six foot three just automatically towered over a lot of
Speaker 2: different defensive backs that he went against in the MAC level.
Speaker 2: Once you go to Texas Tech, yeah, your size is
Speaker 2: still an advantage for you, but it's not as much
Speaker 2: when it comes to the frame in the NFL, though
Speaker 2: you're going against men. You're not just going against boys
Speaker 2: that are turning into men. You're now going up against adults.
Speaker 2: And that's something that Reggie. I appreciate how selful where
Speaker 2: he was because he broke out into a laugh with it,
Speaker 2: but he also said, like, I know that that's something
Speaker 2: I need to work on it. It's not necessarily something
Speaker 2: that you guys in the media need to tell me.
Speaker 2: That's something that he probably had heard about a ton
Speaker 2: throughout the draft process, maybe to a point where he
Speaker 2: got sick of it. But now it's a matter of
Speaker 2: bulking up and trying to gain some muscle.
Speaker 1: You and I were with Reggie and the rest of
Speaker 1: the rookies when they went to the Arizona Diamondbacks game,
Speaker 1: when Jeremiah loved throughout the ceremonial first pitch, and then
Speaker 1: we went up in the suites and had a chance
Speaker 1: to interact with some of these players. And I'll say this,
Speaker 1: and this conversation kind of spurred a moment when we
Speaker 1: were in the suite and standing next to Reggie six'
Speaker 1: three one eighty seven doesn't sound very, big and he
Speaker 1: might not be one eighty seven even in the. ANYMORE
Speaker 1: i don't know when that, was if that's back from
Speaker 1: college or the, draft because he did look a little bit,
Speaker 1: bigger and in terms of bigger meaning a little bit,
Speaker 1: wider it seemed to be a little bit more meat
Speaker 1: on the, bones for a lack of a better. Phrase
Speaker 1: so maybe that is already begun For Reggie virgil to
Speaker 1: maintain a very RIGOROUS nfl.
Speaker 2: Schedule, well for what it's, worth within the last thirty,
Speaker 2: SECONDS i just got in an updated. Email, UH i
Speaker 2: got an email at the updated weight.
Speaker 1: Changes this is outstanding, Timing, zach your timing is. Impeccable,
Speaker 1: well this is WHERE i hate to.
Speaker 2: Say Reggie virgil's weight has not.
Speaker 1: Changed so he is better than the fact that you tell, me,
Speaker 1: oh he lost weight because he did Rabbit Tator demerson's on,
Speaker 1: here he's Now his new weight that he's cocked in
Speaker 1: net is two. Hundred so it's the guy that once
Speaker 1: again put on some put on some. Weight Now i'm
Speaker 1: not sure how much different it is compared to where
Speaker 1: he was. From gain three pounds from when he was,
Speaker 1: listed but still that but that's what and what kind of?
Speaker 1: Pounds what kind of what kind of weight are you
Speaker 1: adding one hundred?
Speaker 2: Percent SO i Think reggie's.
Speaker 4: Case.
Speaker 2: Sure, here when you're standing next to a lot of these,
Speaker 2: professionals they look. Big they their frame is impressive because
Speaker 2: they don't look like the average human being just walking
Speaker 2: around Uh. Scottsdale but Come sundays on AN nfl football,
Speaker 2: field you need to bulke up a little bit and
Speaker 2: kind of hold your.
Speaker 1: Own we'll see Where reggie is when the team reports
Speaker 1: to training. Camp but how about we get to Know
Speaker 1: reggie just a bit. More, recently he And Paul, calvis
Speaker 1: he chatted it, up, Right.
Speaker 5: So the self scouting report On Reggie, virgil fifth round
Speaker 5: rookie is big. Energy SO i got to match the
Speaker 5: energy You're. Reggie i'm Just i'm a little intimidated right.
Speaker 5: Now so we'll see IF i can match your.
Speaker 1: Energy how we?
Speaker 5: DOING i, mean it's day one essentially as AN nfl.
Speaker 5: Player what's that feel?
Speaker 4: Like i'm Just i'm stealing. Disbelief i'm just walking. Around
Speaker 4: just feels like not. Real So i'll just pinching myself
Speaker 4: here and. There but Although i've been, Blessed i'm just
Speaker 4: blessing to be, here AND i just can't wait to
Speaker 4: see what the future.
Speaker 5: Holds that moment when your name was, called when you were,
Speaker 5: selected tell us about the, emotions the magnitude of that.
