Big Red Rage - Cardinals Recharge For Stretch Run

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doesn't get any better than that. Unleash the far and we start by quoting zach Ertz, mister two touchdowns and one spike in the face of the twelves quote, Really, there is no worse feeling than losing before the bye week. Well, well, the Arizona Cardinals don't have to worry about that, not after winning in Seattle for the fifth time in seven years. As it turns out, Ron Wolfley, you were there. It

was raining in Seattle. It was raining down booze from the Twelves, ripping the home team as the fans actually left early, just like coach Double Rainbow bolted as press conference early afterwards as they have hit rock bottom in Seattle thanks to the Arizona Cardinals in a twenty three thirteen win that leaves the Cardinals wait for it, nine and two, six and Ozo on the road four and oh in the division success Ron Wolflee, can you handle it tonight on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan

Ford and Gilbert we are satan for of course I can handle it, Polly. The question is can you handle it from your sideline perspective right now? It's amazing that you bring that up, because as the booze we're starting to rain down. I looked at Dave Passion, I was like, have you ever heard that before? Never? Never, Polly, You've been there as well, You've been on that sideline. Have you ever heard the twelves booing Russell Wilson in the

Seattle Seahawks? Not once? And look, the Cardinals have won up there before. Never have they turned on the home team. And I think it's the realization that, oh boy, we're not very good and we're old. Oh boy, we're not very good. We're old, and we don't have much of a future when it comes to draft picks thanks to the Jamal Adam straight and some other busted first round picks. I mean, things are looking dire in the Pacific Northwest. Polly, you think about this. Right here, there was a fourth

down play where the Arizona Cardinals went fall. It a fourth down play that they targeted Jamal Adams. Think about that for a minute, right now, Okay, where Colt McCoy they cleared everybody out and they put zach Ertz on. They put zach Ertz on Jamal Adams, and Colt McCoy targeted him. Paul, stop and think about that. And they got a DPI against him because in man cover, he can't do it. He can't. Got to think about this. You're to how much money did Jamal Adams get, Paul,

how much was he paid? I'm telling you what it was. It was a boatload up there in Seattle that he got. And you're telling me that you're gonna get targeted because you can't cover a man in man coverage. That is that is unbelievable. Well, Wolf, if you would have been listening to the sideline reports, what did we say near the top of the broadcast from the field that if they had their chances, yes downfield in coverage, they would go after number thirty three. And that's what they did

in that critical moment. It was. It was one of a bunch of Cliff Kingsbury play calls and look, oh yeah, I'm like you, Wolf, and it's you know, it's so subjective and how the heck is Paully pencil had qualified it to But when it comes to the old laminated play sheet, I mean, Cliff Kingsbury was on his a game, was he not? Yeah, no, there's no doubt about it. Paully I thought this was one of his best games,

one of his best called games. There was one call I'll tell you right now and again, remember remember the shuttle pass to Larry Fitzgerald. To remember that to play that Dave. Of course he called it a shovel pass. I called it the shuttle pass. I understand different terminologies right there, but remember that play. Larry scored in a touchdown, and that play to me was so well thought out. It was a play who knew they were practicing for two years and practice and it never used in a game,

and then suddenly BA called it. And that was one play that I pointed to and said, what a great call that truly is. Play number two where I've ever said that in like seventeen years of broadcasting happened up in Seattle with Cliff Kingsbury and all of a sudden, the Colt McCoy quarterback draw that to me, Paul, nobody saw that coming. Nobody saw that James Connor leading up through the hole. That was so well thought out, so well executed. It caught the Seahawks by surprise in the

Arizona Cardinals at a first in goal. All right, So two notes on that number One, what did Cliff Kingsbury tell us in the postgame radio interview that he'd been sitting on that for a couple of weeks. He wanted and called against Carolina, but he's like, I'm not going to waste it in this game because this game's a goner.

