Cardinals Cover 2 – Draft Picks Kaleb Proctor And Karson Sharar Share Their NFL Paths

Ep. 1014 – They were the only defensive players the Cardinals selected in April's NFL Draft, both coming on Day 3 after productive college careers. Defensive lineman Kaleb Proctor was taken in the fourth round, while inside linebacker Karson Sharar was selected in the sixth. Recently, Craig Grialou caught up with Proctor, the first FCS player drafted this year. After that conversation, Craig hands the microphone to Paul Calvisi, who sat down with Sharar to discuss his time at Iowa and what he hopes to accomplish as a rookie. Unfortunately, both players dealt with injuries during the offseason. Proctor's injury is expected to keep him out into the regular season.

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Speaker 1: They were the only two defensive players the Cardinals drafted

Speaker 1: back in April. They are defensive lineman Caleb Proctor and

Speaker 1: inside linebacker Carson Shire. Got them both with me and

Speaker 1: Paul calve Seyberg Gang, we hear from the rookies their

Speaker 1: first impressions of the NFL game and how they may

Speaker 1: fit in. It's Cardinals Cover two, and it starts now.

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Speaker 1: Right at the five, hit the end zone for the

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Speaker 1: So it is always good to spotlight the rookies. Today

Speaker 1: we spotlight two defensive lineman Caleb Proctor out of Southeastern

Speaker 1: Louisiana and inside linebacker Carson Shire out of Iowa. At first,

Speaker 1: Caleb Proctor the fourth round pick, one hundred and fourth

Speaker 1: overall selection. Now, this conversation happened before we heard the

Speaker 1: news from head coach Mike Laflor, who announced during mandatory

Speaker 1: mini camp that Proctor suffered an injury, a knee injury,

Speaker 1: tore his meniscus and will miss some time, maybe even

Speaker 1: miss the entire season, which is really unfortunate for Caleb.

Speaker 1: But again this conversation happened before that news became official.

Speaker 1: And this also we did see Caleb on the field

Speaker 1: during rookie Mini caamp and some OTAs as well, So

Speaker 1: there has been appearances from Caleb Proctor and again always

Speaker 1: good to catch up with these players, but get to

Speaker 1: know them a little bit more as people. Here is

Speaker 1: the Southland Conference Player of the year, so I've got

Speaker 1: to know growing up with four brothers, three sisters, what

Speaker 1: was that Like some.

Speaker 3: Of my siblings, they were older than I was. So

Speaker 3: my closest age brother I got to go to. I

Speaker 3: live in the same house with him when he was

Speaker 3: maybe like a senior in high school. But like so

Speaker 3: far like after that, they're all much older with lives

Speaker 3: of their own. But like it's nice to have like

Speaker 3: role models to see them go throughout life, how they

Speaker 3: approach things, you know, and when a curveball is thrown

Speaker 3: at them, how they handle it.

Speaker 1: What's the biggest lesson then that you've learned watching them

Speaker 1: from your vantage point.

Speaker 3: Uh, Like I said, life's gonna throw your curveball. You

Speaker 3: know you gotta be ready for it. It's you know,

Speaker 3: you got to be ready to handle it. You know,

Speaker 3: handle it and be ready for anything that comes with

Speaker 3: you at life, you know, and how they handle things

Speaker 3: and how they approach their day to day lives and

Speaker 3: when there's a curveball thrown, you know what they do

Speaker 3: to what steps they take, you know, to make themselves

Speaker 3: you know, come out as a better person from that lesson.

Speaker 1: I read Baseball is or was your favorite sport?

Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, big baseball fan. Oh yeah, Like I

Speaker 3: love baseball. I played baseball. So we had like a

Speaker 3: Dixie youth in my hometown. So I played. It's when

Speaker 3: you can set the ball up on a tee and

Speaker 3: hit it and run. I played like so long man,

Speaker 3: like basically my whole life.

Speaker 1: So when did football enter the picture or you realize, hey,

Speaker 1: football is something that I might be able to do

Speaker 1: as a job.

Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's a job that came you know, long after.

Speaker 3: But we had a Pop Warner League like ten minutes

Speaker 3: from my hometown. My mom drove this minivan and she

Speaker 3: signed me up one day, and then she signed up

Speaker 3: multiple people, like into my neighborhood and she would put

Speaker 3: us all in her minivan and take us to practices,

Speaker 3: and it just stuck.