Speaker 4: Moment it was crazy because Coach hat called. Me he was,
Speaker 4: like you still got that football that you wouldn't get
Speaker 4: back to me BECAUSE i came on my top thirty
Speaker 4: AND i took a football from him AND i told,
Speaker 4: him if you want it, back you got to draft.
Speaker 4: Me so him And mante they called, me and it
Speaker 4: was really funny her. Conversation and then it was funny
Speaker 4: BECAUSE i was losing connection to The. AIRBNB i was
Speaker 4: that there's no. Connection so we were like on and
Speaker 4: off the, phone and then he was, like, bro like
Speaker 4: just hit me when you get some, connection and he's,
Speaker 4: like we're about to draft you, though and Then i'm like.
Speaker 4: That THEN i was with my mommy and we was
Speaker 4: on the couch and so as they called on and
Speaker 4: everybody went, crazy and it was just.
Speaker 5: Real that's really. Cool that is really, cool especially ESPECIALLY
Speaker 5: i heard you talk on draft night right with the
Speaker 5: media about things were struggle your first couple of years At.
Speaker 5: Miami miami Of ohio in THE mac elaborated on that
Speaker 5: a little Bit.
Speaker 4: YEAH i was just a little kid out. THERE i knew,
Speaker 4: everything thinking THAT i HAD i had it all all
Speaker 4: the way. Right so those first two years a little
Speaker 4: hard because you come from high school being that, guy
Speaker 4: and then you have to come to college and establish
Speaker 4: yourself and understand that what they're trying to do is
Speaker 4: different from yourself and it's ultimately a team sport. Game
Speaker 4: so WHEN i got, THERE i was a little bit
Speaker 4: of arrogant, cocky trying to THINK i knew it. All
Speaker 4: and then Coach, martin he did a great job on developing,
Speaker 4: me help me, understand like it's a common goal we're
Speaker 4: trying to reach and the way we do, this how
Speaker 4: we do this is it Isn't Reggie virgil's, way for
Speaker 4: nobody else's. Way so you either get right or you get.
Speaker 4: Left so so, yeah it was it was really. Hard
Speaker 4: and then learn the. Playbook you, know high school quarterback
Speaker 4: just tell you, nine you just run, straight you throw the,
Speaker 4: ball and then you let your athletic ability take. Over
Speaker 4: but in college everyone's, athletic so it was just having
Speaker 4: to learn those little tiny details to become. Better DID i.
Speaker 5: See you played quarterback till your junior year of high.
Speaker 4: School, yes, SIR i THOUGHT i was gonna be Next Cam.
Speaker 4: Newton sot it work.
Speaker 5: Out does that help you as a receiver in reading?
Speaker 4: Defenses oh, yes, Sir But i'm not gonna lie to.
Speaker 4: You when you're high, school you really aren't reading the.
Speaker 4: Defense you're just Like I'm i'm gonna go to my
Speaker 4: favorite friend or, something and so. No but it helps
Speaker 4: for sure, though because my, brother he played my god,
Speaker 4: brother he played, quarterbacks so it was easy for us
Speaker 4: to make that. Switch and then he would just let
Speaker 4: me know, like, okay like this is WHAT i see
Speaker 4: When i'm throwing, you or this is the type of
Speaker 4: coverages and the shows that they're. In so it was
Speaker 4: easy naturally just to work my technique in the okay
Speaker 4: pre Snap i'm saying in king defense AND i originally
Speaker 4: knew in high school like how to. Defense it was.
Speaker 5: Easy so if they need someone to throw the wide
Speaker 5: receiver option, pass how's your arm these?
Speaker 4: Days tell, Coach i'm, Ready i'm not throwing that, thing
Speaker 4: so why AS i.
Speaker 1: Can that's.
Speaker 5: Good Reggie virgil is our guest fifth round rookie out Of,
Speaker 5: texas Tex. So tell us about the transition from THE
Speaker 5: mac to The big Twelve and how much do you
Speaker 5: think that prepare prepares you for making the transition to THE.
Speaker 5: Nfl you've sort of been there and done, that, right
Speaker 5: taking that next big, stepy.
Speaker 4: Sir So i'm just used to just always working my
Speaker 4: way to the top or working for Anything i've. Earned
Speaker 4: so just on those first two years taught me like
Speaker 4: termination and. Patience so just training and keep. Going although
Speaker 4: you don't get the results that you, want you just keep.