Number two. Colt McCoy was a guest on the Dave Pash podcast and coming up a little bit later on The Big Red Rage, he'll give you the inside and the insight that play call in particular, right there, love that. But first here's Cliff Kingsbury on the message heading into the Seattle showdown. We talked about what was in front

of us beginning of the week. You know, we were so disappointed after last week, but we came in we pointed out, hey, this is what's in front of us, the best record of football and undefeated in the division going in our by weekend. Any of us would have taken that start of the saying, so let's finish it, let's get to that point. How many times did you say after the game that the Cardinals were ticked off? He didn't exactly use that word ticked, but they were

ticked off and they were angry. And you know what, any team that loses like that at home to Carolina, a lackluster game, you know, it was it's almost it's almost like they took a sick day from work. It's like they were sick of playing football. I mean, they just didn't show up. But the way they were spotted, and did we not talk about that before the game. It's all about how you respond to a game like that, because that seemingly has happened to every single division leader.

No You're right, PAULI, it really has. It's not just Arizona Cardinals, no way. It's happened to a lot of good teams across the league. I'd say over the last three weeks, if you went back and looked at it, Man, I think most people would be stunned at how many good teams talking maybe not great teams, but good teams

lost a sub five hundred teams. Here's here's what I love right now the most about where the Arizona Cardinals are at nine and two going into the by Paul, it's the fact that they are now six and oo on the road and have now beat four playoff teams from a year ago. Paul, four playoff teams from a year ago in their stadium by double digits. Horrible, A Paul, that is that is the hallmark right there. That is a calling card of being a really, really good football team.

Chandler Jones is a really really good football player because he's your NFC Defensive Player of the Week for the second time this season. After two sacks, three quarterback hits, two tackles for loss. He had four tackles overall and a forced fumble. And guess what he led the way for a Cardinals defense that paved the way to this nine and two record. Here's Chandler, so walk up to the field with the best record in NFL. I mean,

it's an amazing feeling. It goes to show you that none of the work goes in vain that we put in throughout the week and other for us to do it without, you know, Kyler and Dehap. It goes and show you that the strength of our deaths you know, next man up, and that all reflects to our to our front office, and our and our coaches. How about Chandler also saying after the game that Colt McCoy told him, you know what, just play more, feel the game, think less.

Almost like in baseball when you're a slump, you tell a hitter, you get up there and just say, you know what, seaball hit ball. Keep it simple. You have all the moves, you have all the experience. It was interesting to hear him say that Colton McCoy was the guy who gave him some value added advice. Paullie, how many times have we had the conversation about accountability. Accountability?

That's part of accountability. It is the fact that you would walk up to a teammate and actually say something to him that you think is going to help him.

That's what Colt McCoy did. And then it speaks to the incredible humility the accountability of Colton McCoy, a leader who's been around for a long time and watched a lot of football not only on tape but live and in person as well, and watching chant and feeling comfortable enough to walk up the chan and give him that little tip right there, you know what, just just play.

It looks like you're thinking too much. And and then here's the here's the second part of it that I love the humility of Chandler Jones to receive that, Paul, to receive that from a backup quarterback. I mean, here's a guy who's led the NFL and sacks ever since he entered the league twenty twelve. Here's a guy who easily could have looked down at Cole McCoy and said, you know what, I sack guys like you for breakfast. What are you telling me about how to do my job?

But he didn't take it that way, right, So you know that's how this team that's and wolf is that not evidence of the evolution from a year ago, the leadership provided and leader and then some of that input received. Yes once again, though, PAULI, it really is it's it's the accountability. It explains what is going on inside that locker room. You and I we've heard the reports. There's no nobody in that locker room that isn't accountable to

somebody else. There's nobody in that locker room who doesn't have a peer. There's nobody in that locker room that other guys can't walk up to and speak into their career, so to speak, speak into their life and what it is that they're doing. I love the accountability. He got a bunch of dogs, Paul, They got a bunch of dogs barking in that locker room. And I'll tell you what Cliff Kingsbury loved, you know, doing something about those

slow starts that he cited here and there. Right, they come out, they go sixteen plays, they go eighty two yards. They had three third down conversions, and Cliff Kingsbury talked about that after the Seattle win. Yeah, I thought Cole was tremendous on third down, checking it down when it wasn't there, getting through his progressions and extending drives and that really kind of put us over the top. Yeah, the decision making for Cole McCoy, obviously that was big.