Speaker 4: You know.

Speaker 3: I played from all six until maybe ten years old,

Speaker 3: and Pop Warner started middle school, and then it just

Speaker 3: carried on.

Speaker 1: More natural playing football than baseball.

Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, definitely. I was a lot bigger than most

Speaker 3: people at the time, and then I got to high

Speaker 3: school and I was smaller than everybody. Like I got

Speaker 3: to my freshman year of high school, I probably was

Speaker 3: maybe like five nine and five eight, you know, very

Speaker 3: small kid. Yeah, it was. It was a dramatic growth spurt.

Speaker 3: But you know, up until like my junior year of

Speaker 3: high school, like collegiate level really wasn't even a thought,

Speaker 3: you know.

Speaker 1: So yeah, speaking of college, I want to get this correct.

Speaker 1: Your college head coach Frank Celfo described you as a

Speaker 1: special leader and human. Right, that is high praise. We'll

Speaker 1: get to you as a football player, but you as

Speaker 1: a person. What what makes you a special leader and human?

Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, you know, that's shout out

Speaker 3: to coach Soulfo. You know, he means a lot to me.

Speaker 3: And then you know this process and this journey that

Speaker 3: football has brought me. But I feel like, you know,

Speaker 3: just the way that I showed up on a day

Speaker 3: to day basis. I'm not a very vocal leader. You know,

Speaker 3: I led by example showing up doing the right things.

Speaker 3: You know, being on time, you know, not just being

Speaker 3: on time with a clock, but you know, being on

Speaker 3: time and when I'm where I'm at, being where my

Speaker 3: feet are, you know, being ready to go, like you're

Speaker 3: in a meeting, you got your hotel, you got your

Speaker 3: pen out, You're ready to go. When you're on the

Speaker 3: field and it's special teams, like you know what to

Speaker 3: do and you got your job, you know. So just

Speaker 3: doing those things, man, and just how I carry myself

Speaker 3: throughout that building, like I knew everybody, you know, that's

Speaker 3: my goal here, so everybody get a build a relationship

Speaker 3: with them. And yeah, that was a big thing back

Speaker 3: at Southeastern or everybody in the building.

Speaker 1: Now as far as Caleb Procter the player the south

Speaker 1: Land Conference Player of the Year, you're smiling here because

Speaker 1: you are the first defensive player to earn that recognition.

Speaker 1: From Southeastern Louisiana. What was that final season like for

Speaker 1: you in college?

Speaker 3: Man, it was great, Like it was you know, so

Speaker 3: I had a chance to leave obviously my junior year.

Speaker 3: So coming back it was like, all right, you know,

Speaker 3: if all these things are being thrown at you, all

Speaker 3: this money's been thrown at you, obviously like, hey, there's

Speaker 3: a chance you could play at the next level. So

Speaker 3: in my mind, it was like, I want to deal

Speaker 3: with the guys that I came in with, but ultimately,

Speaker 3: like I need to prove it to myself that I

Speaker 3: can do these things. So it was showing up on

Speaker 3: a day to day basis perfecting my craft, you know.

Speaker 3: And I credit everything that I did that season to

Speaker 3: the guys that I was playing beside, you know, like

Speaker 3: we played for each other. Everything that we did was

Speaker 3: you know, it was it was coming out of love

Speaker 3: and heart for the guy next to you, because I

Speaker 3: knew how heart he was going and he knew how

Speaker 3: hard I was going. So that season meant it meant

Speaker 3: the world to me.

Speaker 1: And because of that season, you were the first FCS

Speaker 1: player to hear their name called during the draft. Big

Speaker 1: deal not a big deal?

Speaker 3: Uh, it really wasn't a big deal. Like I didn't

Speaker 3: even really know, you know, I was just waiting on

Speaker 3: my name to be called. But it was an honor

Speaker 3: to be called and represent my school, like represents Southeastern

Speaker 3: the love that they've shown me before it happened and

Speaker 3: even after, man and it means a lot. You know,

Speaker 3: that place forever holds a you know, a special place

Speaker 3: in my heart.

Speaker 1: A lot of people point to your performance against LSU

Speaker 1: two sacks, three tackles for loss. Is that the game

Speaker 1: you think maybe you started showing up on the radar

Speaker 1: of NFL teams.