Speaker 4: Going and then oh to, me my junior, YEAR i
Speaker 4: had a great year and then had talk to my head,
Speaker 4: Coach Chuck martin about. Leaving he was, like, man you
Speaker 4: like deserve, it like you being here wasn't really like
Speaker 4: we got lucky with. You and then he let me
Speaker 4: explore and then ended up with coach takes his teching
Speaker 4: new it was. AWESOME i got Coach juice. Too it
Speaker 4: was just. Amazing and then that team we have it
Speaker 4: was a it was a it was a great.
Speaker 1: Team eight guys, drafted, right.
Speaker 5: Sir, Yeah and just.
Speaker 4: Being around other guys who want it and just seeing
Speaker 4: the other guys a part of that team. Too it
Speaker 4: just helps you. Too it just helps you for that next.
Speaker 4: Level so takes tech definitely prepared, me even THOUGH i
Speaker 4: was there for about ten. Months But i've gained so
Speaker 4: much AND i was able to soak up so, much
Speaker 4: so that step from THE mac To big. TWELVE i
Speaker 4: wouldn't say it's anything. Physical it's just more, mental like
Speaker 4: how fast can you? Play how fast can you process?
Speaker 4: Knowledge faster than other? Teams so it's just all mental
Speaker 4: when you do those. Things Some Now i'm in THE.
Speaker 4: NFL i Know i'm a, rookie but just Because i'm a,
Speaker 4: Rookie i'm not gonna let that determine my outcome on
Speaker 4: the THINGS i want to.
Speaker 5: Do speaking of, fast your game speed appears to be
Speaker 5: different than you're combined.
Speaker 4: FORTY i THINK i showed people that although the forty is,
Speaker 4: important not to show you that it shouldn't be as
Speaker 4: big as it. Is it's just it's just it's just
Speaker 4: like line down runs, straight don't you don't do?
Speaker 5: THAT i, mean the all time great example of this
Speaker 5: Is Jerry. Rice Jerry, rice the greatest, ever did not
Speaker 5: run a blazing, forty but during the games he never
Speaker 5: got caught from. BEHIND i THINK i ran.
Speaker 4: It though Now i'll Get i'll get like. FOUR i
Speaker 4: just it was just it was just, tough like being
Speaker 4: in the environment then like trying to get your your steps,
Speaker 4: right and then all the training you've been through you
Speaker 4: trying to remember that. Too so it's like there's just
Speaker 4: a lot of things going. On you, know you do
Speaker 4: everything better when you don't think.
Speaker 5: So Reggie virgil is our, guest so tell us about
Speaker 5: other strengths in your game. THOUGH i, MEAN i see you,
Speaker 5: know quickness after the, catch, separation you, know the ability
Speaker 5: to high point the Football i've seen, right obviously have
Speaker 5: good size as a. RECEIVER i, mean what do you
Speaker 5: hope To what do you think you showed The cardinals
Speaker 5: maybe at The Senior, Bawl and what do you hope
Speaker 5: translates to this next level your?
Speaker 4: Game, so just like you said my, SEPARATION i think
Speaker 4: my ability to getting it out of my breaks for
Speaker 4: how BIG i, am Because tony he likes the bigger,
Speaker 4: receivers and then just being able to move literally and
Speaker 4: like Like i'm a smaller. Guy and just my, RELEASES
Speaker 4: i think they're really good At Senior bowl AND i
Speaker 4: showed people, that LIKE i wasn't probably on their boards
Speaker 4: OR i probably like welled a lot of people because
Speaker 4: even AFTER i talked to, him their like really. Impressed
Speaker 4: so just being able to catch the ball too and
Speaker 4: going up and get, it and then also just working
Speaker 4: on the shorter routes on my intermediate. Game So, Miami,
Speaker 4: OHIO i kind of showed people LIKE i can go,
Speaker 4: deep let THE i was like top five in the
Speaker 4: country for like yards preat. Catch and THEN i get to,
Speaker 4: TECH i show PEOPLE i can run, screens, BUBBLES i can,
Speaker 4: BLOG i can run dig. Slants so just those quick
Speaker 4: game stuff in THE, NFL i think it would translate
Speaker 4: because like How i'm able to move and then like
Speaker 4: in THE, nfl you they're mostly man most of the.
Speaker 4: Time so just being able to win my one on one.
