 I got the energy. I got the energy. It's Buda Baker. I woke up feeling a lot. Cut down by Buda Baker. I got the energy. And he goes down. Art and soul of the Arizona Cardinals. Phoenix of course, hosting the Super Super Bowl. Super star, Buda Baker is here. Hi. How you doing? Hey, cheers to you. Cheers. Now we just had Christian McCaffrey and he did not have a cocktail. So I'm wondering if this is a competitive advantage in the P&G battle of the paddles that's going on tonight at 7 on Twitch. Talk to me about this. Well, I mean this is the last drink I'll have for a couple weeks. I definitely felt like this was a good time to have my last drink. I agree. Talk to me about your ping pong skills because Christian said he started playing seriously when he was 11 years old and he was talking that talk. Yeah. So me, I started playing when I was about eight. I didn't play professionally high school or that stuff. He told me, but you know, I've been playing against the boroughs since sixth grade, you know. So it's been a while and I'm excited to play against these guys. I'm going to put a little bit of spin on it, put a little speed on it. Okay. Who's your biggest competition? There's eight guys. Nobody. Nobody. You don't even think of it? Do you guys play in the locker room? Have you heard the song Money Bag Yo? Yes. Lately I've been feeling like it's me versus me. Don't see competition, why will you compete? That's just how I feel. Let's talk about your cardinals here. The team hired Monty Alsonpour is the new GM. We're still looking for a coaching replacement for Cliff Kingsbury. Has he sent you a postcard from Thailand? Yeah. He sent me a postcard. Yeah, he did. He did. It was nice. He's having a good time. Okay. So what are you looking for in your new coach? Give me the one most important quality in the guy that comes in. There's so many qualities, but I like real, you know, just be real, you know, whatever that is, just be yourself. Don't be anything else. Don't be anything different. You don't got to try to put any type of front with anybody. Just be real, be who you are, whether that's a, you know, a loud mouth or whether that's a quiet, more, you know, humblest type person. So just be whoever you are and, you know, we'll go from there. Something that I really like is that Eagles coach, he's who he is. Nick Siriani. Exactly. So just seeing that is definitely special as a player. I love that. So that's something for you. For a quarterback, the coach is really important too. So in Kyler shoes, and you go up against him in practice all the time. What quality in a head coach does he need the most? Yeah, I feel like it's going to be more structure, you know, understanding what to do, understanding the little intricate details of the game plan weekend and week out. And I definitely feel like that coach is going to have to need that for Kyler and for the whole team because, you know, we kind of need that. You know, that foundation, that front runner type person that is going to, you know, show us what we have to do before the week to win. And then we'll go from there. How big of a role do you have in that? You're talking to me like a leader. Yeah. You were three time all pro. You've been there, you've done that. You know, exactly. So, you know, like you said, I like to lead in a sense of, of course, the way I work, the way I go throughout the week, but also anytime guys have questions, anytime that, you know, whether that's special teams, defense office, they have questions. I'm trying to find out that answer for them or ask coaches about it. So one big thing I do is I love to ask questions. I don't want any person to not have an understanding because if you don't have an understanding in this game, you play slow. And if you play slow, you lose. Buddha, I wish we had a whole hour with you. This is incredible. And I can't believe I've never met you before. Yeah. I want to talk about a couple of things. You're having a good time. You're here at Superbowl's Ready Row. It's in Phoenix. You know the area so well. Your Pro Bowl interception off Derrick, right? Yeah. Let's look at this. This just looks so good. I thought you were ran out of bounds. I thought you were GK Metcalfen into the bathroom, Buddha. Talk me through this. Oh, man. Oh, you know, I just ran. I thought I was running to the post. And then, you know, I was a half field player, tried to throw that little rail shot. I told Jair at the time, actually, I'm like, yo, it's covered too. If he throws that out, jump it. No, jump it because if he throws a nine ball, I'm going to pick it off. So he's like, are you sure? I was like, yes. He threw it out or he ran it out to run it out. He jumped it. So Derrick thought he had the rail shot nine ball. You know, so that's all she wrote. It was a good time. That's all she wrote. It was a good time. And also, listen, I know the script for the 2022 Cardinals wasn't great, but there was a moment in your 2022 script that I got to have you talk through and hit me with. And I particularly enjoyed your week time performance. Look, the 2022 script for Buddha Baker. Week 10 rounds. Talk to me. Yes, right here. I'm disguising. It's kind of a cover four type of concept. And, you know, I was just reading the quarterback. Isaiah Simmons was able to force, you know, air around that ball. Nice little tip. And, you know, that was a game that was special for me because I had a high ankle spraying the week before. And, you know, guys said I was going to be out three to five weeks. And, you know, it took about four days. How did you do that? A whole lot of work. A whole lot of work throughout the whole week, whether that was ankle exercises, of course, you know, pool workouts, just trying to get that, you know, mobility back and a little bit of strength so I could at least play a good 75%. It's amazing. That was my favorite moment probably from your 2022 script. Also in your script, you faced both of these Super Bowl teams. Yes. You took on KC. You took on Philadelphia Eagles. Talk to me about that. What would you say is more difficult? Who, rather? Patrick Mahomes or Jaylen Hertz? More difficult to prepare for and then execute? Both. Both of you? Both of you have their different qualities. Of course, Pat Mahomes, you guys see him making those crazy throws inside the pocket, outside the pocket, behind the back passes. So you always have to be ready for him to throw the ball. You know, the weapons he has, you know, Travis has been doing it for a long time. So, you know, Andy Reid does a great job and also their offensive coordinator, Eric Byanami does a great job of getting those guys into