Speaker 3: I guess you could say that. But like like like

Speaker 3: going back to the like me coming back aspect of it, like,

Speaker 3: you know, gonna finish out my senior year obviously, you know,

Speaker 3: you take a look at the schedule, like, hey, you

Speaker 3: got two games you got love Tech in your LSU.

Speaker 3: Those two games you need to be on your best.

Speaker 3: You know, you need to bring everything you got to

Speaker 3: the table, because it's not like I'm one of these

Speaker 3: SEC schools who see that type of talent on a

Speaker 3: weekly basis, you know, so definitely that game going in

Speaker 3: to me was like, all right, you need to prove

Speaker 3: it to yourself that you can play with the best

Speaker 3: of the best. So that was my mindset going in

Speaker 3: and after that game, I came out more confident than ever,

Speaker 3: you know, And so I would say, like, yeah, that

Speaker 3: definitely puts some people on notice.

Speaker 1: Did that confidence carry over then at the East West

Speaker 1: Shrine game and that entire week because you were named

Speaker 1: to the West All Practice team as well.

Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'll be honest, like I was nervous, man,

Speaker 3: I was so much to anxiety going into that game, because,

Speaker 3: like I said, you get there and you see Texas

Speaker 3: A and m Alabama, all these big name schools who

Speaker 3: see good talent or you know, like sec talent on

Speaker 3: a weekly basis. And so I remember, I'll tell you

Speaker 3: a quick story. We were we were doing one on

Speaker 3: we were in Indian we were about to do one

Speaker 3: on ones, and I'm nervous, man. I'm like, jeez, I

Speaker 3: don't know what's gonna happen, Like, I don't know how

Speaker 3: this is gonna go. But you know, I'm trusting the process.

Speaker 3: I'm trusting everything I've done up until that point. And

Speaker 3: so we go over to one on one. So I'm like,

Speaker 3: you know, screw it, I'm gonna go first, and I

Speaker 3: go first, and I get up and I throw my move,

Speaker 3: you know, the move that I've thrown my whole life,

Speaker 3: my entire FCS career, and it works. And you know,

Speaker 3: from that moment for it, I you know, I told

Speaker 3: myself like, hey, you can do this. But like I

Speaker 3: you know, I remind myself, like you are just a man,

Speaker 3: like it's gonna take more than you know, just it's

Speaker 3: gonna take more than more, you know. But that moment

Speaker 3: right there, it definitely just through my confidence, through the rust, like, hey,

Speaker 3: you can do this. You can ball with these guys.

Speaker 1: The one thing that has come up about you is

Speaker 1: your size six ninety one, maybe a bit undersize for

Speaker 1: your position. So what you may lack in size, you

Speaker 1: make up for and what.

Speaker 3: Uh you know, just character knowledge and the ball understanding,

Speaker 3: Like hey, understanding my weaknesses. You know, I'm not somebody

Speaker 3: I understand, like, hey, I might be a little bit

Speaker 3: behind the eight ball because I am a little smaller,

Speaker 3: but I understand that. I understand like, hey, you got

Speaker 3: to play with great technique, great hand placement, and great leverage.

Speaker 3: You're already smaller, you know, So just understanding the details

Speaker 3: of the game in my position and you know what

Speaker 3: my weakness are.

Speaker 1: Yeah, details matter. By the way. For as much talk

Speaker 1: about Caleb Proctor and his size, he's six' two two ninety,

Speaker 1: one by the, way really interesting to hear him say

Speaker 1: that as a freshman in high school he was five

Speaker 1: eight five nine and, then in his, words a dramatic growth.

Speaker 1: Spurt but just keep this in my bird, Gang Aaron

Speaker 1: donald six' one two. Eighty so you can be undersize

Speaker 1: and still be. Productive And i'm not Saying Aaron donald

Speaker 1: Or i'm not Saying caleb is the Next Aaron, donald

Speaker 1: but it's not it's not un it's not unlikely that

Speaker 1: we see someone like this as far as his, size

Speaker 1: having an impact or having a major role on all

Speaker 1: that defensive front for The, cardinals because as you look

Speaker 1: at that defensive, Line Walter, Nolan Darius, ROBINSON. Lj, Collier Dante, STILLS.

