Moore: Arizona Cardinals rookies are getting advice from everywhere. Who do they trust?

The Arizona Cardinals’ new guys are getting advice from everywhere.

Some people are telling them what to do with their money. Some are telling them how they should handle their social media. Others are giving tips on how to work out and what supplements to take.

It’s going to be rough, trying to figure out who’s trustworthy.

Some people want to set them up for failure. Some want to steal from them. Others are just blowhards, giving advice without knowing what they’re talking about.

I just hope they listen to anyone who tells them to drink water. Lots and lots of water. I hope they go to bed earlier than they have to. And that they take care of their teeth and gums.

I hope they learn how to express themselves and be assertive without being jerks.

But mostly, I hope they all have someone like Myjai Sanders’ big sister, Armaletha.

“My sister taught me a lot of stuff in life,” Sanders said. “I just always want to thank her for that.”

'Life ain’t guaranteed'

She died in 2016 in a motorcycle crash, Sanders said.

He said they were close growing up. She was six years older, and she taught him how to play sports, even hitting him in the face with a baseball once. (He said the sun was in his eyes.)

“She played girls’ flag football. She was a receiver,” he said. “She definitely taught me how to play football, basketball, baseball.”

He uses her death as inspiration.

“Me and her had a lot of talks … that’s what makes me play the way I play today. I play with that chip on my shoulder,” he said. “Every day, I practice with a chip on my shoulder. I work out with a chip on my shoulder. I know that life ain’t guaranteed.”

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Sanders is going to try to replace Chandler Jones.

If you think that represents a big goal, Cameron Thomas is trying to be the next J.J. Watt.

“He’s really just like my role model,” Thomas said. “I watched a lot of his film. To be able to learn from him, I’m really excited to be able to pick his brain. I’m really looking forward to it.”

He hasn’t met Watt, yet. But he wants to be able to line up anywhere and attack the quarterback like Watt has for the last decade.

“Wherever you line him up, he’s just going to win,” Thomas said.

He’s gotten advice, too.

“Be yourself,” he said. “That’s the main thing I was told.”

Keaontay Ingram has a chance to replace Chase Edmonds in the Arizona backfield.

Ingram has been told to “be consistent, attack the details.”

That’s helpful. Consistency has been a problem around here lately. And there are plenty of details in coach Kliff Kingsbury’s offense.

That only figures to get more complicated with two receiving targets at tight end.

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'Just make sure you keep going'

Trey McBride was widely considered the best tight end prospect in the draft. The Cardinals already have three-time Pro Bowler Zach Ertz at the position.

“I think Coach Kingsbury is gonna do a good job of navigating that,” McBride said, “and really finding ways to get everybody on the field and working together … (I’m) really excited to introduce myself and get to know (Ertz) and really kind of build that relationship with him since we will be spending a lot of time together.”

I hope that any advice that McBride, Ingram, Thomas and Sanders get is genuine, but we know that won’t be the case.

Some people want to set them up for failure. Others want to steal from them.

And even if the guidance they get is sincere, it still might not be any good.

Some people are just blowhards, telling others what they should or shouldn’t do without knowing what they’re talking about.

I hope the new guys have a trusted team of advisors from all realms of life, and beyond.

Like Sanders has in his big sister.

He carries her advice every day.

“Just keep going, no matter what happens in life … just make sure you keep going,” he remembers her telling him. “One of her biggest things to me was just to stay myself. No matter who I became, just always stay myself and don’t let a lot of stuff push me from what my main goal was.”

Good advice comes from everywhere.

I hope these guys don’t have too much of a struggle figuring out who’s trustworthy.

Reach Moore at gmoore@azcentral.com or 602-444-2236. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter @SayingMoore.

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