Speaker 5: Matchups it's, interesting you, know you got labeled a late,
Speaker 5: bloomer a senior ball. Riser these were like some of the, monikers,
Speaker 5: Right but THEN i talked to The cardinals personnel, Guys they're, like,
Speaker 5: no we've known all About reggie for a long. Time
Speaker 5: so that's more you media types out, There so what
Speaker 5: are you most curious to Observe when you're in the
Speaker 5: same wide receiver room and you're in the same drills
Speaker 5: with A Marvin harrison junior A Michael, wilson what are
Speaker 5: you most curious to find? Out and are you one
Speaker 5: of those guys you think you're going to be peppering
Speaker 5: them with a lot of? Questions are you eager to?
Speaker 4: KNOW i try to leave them, alone but it gets hard,
Speaker 4: though BECAUSE i like to learn every single LIKE i
Speaker 4: want to know why did you do? This or why
Speaker 4: did you do? That or like, hey Like, marvin why
Speaker 4: did you think this was good to? Do or like
Speaker 4: when do you do? This when are you supposed to do?
Speaker 4: This like when do you change the? Tempos SO i
Speaker 4: am a LITTLE i would be a little. ANNOYING i
Speaker 4: just give them you don't let them know NOW i
Speaker 4: am a little annoying when it comes to stuff BECAUSE
Speaker 4: i just want to be like so good and so like,
Speaker 4: great one of the. Great SO i don't want to
Speaker 4: make them think, like oh my, god this kid's. Annoying
Speaker 4: BUT i just want to be better and then ultimately
Speaker 4: that will helped the team be better. Too So i'll ask.
Speaker 5: THEM i, mean, well that's. Good they're gonna sign you
Speaker 5: rookie duties. Too you're gonna have to run to the
Speaker 5: store and get some snacks of the, room so you,
Speaker 5: know they'll get the revenge a little.
Speaker 1: Bit hopefully.
Speaker 5: Not last question For Reggie, virgil rookie receiver for The.
Speaker 5: Cardinals AM i seeing this correctly that you started playing
Speaker 5: football at age seven by going behind your mom's?
Speaker 4: Back, yeah my. Mom my mom wasn't pretty happy about.
Speaker 4: That my, Dad so my, dad he played, football and
Speaker 4: LIKE i grew up around a bunch of other kids
Speaker 4: that played. Football so, Like i'm, like, bro LIKE i
Speaker 4: have to, Play LIKE i have to. Play hurry. Up
Speaker 4: So i'm telling my. Dad we always hang out together
Speaker 4: and when we talk about, football he's like telling me
Speaker 4: what positions you Think i'll be good. At i'm, Like, dad,
Speaker 4: like CAN i play? Football? Please are you? Sure i'm
Speaker 4: Like i'm like, Yes dad. Positive so he's, like you,
Speaker 4: know your mom not gonna like, that because, like, yeah my.
Speaker 4: Dad he was scared of my mom. Too we all
Speaker 4: scared of, her so so, yeah we were. Scared so
Speaker 4: it was, like you know, What we're just gonna act
Speaker 4: like we're going to the park or something after school
Speaker 4: every day or like doing. Something so we go sign
Speaker 4: up and it's like time it gets around the time
Speaker 4: to play, football and like we're like all, Right like, oh,
Speaker 4: MOM i got my first, game and then he made
Speaker 4: me tell, her which is. Crazy so he made me
Speaker 4: tell her and THEN i told. Her she's like what?
Speaker 4: Basketball i'm like nahall and she's like, no it's not,
Speaker 4: football like like, Yeah so then long story is. Short
Speaker 4: she just she just Like, Okay, well if you're gonna do,
Speaker 4: It i'm gonna be the team. Mom so she was
Speaker 4: my team mom from age of seven all the way
Speaker 4: to like high, School like she still was my team
Speaker 4: on my high. School like anytime something happened to, me
Speaker 4: she was the first one in the feel like IF
Speaker 4: i did, anything, like she's. There so like even she
Speaker 4: tried to run out of college, game, couldn't but she
Speaker 4: would if she. Could but, yeah she's she's been a
Speaker 4: team mom my whole.
Speaker 5: Life oh that's that's a dad, move you, know use
Speaker 5: the kids to break the bad news to the. Mom
Speaker 5: that's you, Know i'm guilty of that. Myself all, Right
Speaker 5: well A, Papka, florida that's your. Hometown and what do
Speaker 5: you fish for in a? Papka you like to? Fish
Speaker 5: what do you fish?
Speaker 4: For? Oh, Like i'm not that good, yet BUT i
Speaker 4: didn't caught a?