Speaker 1: Pj mustifer all back and then you bring in A

Speaker 1: Roy lopez and An Andrew, Billings Jana williams as, well

Speaker 1: those final three free. Agents SO i do think there

Speaker 1: was going to be a role For caleb this, season

Speaker 1: and who, knows maybe there still might. Be it just

Speaker 1: was gonna be a little bit later then he or

Speaker 1: The cardinals would have. Liked, still you gotta like the

Speaker 1: size at six two two ninety one because of the

Speaker 1: skill set and the athleticism of A Caleb proctor who

Speaker 1: could have Left Southeastern louisiana and there was money to

Speaker 1: be made to go to a bigger, school but he

Speaker 1: chose to stay with his, friends stay with his, teammates

Speaker 1: AND i think he's better for. It and, then as

Speaker 1: he said THAT lsu game in which he had a

Speaker 1: couple of sacks and a couple of tackles for loss,

Speaker 1: QUOTE i came out more confident than. Ever we'll see

Speaker 1: about his confidence when he returns to the field, again

Speaker 1: hopefully sooner rather than, later but not someone that, again

Speaker 1: the role this season might not be what he. Anticipates

Speaker 1: but it's AS i said this with every draft, pick

Speaker 1: it's not it's about that particular. Season it's for seasons to.

Speaker 1: Come even though Your day three, pick fourth round, selection

Speaker 1: certainly hope to see a lot OF. Kayleb proctor in the.

Speaker 1: Future here with The Arizona. Cardinals the other defensive player

Speaker 1: The cardinals selector remember seven draft, picks just two defensive

Speaker 1: players From caleb how about we hear now From Carson

Speaker 1: shire six, one two thirty one inside linebacker out Of.

Speaker 1: Iowa he was The cardinals sixth round, selection one hundred

Speaker 1: and eighty third. Overall here he is With Paul.

Speaker 5: Calvic all, RIGHT i think the intensity in this radio

Speaker 5: studio just went up big time because we've got a

Speaker 5: linebacker in the, Room Carson, shire round six. Rookie the

Speaker 5: term linebacker Eyes, carson you know the eyes you see

Speaker 5: you know the famous you KNOW iso shots you get ON?

Speaker 5: Tv do you get that way in game? Day if

Speaker 5: we get AN iso right through the face? Mask what

Speaker 5: do your eyes look like on a third and?

Speaker 1: Two?

Speaker 4: YEAH i think just being ready to go and just

Speaker 4: really step and being really intense out there and just

Speaker 4: being able to lead the defense and just trying to

Speaker 4: make a play for the team and trying to change the.

Speaker 1: Game what is your personality like on a game?

Speaker 4: Day you, KNOW i might not be the loudest, guy

Speaker 4: but you know on the field that the intensity is

Speaker 4: definitely up a notch and you know that energy is,

Speaker 4: relentless AND i Think i'm just out there flying around

Speaker 4: trying to make every play possible and just just trying

Speaker 4: to change the game for the. Team all, right and we'll.

Speaker 1: Get to the football in a.

Speaker 5: Minute tell us about the, moment the moment you were

Speaker 5: drafted by The. Cardinals you're so set the scene for.

Speaker 5: Us you're at home In Iowa, Falls.

Speaker 4: Yep that is. Correct SO i was at home with my,

Speaker 4: Parents my, mom, dad and my sister are just hanging

Speaker 4: out on the couch and you, know just just waiting

Speaker 4: for that. Call and you, KNOW i was really speechless

Speaker 4: when WHEN i saw that call, come AND i was

Speaker 4: just really excited, that you, know they called, me AND

Speaker 4: i was just really eager to talk to them and

Speaker 4: see what they had to, say and just grateful for

Speaker 4: them giving me this. Chance And i'm really excited to

Speaker 4: get to.

Speaker 1: WORK i, mean you always hear you work your whole

Speaker 1: life for that. Moment true or? False that is that

Speaker 1: is there a lot of accuracy in.

Speaker 4: That that is. True, Yes ever SINCE i started playing,

Speaker 4: ball you, know that was that was a goal of,

Speaker 4: mine or in a dream of, mine to try to

Speaker 4: make it to this. Level So i'm really excited to

Speaker 4: be here and ready to.

Speaker 5: Go you ever heard Of Kurt, Warner iowa Native hall

Speaker 5: Of fame quarterback Former Cardinal Kurt.

Speaker 1: Warner, yes, OKAY i.

Speaker 5: Have he used to tell us in the as a side,

Speaker 5: job he would detassel.

