Trey McBride's Insights on Facing Zone Defense at Super Bowl 59

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00:00Hello everyone, it's Adam Kaplan here for SportsGrid at Super Bowl 59 and the

00:04man to my right, I saw at the Senior Bowl three years ago, he's number 85 out of

00:09Colorado State but now with the Arizona Cardinals and in year four that's Trey

00:13McBride. Trey, nice to see you. Yeah, thank you so much for having me on, this would be

00:16great. All right, so let's first of all, you went against the Eagles last year.

00:19Now, they're a big zone defense. The real Vic Fangio now is running

00:23their defense. So as a tight end, what is the key to going up against a defense

00:27like that? You know, it's one of those things where you got to find different

00:30pockets to get open. You know, those man-to-man beaters aren't gonna always

00:34be there but you got to know what what zones you're attacking, where you're

00:37trying to get open and what the play design is and if you guys can all, you

00:41know, work together and get into those zones together, it opens up the whole

00:44defense. All right, so you play them last year and you guys had an incredible win

00:48in Philly. Kind of the fans, Philly fans were not very happy. Oh, I know. As you know,

00:52they'll boo a little bit. Yeah. You guys put up a ton of points and that was

00:56the Fangio defense. It was before Vic got there, they've been running it. How do you

01:00guys move the ball so well? You know, I think just getting prepared every week.

01:03Drew Petzing, obviously we have a Kyler Murray who's, you know, he makes stuff

01:07happen by himself but James Conner had a great game that week and obviously I

01:11think we were just very prepared. Coming into that game, Jonathan Gannon had just

01:14got hired from Philly so there was a lot of, you know, a lot of hate going into

01:18that game and, you know, we were four and 13, I think, at the time and we

01:22needed to win and it was just such a surreal moment. We had a lot of guys that

01:25we brought from Philly. JG just came from there so it was a must-win game for

01:29us that game. You mentioned Drew Petzing, the offensive coordinator, and you guys

01:31do run the ball a lot. A lot of 12-person, I think? Yeah. Two tight ends. 12, 13, we do it all.

01:35Yep, yep, yep. Give us just a bird's-eye view of that scheme, what it's like to play

01:39in so far. It's the most fun I've ever had, man. He loves tight ends. He features

01:44the tight end in this offense and that's something that I really appreciate out

01:47of him. He's produced a lot of, you know, Austin Hooper, Dejoku, those are guys

01:52that have played in his offense. So just for me to be a part of that, to me to be

01:55featured as much as I do in that offense, it's so much fun and not only that, like

01:59you said, we have 12 personnel. I think we led the NFL actually in 13 personnel

02:03this last year. Wow. So they... Three tight ends. Yeah, Drew loves to put the tight

02:06ends out there and obviously as much as we can, I love getting out there with my

02:11guys. All right, so you're also here for, you're up for Walter Payton Man of the

02:14Year. So let's talk about your channel Ventures here. Just give the people out

02:19there an idea of what you've been doing off the field. Yeah, I do a lot of stuff

02:21but the things I focus on, I work with the Boys and Girls Club a lot and

02:25military is another thing that I focus on, but youth and military are the two

02:29things I really focus on. It means a lot to my heart and just to give back to the

02:33community. We have such a huge platform as athletes to give back and that's

02:37something I really try to take advantage of and I'm just so honored that the

02:40Cardinals had nominated me for this award and I'm excited to see, you know,

02:44who brings it home tonight. So your work off the field, so you talk about the

02:48military. My father was in the Navy, my nephew's in the Navy, you know, everyone

02:52has a motivation to to give back. What was your motivation as a kid growing up?

02:56For me, I think my parents did a great job of instilling giving back at a

03:00young age. My mom was always involved in the community. She was always working at

03:04a nonprofit, handing out, you know, helping with Thanksgiving dinners, wrapping

03:09presents for families at Christmas. So I think at a young age, I just wanted to

03:14give back. I wanted to be like her and she kind of instilled that in me at a

03:17young age and it's just something that now I have this platform as a football

03:21player that I can, you know, give back and be a huge part of the community.

03:24That's great work, Trey. Well, good luck tonight. For Trey McBride, I'm Adam Kaplan.

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