those specific zones and just gives, you know, the time for Pat Mahomes to throw that ball and then you have Jaylen Hertz where it's a different offense. You know, it's kind of, you know, line out a little wider. See the numbers. If the numbers are low, throw the ball. If the numbers are high, run the ball. A guy who can run outside the pocket. Yeah. Make those crazy passes outside the pocket as well. So. Even. Exactly. Okay. So the Eagles, they probably have a better roster, better team, right? They got a great run, great offensive line. They got a good pass. Yeah. We'll see. Right. We'll see. So they don't have a Travis Kelce though. David Dallas Goddard, that's great. Why I'm watching these games and I'm like, why is he open? What is so hard about covering him? Tell me what is so hard about covering him? Yeah. I mean, a lot of people think that we just go out there and just, you know, try to, you know, line up and, oh, you see this guy? You have a mitten, but no, that's not how it works. And defense, you have specific play calls, specific things that you have to do, and specific zones you play. You know, cover two zone is not going to be the same zone as a cover four, right? So they're just able to understand the zones and understand how to get out of those zones because in zone defense, there's always something small that, you know, they can get to, or there's always a guy that can run out and force another guy to be that person. Right. So they just do a great job of doing that. But if you're Nick Siriani, who you like, because he's real. Yeah. And you want to help him. Cover Kelsey, what would you tell him? You're calling the, you're doing the play calls. You're doing the, what would it like? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm telling him, you need to know where he is at all times, but you need to also have bodies on him at all times because in zone coverages, he's going to, he's going to get out of that zone. I don't care if it's, what, I don't care if it's cover four, cover two, he's going to get out of that zone and he's going to catch the ball and he's going to get that yak. So you got to have like almost a man on him the whole time, just mess, like hitting him. Talking to him. The whole time, the whole game. If not, you're going to see a bunch of first downs, you're going to see a bunch of you're just going to see it. Even with Patrick down all those receivers on one foot, it's hard to say they're not going to win this game. It's evenly matched for sure. Yeah. Who you got? Chiefs? Eagles. Man. Voodoo? I, the Chiefs beat our butt. Eagles was a closer game. But I will say I'm a defensive player. I like defense. So I'm going to say Eagles because of that defense, that defensive line. Hasan Reddick. Anytime you have three guys. So good. Three plus guys that have more than 10 seconds, that's unheard of. So. Aren't you so happy for Hasan Reddick? I love this for him. So happy. Because of course we were in the same draft together. He was the first round pick. I was the second round pick. So at the time we had B.A. staff and Bruce Aaron staff. Yeah. Tell me about Hasan then. It was a great guy. A guy who wanted to work hard. A guy who played on the edge in college and then he got in the league and they tried to, you know, move him off the ball. So it's different. That's like me playing, you know, safety my whole life and then you're moving me down to middle linebacker. Like that's just a different in this league. So, you know, we had that struggle for the first few years and he played on the edge, rough position and he played really good for us and, you know, of course, at the time, you know, we wanted to keep him but at the end of the day he had to go to where he felt comfortable and that was the Panthers had a great season with them and then now, you know, now he's with the Eagles. So I'm definitely excited for him. Happy for him and I'm loving him for defensive player of the year. He didn't get nominated. Isn't that insane? It's crazy. And of course, Jones deserves a nomination and all of that but like to not give it to not give us on any of that love. They got a bunch of all pros on that defense. Doesn't make sense. It's crazy. Okay, I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed this conversation. You promised me that you'll come talk to me again at some point. Yes. Because you, I just learned so much. Hamilton, I'm obsessed with Budabaker. I'm obsessed with Budabaker. I was not ready for this conversation. I loved it. Enjoy your tequila. We're coming down there and I'll get over here. Okay. It's the P&G battle of the paddles. Come over here. Come follow me. Take your shot. Take your A1A. Kendall Jenner. We love you. There's no tequila in there. It's just orange juice. No, it's not. It's just orange juice. It's just orange juice. Don't freak out everybody. All right. Here we go. We've got a leaderboard. Come on over here. Here's our leaderboard. Darius Butler was at the top. Your boy, your competition in the P&G battle of the paddles, 7 p.m. Eastern on Twitch Tonight, eight elite level ping pong players slash NFL players. You've got to get this somehow into that. You could throw it. You could bounce it. That's what Darius Butler did. Okay. Or you could flex on them and paddle. You've got 30 seconds. Keep going. We'll see how many you can get. What did this guy do? Did he throw it? What did Christian do? All right. Just, okay. All right. What did this guy do? He won't even say his name. Christian, he won't even say your name. You don't mean nothing in it. I don't even know that guy. All right. I'm just going to start. Once you throw it, I'll start it. All right. Ready? One, two, three. Ready? Go. Oh, man. Oh, man. You got this. You got this. You got this. You got to go slow. All right. You got plenty of time. 25 seconds. Just five seconds past. Oh, man. Come on. You sunk one. Can we hear a little Boota. Boota. Boota. Come on. How much time I got? You got eight seconds. All right. Good performance. Buzzer. At the buzzer. At the buzzer. That was good. That was good. That was good. One, two, three, four, five. All right. Write it in. Second place. Oh, close. All right. Write it in. You got your five. And we'll see what happens. Okay. We are wishing you luck. That five looked muted. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. I feel like I found my new best friend here somehow. I'm obsessed with Boota Baker. Three times I'll probably meet you near you sometime. Okay. Is that I guess I know this right? Someday. Someday. Yeah. I'm going to buy this ice that you like. I'll see you guys later. See you later. I'm coming out.