Speaker 1: Corn is that what it? Was, yes all, Right jimal mart.

Speaker 5: Gives so did you ever do any of, that any

Speaker 5: like odd Jobs iowa's style when you were growing, up

Speaker 5: any of that sort of.

Speaker 4: Stuff, yeah WELL i never did. That, Actually I've i've

Speaker 4: heard that's pretty that's pretty intense there in the. Summer

Speaker 4: but my, dad he has a construction, company SO i

Speaker 4: helped out with him quite a bit growing up and

Speaker 4: poured some concrete and did a lot of work. There

Speaker 4: so it was kind of, fun getting a little blue

Speaker 4: collar work and it was just a great opportunity to

Speaker 4: learn and get my hands dirty.

Speaker 5: And nothing like doing construction for dad to get a

Speaker 5: little work. Ethic and you're, right, exactly that's good. Stuff

Speaker 5: Carson schier is our. Guest tell us about your passion

Speaker 5: for the. Game we've Heard Mike laflor say you can

Speaker 5: flip on, film especially during the draft evaluation process and

Speaker 5: tell if a guy loves the game of, football would

Speaker 5: that be?

Speaker 1: You are you that? Guy?

Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely you, KNOW i just love you, know every

Speaker 4: aspect of the, game just no matter what it is you,

Speaker 4: know going out there on the, field going out there

Speaker 4: in the game and, practice you, know in the in

Speaker 4: the film. ROOM i think just going through your business

Speaker 4: with detailed and just leaning on your, preparation especially in

Speaker 4: the film, room and then being able to go out

Speaker 4: there on the field and, EXECUTE i think is a

Speaker 4: really cool.

Speaker 5: Thing IF i asked you your biggest hit in college

Speaker 5: for The Iowah, hawkeyes does a memory does a highlight

Speaker 5: come to? Mind and the REASON i asked is we

Speaker 5: pose that same question recently to Mac wilson, senior the

Speaker 5: leader of your linebacker, room and he immediately answered it

Speaker 5: was early last Season september against the forty nine ers

Speaker 5: with the fourth down swing pass To christian. McCaffrey, Oh

Speaker 5: Mac Wilson senior DESTROYED cmc on that is there is

Speaker 5: there a you have of?

Speaker 1: It especially big. Hit.

Speaker 4: Yeah so actually on Against nebraska this past, SEASON i

Speaker 4: was on the punk cover team and we were just

Speaker 4: running down and the punt returner kind of he didn't

Speaker 4: he didn't see me, coming and uh kind of caught

Speaker 4: him off guard and had a little force fumble there

Speaker 4: and got got a. Safety so it was a pretty

Speaker 4: cool moment and swing the game a little.

Speaker 5: Bit you had a good head of steam going four

Speaker 5: five six. FORTY i, mean tell us about your. Athleticism

Speaker 5: forty inch. Vertical we had Assistant Jim Dave sears and

Speaker 5: here recently, said you're a heck of a. Hooper you

Speaker 5: play a mean game of basketball with a forty inch.

Speaker 5: Vertical i'm guessing you can.

Speaker 4: Finish, yeah oh, yeah of, course you know that's that's

Speaker 4: fun part of the. Game but, Yeah i've played a

Speaker 4: lot of basketball growing up and just enjoyed going out

Speaker 4: there and, competing and, yeah definitely helped me help my

Speaker 4: athleticism and get out of there on the field. Too.

Speaker 5: Well one takeaway THAT i have over all the years

Speaker 5: of That cardinals locker. ROOM i think you're gonna find this.

Speaker 5: Out everybody in there thinks they can, ball everyone thinks

Speaker 5: they can play. Basketball BUT i think you have some

Speaker 5: good credit on. That tell me about the other Thing

Speaker 5: Dave sears told us about was the caliber of coaching

Speaker 5: At iowa and just just sort of the CONFIDENCE nfl

Speaker 5: evaluators have in players from that.

Speaker 1: Program tell us about.

Speaker 5: That tell us about how you've improved as a player

Speaker 5: over your five years, there and what is it about

Speaker 5: the culture or the.

Speaker 4: Coaching, YEAH i think the culture there is on. Match you,

Speaker 4: know ever Since i've been, there no coaches have really.