Speaker 1: Gar what is?
Speaker 4: That a.
Speaker 1: Car those are like fear.
Speaker 4: Something they're they're like. UGLY i caught a garb before
Speaker 4: it looked, cool like an, alligator so, okay like it's clud,
Speaker 4: though BUT i caught a couple of, catfish you know how?
Speaker 4: Decent all, right.
Speaker 5: And you're a good, bowler so well, yeah when it's
Speaker 5: one hundred and, fifteen here head to the. Bowling there's
Speaker 5: a pro tip for.
Speaker 4: It not me, out.
Speaker 1: Sire all, right that's, good all, Right, reggie thank, you
Speaker 1: and welcome to The. Cardinals thank you fishing and. Bowling
Speaker 1: i'll say, This Reggie virgil just sounds like he'd be
Speaker 1: a fun person to hang out with away from football,
Speaker 1: because as we, discussed big, personality big, energy and someone
Speaker 1: who likes to have. Fun, again our interactions have been,
Speaker 1: limited BUT i do think there's a switch that is
Speaker 1: turned on when it's time to. Work AND i think
Speaker 1: that's the case for a lot of these, players because
Speaker 1: as much as we'd like to, say oh, yeah it's
Speaker 1: twenty four to, seven you do have to find ways to,
Speaker 1: decompress to get away from it a little, bit certainly
Speaker 1: physically and obviously the mental aspect as.
Speaker 2: WELL i would love to see him on the you
Speaker 2: think he's trash talker or you think he's too nice
Speaker 2: on the. Field, well on the field trash, talker.
Speaker 1: That's a great. Question he might just be BECAUSE i
Speaker 1: too friendly to WHERE.
Speaker 2: I can imagine a guy like we talked about the
Speaker 2: comparison Of Kendrick. Bourne i'm not sure If Kendrick bourne talks,
Speaker 2: smack BUT i could see it if he.
Speaker 1: Does but he do it with a smile on his.
Speaker 1: Face so you're, like so you so defensive?
Speaker 4: Back you.
Speaker 1: Don't you're not. Sure are you complimenting me or are
Speaker 1: you insult?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 1: Yeah it might just be a gift that those kind
Speaker 1: of players.
Speaker 2: Have MAYBE i am, WOW i just went on my
Speaker 2: own little excider, world SO i totally. Blank BUT i
Speaker 2: think the competitiveness that you have as a fisherman as a,
Speaker 2: bowler that maybe that can translate in terms of the
Speaker 2: trash talking if he.
Speaker 1: Does got to be patient when you're, fishing you, do
Speaker 1: and you have to be disciplined when you're. Bowling and
Speaker 1: that's two things that are going to matter when you're
Speaker 1: in a wide receiver room with the other guys that
Speaker 1: we had previously talked, about because you have to wait
Speaker 1: for your.
Speaker 2: Opportunity it's. FUNNY i go back to a podcast That
Speaker 2: Xavier weaver did With Travis hunter When Travis hunter was
Speaker 2: getting ready to go into the draft And Zay weaver
Speaker 2: was talking about his rookie, season and he was, saying,
Speaker 2: like when you're not in that starting, unit your reps
Speaker 2: at practice are very. Limited let alone your game. Reps
Speaker 2: your reps at practice or you might only get about
Speaker 2: fifteen reps because you're getting ready to go against an
Speaker 2: opponent and try to put an extra tally in the win.
Speaker 2: Column and he was talking, about, like if you have
Speaker 2: one bad play like that bad play will haunt you
Speaker 2: throughout practices because you only get so. FEW i think
Speaker 2: In Reggie virgil's, case his personality is definitely, there but
Speaker 2: you also can't forget the fact that he is still a.
Speaker 2: Ballplayer and he made the jump from THE mac level
Speaker 2: At miami Of ohio to The big twelve With Texas
Speaker 2: tech and was on A Texas tech offense that was, efficient, dynamic,
Speaker 2: explosive and he was a key reason as to why
Speaker 2: that was the. Case now you're not just the guy
Speaker 2: in the, room you are amongst a bunch of guys
Speaker 2: in the room And reggie's got to figure out away
Speaker 2: that with his limited reps that he's probably going to
Speaker 2: get because we could pencil into three starting wide receivers
Speaker 2: And Kendrick marvin And Mike. Wilson i'm not too sure
Speaker 2: how many reps he's gonna, get but that's what training
Speaker 2: camp in the preseason is gonna be all. About for
Speaker 2: a guy like, him.