Then speaking of Cole McCoy, I mean, think about it, fans. Joseph said it well this week he said, how many teams lose their starting quarterback and then actually win two out of three division road games? He said, most teams in that situation go, oh for three. Here's Colt McCoy on winning as a starter. Well, to be honest, it's just my responsibility. That's how I see it. I came here to be a part of this team, in this group,

and when your numbers called like, that's my role. I'm proud to have won a couple of games on the road. So I'm very thankful that Kyler guy one more week arrest. We gotta win going into the bye week, all the bumps and bruises and Hopkins and some of the old lineman can have some time to rest and recover, and we're in a pretty good shape to move forward. What do you think that says to every other guy on that sideline? What do you think that says to every

other guy in that locker room? Paul? That Colt McCoy went out there and played as well as he did two of the three games. No, forget about the Carolina game, all right, I mean there was nobody who played well, at least in my assessment, there was nobody that actually played well in that Carolina game. I mean, I thought Big Red had a bad games. What do you doe it? It was? It was bad. Stop and think about it. Man, What that says to every guy on that sideline and

in that locker room. You do your job. Colt's gonna be fine. If Kyler goes down, the Arizona Cardinals are gonna be fine. You do your job, don't you worry about it. Colt McCoy is worthy enough, He's good enough to win games. You do your job. That's what it says. And that's a beautiful thing. And it's those two other Saints players like to say, right, next man up and the standard is the standard. Yes, you still go out

and expect to win. Hey. Episode eight of Cardinal's Folk Tales Intelil Money Mike's Redemption, available now on Cardinals YouTube channel That's YouTube dot com, slash Acy Cardinals and original audio podcasts also available search Cardinals Folk Tales and your favorite podcast provider, and then Cardinal's flight plan Ready to Rise premieres tonight at seven on the YouTube channel as well. We continue with a big red rage. The shovel passed to Art straight ahead. He catches it and walks in

for a touchdown. Fires a deep ball right side, jump up on Hey, j Green went up high and got it. Shotguns snapped him. McCoy balls loose on the ground. He picks it up, throws over the middle. Hey, it's caught for a touchdown by Herts. McCoy off play action, goes over the middle and want a catch by Green in Seattle territory and a high pass you had. Aj Green run across the middle with the inspector. Gadget, go go, gadget get a ball and snapped McCoy. He pumps right now.

He's taken down at the right time and he gets out of there, runs to the left, still running now, throws in a diving attempt and it's caught by Arts inside the thirty five at the thirty four for fifteen yards. The boy quarterbacks sneak up the middle of the fifteen of the tent, but Koy cuts left and he's wrapped up and thrown down of the eight yard line. Nap gut Cooy gave the Connor up the middle hitto the

end zone. The NFL's leader in touchdowns just out another one and then might put away the Seahawks here in Seattle, four hundred and thirteen total yards. The Cardinals ran thirty more plays than the Seahawks, seventy nine to forty nine. They were seven to fourteen on third down, red zone, three or four time of possession forty to twenty two to nineteen thirty eight. And now Colt McCoy he has more wins in Seattle in his two starts the last two years than Russell Wilson and the Seahawks have at

home all season long. They're now one and four at home. Whereas Cole McCoy, we were wondering before the game, who's the real McCoy. Well, based on the completion percentage and the numbers and the performance, yes, you go back to the forty nine Ers win as the Cardinals get the w on the road. It is the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert yours truly, Paul Kalvisi and Ron Wolfley. Here's the one thing I want to say about this, Polly, Colt McCoy, Now you've had your