Speaker 4: Left and Coach farns has been there for over twenty five,

Speaker 4: years and he does a great job leading the program

Speaker 4: and just he really treats it like it's one of

Speaker 4: the professional program and really wants to see it at

Speaker 4: it succeed at the high level and just holds everyone

Speaker 4: to a very high. Standard as well as my position,

Speaker 4: coach defensive coordinator and special teams. Coach you, know they

Speaker 4: all they're great coaches and they really know how to

Speaker 4: get the best out of you and how to teach

Speaker 4: teach the, game and you, KNOW i just Think i'm

Speaker 4: really grateful for, them and they just do a great

Speaker 4: job preparing you to play and get to the next.

Speaker 5: Level Carson shire's our Guest round six rookie out Of.

Speaker 5: Iowa you played in forty eight games in, college you

Speaker 5: had thirteen. STARTS i, mean how much were you chomping

Speaker 5: in the bit to be a starter your last?

Speaker 1: Year?

Speaker 4: OH i really. Was you, KNOW i was really excited

Speaker 4: to finally get that opportunity to go out, there AND

Speaker 4: i was really grateful for my, coaches and they taught

Speaker 4: me well and just just helped me get out there

Speaker 4: and succeed out there on the.

Speaker 1: Field what are you most proud of last?

Speaker 5: Season because you put up a lot of, numbers including four,

Speaker 5: sacks you had what a dozen tackles for. Loss looks

Speaker 5: like you have a pretty good ability getting into the.

Speaker 4: Backfield, yeah, YEAH i, KNOW i just pretty instinctual. Guys

Speaker 4: SO i think just being out there and just knowing

Speaker 4: the game plan and being able to execute my job

Speaker 4: and then just just hold my teammates and then just

Speaker 4: just working together to try to win the. GAME i,

Speaker 4: think you, know AT, iowa that's that's the biggest, thing

Speaker 4: is just the teamwork, aspect and everyone has their job

Speaker 4: and trying to win the one on one battle and

Speaker 4: just being able to go out there and execute and

Speaker 4: play at a high level for each.

Speaker 5: Other you, know one of these kind of reports said

Speaker 5: he's rarely fooled by. Misdirection they complimented your FOOTBALL. Iq

Speaker 5: how confident do you, feel you, know reading reacting seek and?

Speaker 5: Destroy you, know do you consider that a strength in your?

Speaker 4: Game, Yeah i'm very instinctual. Player you, KNOW i not

Speaker 4: fooled by. MUCH i can see the ball And i'll

Speaker 4: go get the. Ball and that all comes with your

Speaker 4: preparation and your film study based on the opponents at

Speaker 4: tendencies and just seeing what they what they like to,

Speaker 4: do and then just just seeing it come out and

Speaker 4: on the.

Speaker 5: Field so how curious he are you to find out

Speaker 5: how advanced these pro offenses?

Speaker 4: Are?

Speaker 1: Right they can get pretty, complex pretty.

Speaker 4: Advanced, Yeah, no you never know what's gonna, Come so you,

Speaker 4: KNOW i always got to lean lean on your preparation

Speaker 4: and make sure you're in the film room and just

Speaker 4: making sure you're always prepared for what's.

Speaker 1: Coming tell us about special.

Speaker 5: Teams five hundred and forty five snaps on special, teams

Speaker 5: And i'll Cite Buddha, baker eight Time pro bowler his

Speaker 5: first year went to The Pro bowl on special. Teams

Speaker 5: Tyron matthew was the starting safety at that. Point and

Speaker 5: there's one word they used to Describe buddha on special

Speaker 5: teams THAT i see in Your scotter report. Fearless so

Speaker 5: tell us about your mentality on special.

Speaker 4: Teams, yeah you, Know i've ever SINCE i got To.

Speaker 4: Iowa that was the biggest thing preach, is you, know

Speaker 4: starting off on special teams and Coach. Woods he does

Speaker 4: a great, job you, know emphasizing that and giving you that,

Speaker 4: opportunity AND i, think you, know just getting that opportunity

Speaker 4: at a young age and just being able to go

Speaker 4: out there and have fun and. Compete you, know just

Speaker 4: just bringing it every single play and not not taking a,

Speaker 4: PLAYOFF i think is the biggest. Thing just always giving

Speaker 4: your full effort and then just knowing what what the

Speaker 4: opponent's going to give, you and then just being able

Speaker 4: to execute those looks and and just fly around and

Speaker 4: make make a.