Speaker 1: Every rep, counts especially when you're a room with twelve wide,
Speaker 1: Receivers reggie among those. Twelve WHEN i am interested in
Speaker 1: seeing come training camp when the team reports On july twenty,
Speaker 1: second first Practice july twenty. Third we've Heard reggie say
Speaker 1: he plays faster than what he showed at The. Combine
Speaker 1: we heard gentle Manager Monti Austin fort say the same.
Speaker 1: Thing on, Film reggie looks. Fast and then in that
Speaker 1: conversation With Paul reggi mentioned he could run a four
Speaker 1: to three or a four to four forty if he
Speaker 1: ran it right.
Speaker 2: Now and does that what a four to?
Speaker 1: Six it was a four to five or seven forty
Speaker 1: at The. Combine but, again there's running a straight line
Speaker 1: and then there's play. Speed what Does Reggie virgil's play
Speaker 1: speed look like at?
Speaker 2: Training, Yeah monty when he was talking about it after
Speaker 2: The cardinals selected, him he said he joked with The
Speaker 2: CARDINALS gm does this Is reggie saying that he joked
Speaker 2: With manty about running slow so that The cardinals can't
Speaker 2: end up drafting him later. On but When monty spoke with,
Speaker 2: us one of the things he said is when you
Speaker 2: turn on the tape Of Reggie, virgil you're not gonna
Speaker 2: weave with the impression That Reggie virgil is a slow football.
Speaker 2: Player his length at six' three at six, foot three
Speaker 2: the strides he has is a big is a big
Speaker 2: difference compared to a lot of the other wide receivers
Speaker 2: that might be a little, bit shorter that might run
Speaker 2: a little. Bit FASTER and i think that knowing the wide,
Speaker 2: receiver room You have marvin who's also six, Foot Three
Speaker 2: kendrick bourne is six, Vote One MICHAEL wilson i think
Speaker 2: is six. To two when you have, those guys they're
Speaker 2: all very. Similar size whoever the, quarterback is they kind
Speaker 2: of know the frame that they're going to. Be targeting
Speaker 2: when it comes to a, wide receiver they don't need
Speaker 2: to think about. The height it's not like a five
Speaker 2: To Nine greg dortch is running an. Out route it's.
Speaker 2: It's DIFFERENT so i think in that case it could
Speaker 2: be it could be a benefit regardless of what his
Speaker 2: speed and he clocked in at at the at the combine.
Speaker 1: Big targets and that's what every quarterback wants to throw
Speaker 1: to is a. Big target one you got to be
Speaker 1: able to gain separation to catch, the ball and then
Speaker 1: three best, case scenarios what do you do after? The
Speaker 1: Catch But, REGGIE VIRGIL i i, do think is someone
Speaker 1: to pay attention to in that wide. Receiver room you.
Speaker 1: Mentioned it reps are going to, be limited but always
Speaker 1: be ready because unfortunately it's not a matter, of if
Speaker 1: but when. Injuries happen hopefully it doesn't happen and we
Speaker 1: see More Of reggie virgil next season unless he breaks
Speaker 1: out in training camp in the preseason where he forces
Speaker 1: his way onto the, football field which would ultimately Make
Speaker 1: The arizona cardinals a. Better team if if, you can't
Speaker 1: if you can't create, a role you have to find.
Speaker 1: A role and that's something that as a special teamer
Speaker 1: when You're a day, three selection that's how a lot
Speaker 1: of them make their money is and make a name
Speaker 1: for themselves is through special teams and then you work
Speaker 1: your way up to being more part of. The Offense
Speaker 1: if reggie is as much of a dog as he
Speaker 1: says he is on, special teams which is something we
Speaker 1: will all keep an eye on during training camp because
Speaker 1: we also want to see What A mike gobriel special
Speaker 1: team unit. Looks like he's going to be one of
Speaker 1: Those guys i'm looking, At him i'm Looking At, Joey Blunt,
Speaker 1: simme faejoco guys that can be a gunner and seeing
Speaker 1: what they're able to do on. Punt returns, well said
Speaker 1: certainly a lot to look forward to when we all
Speaker 1: Convene At State farm stadium for training camp and just
Speaker 1: see how, these rookies as we've been talking to them
Speaker 1: for much of, this offseason the new faces and what
Speaker 1: newness they might be able to bring here To The.
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