backup quarterback start how many games, Paul? Is it is at three? A relieve right, Pallly that it's three games, Paul. You've had your backup quarterback start, and then of course you've had Kyler Murray in the other games. They have the number one quarterback rating in the National Football League. Did you know that, Paul Combine combined, So the Commarinals quarterback rating is number one, number one, Polly, right now, and you've played your backup quarterback in three games. He

started those three. I mean, honestly, I think, well, listen, quarterback rating isn't the end all be all. It isn't. But I'll tell you what, Paul, year after year after year you look at the top ten quarterbacks, the usual suspects appeared. Put it that way in one of your favorite metrics. Correct me if I'm wrong, If to assess a defense, yes, is quarterback rating against defensive quarterback rating? Correct? And the Insula Cardinals are number seven in that regard, Paully.

And look, it's not like Colt McCoy went out there and it was a game manager. The dude attempted forty four passes. He was thirty five of forty four for three twenty eight two touchdowns. Noe picks that passer rating of one thirteen. Yes, So you know, yeah, and think of how different, how different a challenge it is for a defense. And from what I could tell just from the sideline, they went back to the Niners game plan, and that was, guess what, We're gonna run the ball.

We're gonna run it between the tackles. But then the ball is going to come out of Colt's hand real quick, and he's gonna get it to the perimeter, or he's gonna just hit some slants and some quick curls, but the ball is gonna come out quick. We're gonna get him into a rhythm, which is what Drew Stanton told us before the game. That's the key forerunning backup quarterback because they always have some rust on him, even though he's been playing recently. If you can get that guy

into a rhythm early, get him some of that confidence. Yeah. You know what's amazing about this too, Pauli. When you look at the resuma, Colonel's all offense and what they're doing right now, it's fascinating. Personnel is a big deal. Eleven personnel, one back, one tight end, three wide receivers. We all know about four wide receivers. That being ten personnel. Twelve personnel, of course is one back, two tight ends.

But when you start breaking down these personnel groups all the way through eleven weeks of the season right now, eleven personnel and rundown situation is the number one personnel group for the Arizona Cardinals. Not really a surprise. Eleven personnel, one back, one tight end, three wide receivers forty seven percent of the time, Polly. When they're in that forty seven percent of the time, then they've got twelve personnel, which is twenty nine percent of the time, Polly, and

rundown situation. And then ten personnel is fourteen percent of the time. I'll guarantee you that leads a National Football league fourteen percent of the time in rundown situations. But what's fascinating about it is when you go inside these personnel groups and look at the run pass ratio, it is this is not the air raid, Polly, this is

the run raid. When you look at eleven personnel, one back, one tight end, three wide, receivers and rundown situations, fifty one percent of the time they throw it, forty nine percent of the time they run it. But when you look at ten personnel, Paul, which is four wide receivers, it is truly incredible. Forty six percent pass, fifty four

percent run Wow, Paul Wow, out of ten personnel. And then you stop and you think how many times you've seen James Connor line up next to Kyler Murray or Colt McCoy and run the ball in between the tackles

out of ten personnel. It's truly amazing. You know. What makes me think of two is the last edition of Game Plan with Cliff Kingsbury, his weekly TV show, And if you want to see the clip, go to the Cardinals Twitter account last Friday night because they tweeted it out and Wolf, you asked Cliff Kingsbury about some of those run percentages, right, yeah, And his response was sort of gallows humor, you know, in his self deprecating way. He said, oh, oh, we gotta do something about that.

We got to change it because they were number four. Now this was this was before the Seattle game, that were number four PAULI in the National Football league and run rate right running at forty seven point five percent of the time. He's sandbagging though he knows what he's what. You know, it's sort of like Larry fit Sheldon golf and in his handicap it's just sandbagging down exactly whatever.