Speaker 1: Play Longtime cardinal. Fantasy, yeah Former Cardinal LeVar. Woods so AND.

Speaker 5: I know you had The zoom call With Rod wilson

Speaker 5: right before the. Draft just what were your, takeaways you

Speaker 5: know in that call with Coach Wilson and at that

Speaker 5: point you get a little inkling maybe The cardinals might

Speaker 5: be your.

Speaker 1: Destination.

Speaker 4: Yeah, NO I i had a great time meeting with Coach.

Speaker 4: Wilson you, know he's he's a great coach and really

Speaker 4: really nice guy and great great to learn, from and you,

Speaker 4: Know i'm just really excited to get to know him

Speaker 4: even better and learn learn more from, him and really

Speaker 4: excited to you, know get to work with.

Speaker 5: Him all, Right, carson you ready to do the rookie

Speaker 5: Do by the, way you, know If Mac Wilson senior

Speaker 5: needs some donuts on A friday or something like, that

Speaker 5: you're ready to go with. That.

Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely whatever they, Need i'm good for.

Speaker 1: It, okay all, Right, carson great to meet. You thanks

Speaker 1: all the. Best thank. You rookie, Duties, Yeah carson better

Speaker 1: be ready for those rookie. Duties and some position rooms

Speaker 1: are easier or harder on their rookies than. OTHERS i

Speaker 1: think offensive linemen tend to be a little bit harder

Speaker 1: on their. Rookies, certainly it does matter how many players

Speaker 1: you have in a particular. Room as far as inside,

Speaker 1: Linebackers you've got, six Including Carson, shier who we didn't

Speaker 1: see a ton of during the. Offseason he was working

Speaker 1: off on the, side we find out, later much Like Caleb,

Speaker 1: proctor but not nearly as. Serious but head Coach Michael

Speaker 1: flora outs during mandatory mini camp That shire have been

Speaker 1: dealing with a hamstring, injury but he should be good

Speaker 1: to go once training camp, begins and that Is july twenty.

Speaker 1: Second the team reports first Practice july twenty, third AND

Speaker 1: i can See shire as one of those players who

Speaker 1: has a, role maybe even an immediate role because of

Speaker 1: his ability to play special. Teams he has played a

Speaker 1: lot of special, teams AND i think that's where these,

Speaker 1: rookies especially when you hear your name called on day,

Speaker 1: three that's how you get on the field the quickest

Speaker 1: to be able to play on special. Teams And, shire

Speaker 1: even though he may not be the, biggest you can

Speaker 1: play special. Teams know the ends and the, outs the

Speaker 1: smarts and some. Tricks you can develop into a special teams.

Speaker 1: Player you have a uniform on game day and then

Speaker 1: all of a, sudden you're up and ready to go

Speaker 1: if there is an injury at your. Position so keep

Speaker 1: an eye On. Kaisher Carson. Shire maybe not the loudest,

Speaker 1: guy but the intensity that you see out Of shire

Speaker 1: does increase on the field on game, day AND i

Speaker 1: think that's what you saw At. Iowa but Both carson

Speaker 1: And caleb talked about the need on special, teams and

Speaker 1: certainly without the benefit of Having Caleb proctor on the

Speaker 1: field right, Away Carson, SHIRE i think is gonna be

Speaker 1: that defensive player that The cardinals do, see and maybe

Speaker 1: even sooner rather than later because of his ability to

Speaker 1: play special teams love hearing the journey that these players

Speaker 1: take in their playing. Careers once you arrive in the,

Speaker 1: building you are. Here doesn't matter when you heard your,

Speaker 1: name caled or how you got. Here you're a part

Speaker 1: of a ninety man roster with the goal to get

Speaker 1: to that final fifty. Three and these are two players

Speaker 1: In Kayleb proctor And Carson shire that hopefully knock on

Speaker 1: wood have long careers with The Arizona, cardinals but always

Speaker 1: good to catch up with those two players and hear

Speaker 1: how they became An Arizona cardinal Player special thanks to

Speaker 1: not Only Caleb proctor And carson S paul Calvic aswall

Speaker 1: and everyone behind the scenes are executive Producer Jim Mamma

Speaker 1: Hedra our associate Producer Cuddy. Fincher we'll talk to you

Speaker 1: next time here On Cardinals cover. Two