He knows what the numbers are. Okay, So if you're listening, by the way, before we hear from Cole McCoy and on the Big Red Rage here because he's on the Dave Pash podcast, and it's interesting as long as you're citing some of those numbers. Did you see some of the next Gen stats about the Cardinals offense and how in the game against Seattle to win they relied on play action thirty three percent of the dropbacks, and on those dropbacks, Cole McCoy was thirteen of fourteen for one

thirty two on a touchdown. They also relied on quick passes seventy three percent of his attempts were considered quick passes. He went twenty five to thirty two for two oh one and two touchdowns. So there's definitely big there's a

method to the madness, there's no doubt about it. Although it's different when its cult McCoy seemingly versus Kyler Murray, but as you sited, combined, the Cardinals have the number one passer raining in the NFL, and Colt McCoy was asked by Dave on the Dave Fash podcast just about when he joined the Cardinals and some of the scouting he did on the team and in particular Kyler Murray. First thing I did was just watch our games. Watch Kyler how heed like he does some things. It's like, dude,

I can't do that, Like nobody can't. I told somebody like Cliff called a quarterback draw. You know, they hadn't played a bunch of man, but they were switching things up in that last drive to go score. They showed me different looks almost every play right, and so he called in a quarterback draw and I was like, huh, so it worked right. James made a nice block. I got through the line scrimmage, and I was like, the only difference between me running I got the first down.

Kyler probably would have scored right there, Paul, that was the play I saw it is, yes, is it right there? I could not it was. I thought it was a great call. Nobody saw that coming, including Colt McCoy, and you know what, Cliff Kingsbury after the game said he'd been sitting on that that that wasn't just a spur of the moment. He had that in for the Carolina game. He didn't want to waste it in that game because it got out of hand in a hurry. And so,

you know, it's really interesting. And as Dave continued with Colt McCoy, you know, they got a little more into Kyler Murray and just the talent that Kyler isn't. And at the end of that game, down on the field, Kyler Murray was leaving and the Red Sea had taken over and they're on the front rail in Seattle and they're chanting MVP, MVP like they've done in a lot of the road games. See here's Colt McCoy's take though

on his teammate Kyler Murray. Kyler is so unique and how he sees the game like it's it's very impressive. He's very smart, he plays with feel. Some of the guys I've played with are just very routine instructure and they know the game so well. They're greatest situational football. They study it. They and Kyler is at the top of the list on a lot of those things. He sees it right. He plays with feel, He knows the coverages and structures, and he knows how Cliffs wants to

the offense to be run. So so let me get this straight. Let me translate this. You tell me where I'm going wrong here. All the athleticism, I mean, arguably, every time he takes the field, he's the best athlete on the field. Yeah, we know he has the armed talent.

He can make every single throw. So now if quote McCoy is also telling us that he can readcoveragees and we've seen that and we've heard that from the head coach, that he is much farther along and has evolved as a quarterback getting to his second, third, and sometime fourth reads his progressions. Okay, but but he also has a feel for the game and intrinsic feel for the game that isn't always natural or second nature to a lot

of different quarterbacks. Man that those four components combined makes him lethal, doesn't know. There's no dog poly I mean, it's one of the reasons why you know me, I dragged my feet in naming a franchise quarterback. They took you two and a half years. Have you Have you relented yet? I have gotten that on the record. Yes,

you know that, Paul. It was going into the Los Angeles Rams game as a matter of fact, that I was right there on the cosp and then after watching him dissect the Los Angeles Rams, it was like, you gotta be kidding me. That same weekend got rid of a he got just stop it right now. It's not a bad thing to make a human being prove you're

a franchise quarterback. It isn't. It's it's out of respect and deference for how unbelievable, unbelievably difficult it is to play quarterback in the National Football League, and to do it over time and seasons. It's not just one season that you do it. Where all that there's a franchise quarterback and then he comes back the next year and throws twenty five picks. You've got to make a guy prove it. You gotta make a guy earn it. And Kyler Murray has earned it, man, there is no doubt

about it. You could tell five six games into this season you could see the growth from a year ago and it was not even close. So look whether it doesn't matter which quarterback it is, Cliff Kingsbury has schemed it up. You know, whether it was two different runs by Cole McCoy the resulting in two first downs. Whether it's the you know, tight end shovel past to zach Ertz, which Cliff Kingsbury told us after the game that zach osam because that's the easiest touchdown catch of his career.

You know, whether it was the third and seven in the twenty yards to zach Ertz where Cole McCoy actually got away. The Cardinals have the best record in the NFL, and they just spent the month of November without their franchise quarterbacker and DeAndre Hopkins feel that, buddy, Yeah? And next up it's gonna be Chicago. Where do you get

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did recover. Chandler Jones was back there for Arizona shot Guns snap straight drop back Wilson and trouble sacked by Isaiah Simmons back at the thirty six yard line. Consecutive sacks by Jones at Simmons Jiffy Collins on the stretch to the right, track down to the backfield and taken down by Chandler Jones. Wilson back the passing trouble hit at sacks by Chandler Jones back at the thirty yard line. Jones can't be blocked. Wilson back to pass sacked though

by Marcus Golden and Chandler Jones. They meet at the quarterback back at the thirty yard line. Some about that. How about a Cardinals defense at Seattle help the Seahawks to two of ten on third down red zone The Seahawks are just one of three four sacks total two for Chandler Jones, the NFC Defensive Player of the Week. He said that he busted out his cleats from the four sack game in twenty nineteen, so it's got to

be the shoes for Chandler Jones. He loves Seattle man, he's always mugging behind the bench and playing with the fans behind the bench who were unloading, and they were pretty much silenced by the end of the game, which he loves doing. As the Cardinals get the victory and go to nine and two. Here on a bye week edition of The Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert and Polly, I'm so glad you mentioned that right there, because honestly, the defense came out and they

set the tone in Seattle, if you ask me, they did. Yeah, they gave up four plays, They gave up a first down run on the very first play, and they moved the chains. But man, they had two sacks of Russell Wilson in four plays. Ron two sacks that forced the Seahawks to punt. Of course, then the Arizona Cardinals took the ball, and what happened, Paully, Oh my goodness. I mean, I don't know if I've ever seen such a quick turnaround over the course of the first four plays of

a game. Yes, I mean the first play was an eighteen yard run by Rashad Penny, which I think was his last carrier of the game because he ended up in the medical tent again. Yeah, and then the next play got him to midfield then, and honestly, I mean, come on, now, the Boxers were starting to bunge a little bit because the Cardinals have been ripped before on run defense. And then all of a sudden, Marcus Golden and Chandler Jones they take over and down goes Russell Wilson.

And you're right, they were never the same after that. And then once the Cardinals got the lead, guess what, Pennie years back and go after russ Well, you think about it, Pallie. Once again, just the fact they started like that defensively, and then the offense took the ball sixteen play drive eighty two yards for a touchdown that took nine minutes in twenty seven seconds off the clock. Paul, I mean that that just doesn't happen in the National

Football League, not very often. And yeah, that is how the Arizona Cardinals started that game, and that's the reason why, in my opinion, they finished it too. And then later in the first half there was a thirteen play ninety two yard drive six and a half minutes, and then obviously the game clinching drive, the one where late third

quarter at Cliff Kingsbury went to the offense. And there's a great story from Darren urban Nacy Cardinals dot com right now, a profile on Cliff Kingsbury, and that was his lead about what Cliff Kingsbury did. And I witnessed it late third quarter. He heard me relay it on the broadcast where he got the entire offense together. He rarely,

if ever does that. He was very adamant. He was barking at the guys and we asked him about that after the game in Cliff Kingsbury's message was, you know what, guys were sitting around waiting for the game to end. I wanted them to go out and finish it. Yeah, and that's what they did. Ten play sixty seven yards that game, clutching touchdown twenty three thirteen. And they responded to the head coach. They've been responded to Cliff Kingsbury all year. He's had that extra edge on the sideline.

And and you know, Wolf we Ven at Chase Edmonds on the Big Red Rage tell us how much the guys are feet off their head coach. Right now, there's no doubt Paulie Cliff Kingsbury right now, it's got to be the front runner for Coach of the Year has got to be and you know what, We're going to get to that in a moment. First, how about Buddha Baker, because you mentioned how they went after Russell Wilson well

green Bay the week before. If you looked at the numbers and the percentages, they really rushed three or four most of the time. They really picked their spots as the Winda Blitz Russell Wilson Green Bay, and they shut out Russell Wilson for the first time in his career. So here's Buddha Baker on the philosophy. If you get him on the second and long, we know that they're going to pass, and you get him the third down, that's when we can do our exotic pressures and you know,

have a little fun. So we focus on taking the one play at a time. Once we get to third down, those kind of party time in a sense. So those guys did a great job. Our d line did a great job. Chan Marcus, you know, got their sex and wolf. It just comes back to what they always say, and it's not a cliche. Win first down, if you can make it second and loong, third and long, then look out. That's when the eyes light up with those eyes in the front seven. Oh my goodness. They played so well

the defense, it was truly incredible. Sixteen first downs for the Seattle Seahawns, two hundred and sixty six yards overall. Paul, they only ran forty nine plays forty nine plays Palie, there were one of three in the red zone. Not good scored thirteen points. It was Listen, this was a huge performance by Vance Joseph and this defense. No doubt. Once again, Cardinals are now four and o in the division. They're six and o on the road, every single win

by double digits, nine and two. They're a top the NFL standings, they're a top the Power rankings once again. And Cliff Kingsbury was aspired Darren Urban this week about you know, whether he gets satisfaction on proving a lot of the doubters wrong. The only thing, you know, I like his family members, people that believed in me forever of them to actually not. You know, hear me called a dumbass all the time. So that's kind of the biggest that if I take away from all of it,

I love that man. That is so human, it's so real it is. And you know what he led everyone in to I think a very real emotion, did he not? Yes, because and you know him, Hey, look he'll deal with anything and everything, but when it boils back on your family and your friends, you know, that's where these guys do it for a living. And they're highly paid, and they're highly paid to have a thick skin. Yeah, that's

what happens. You know, That's why Pete Carroll leaving his press conference when Pete Carroll's making eight figures a year, and and and you know, and they've they've had winning seasons every single year. The Russell Wilson has been the quarterback. And then they hit a little adversity and he pulls

the plug and he leaves the press conference. You know how many tough losses as Cliff Kingsbury had from the first year to the flame out the second half of last year, right, and as he's always met the media and answered every single question. And I love what he did up in Seattle once again. Um, Cliff Kingsbury, He's always been smart and humble. We've talked about this all the time, PAULI. He's he's very smart and he's very humble. He cites other teams, whether it's college or professional, where

he's ripping plays off them. He cites that. I'm just telling you right now, you don't get a lot of head coaches that are quote unquote football geniuses that will cite where they're ripping these plays off. I mean, you just don't get it, especially when he's essentially in a contract year, exactly right, when he's in a proven year, when you come into this season, and once again we get to the genesis of that question from Darren Urban.

I mean, the national narrative was that Cliff Kingsbury is coaching for his job if the Arizona Cardinals don't end the playoff droughte that goes back to twenty fifteen. Guess what, Michael Bidwell, Mike Cleanhouse, of all the decision makers. Yes, but here's what I love right here. Not only is

Cliff Kingsbury really really smart. Not only is he humble and has a monicum of humility that keeps him grounded and allows him to judge himself off and look at himself without bursting into a million pieces and being his own harshest critic he is. But what I love about Cliff Kingsbury in year three is what we're seeing from him from an intensity perspective. And Paul, yes, you know

this because you've seen it. You've been down on the sideline where players are responding Cliff Kingsbury and he's got a little something something dripping down the side of his neck. This year, it's called intensity and I love it. First half of the game of Tennessee, I actually took two steps back. I mean the intensity from Cliff Kingsbury. I'm like, wow, WHOA Okay, So now the question becomes, all right, where is this all going? By the end of the year,

could he be the coach of the year? And that was a question from day Pass on the Day Pash podcast Adam Shine. He's a serious XM radio and CBS Sports Network host Adam Shine on Cliff Kingsbury. I think Cliff Kingsbury is an absolute stud. Last year was a disappointment, I thought for Arizona down the stretch of the season, boy Dave. This year has been fantastic And in terms of where I put him to Coach of the Year now top two. I mean it's Cliff Kingsbury and Bill

Belichick whatever order for coach of the year. How delicious. Is that dynamic that his former head coach, his first head coach in the NFL when he was the third or maybe four string quarterback under Bill Belichick. Now fast forward twenty years and he's buying with Coach Belichick to be the twenty twenty one NFL Coach of the Year. That's just I just love the way that works out. Yeah, No, I love that right there, because of course, we all

know what the narrative was. We all know why. There's been a lot of analysts across the country that have been dragging their feet on Cliff Kingsbury, and I think on fairly so, and it's all because of how he got the job, right, Paul, Nobody, you know exactly what I'm talking about, the fact that he was fired from

a college program he never made. It wasn't a quote unque successful college head coach, and all of a sudden he's the offensive coordinator for us, and then you hire him from there when he hasn't even done anything over there as an offensive coordinator, And how could you possibly do that? There was that was the narrative surrounding Cliff Kingsbury. And to his credit, and I respect him greatly for this.

He has fought through all of that. He's fought through all of that, and it had to bother him some of the things that analysts were saying on a national radio show or a national television show. It had to bother him when he heard some of the things that was being said about him out there, how he didn't deserve it. And then to watch him right now, through eleven weeks of the season become the clear front runner for Coach of the Year going into the twelfth week

of the season. Man, I'm happy for him. And oh, by the way, Texas Tech has already fired the head coach they hired to replace, Cliff Kingsbury. Think about that thing. Oh maybe it wasn't an indication of his coaching acumen and ability. Maybe it just reveals how difficult it is

directcruit to Lubbock, Texas. Maybe, just maybe. By the way, episode seventeen of The Day Pash Podcast featuring series XM Radio and CBS Sports Network host Adam Shine, who we just heard from, available now wherever you get your podcast. For the latest updates on the Day Pash Podcast, following on Twitter at pashpod. And by the way, the national guys are still up to it. The ap pole. The power rankings have the Cardinals number one. They got eleven

out of twelve votes. That other first place vote. What did Tennessee this week? A Tennessee team that lost to Houston Wolf, A Tennessee team that was jack stump by the years on the Cardinals with Derrick Henry in week one, and this guy still puts Tennessee ahead of the Cardinals. We wrap up the Big Red Rage right after this. This is a whole new team, this is a whole new year. You guys are going to get the best of us. It's a long season, figure shot. It's the journey.

Positive energy is infectious. It's infectious, and it's going to permeate throughout the building and then permeate throughout the valley. When your expectation is that high and you don't play as well as you plan too on Sunday, it hurts. You have to be able to embrace the pressure and respond. There's no chance. Who aren't winning that game? I feel like I just lean by example. Honor obviously ain't such a different element, meaning the guys being with the guys

and next seeded. In my expectations, we were ready to hit somebody before the game started. There's no disrespect to us, the team, just who we are. Maybe we'll just get better tick talk. Cardinals flight Plan Ready to Rise premieres tonight at seven, top of the hour Cardinals YouTube channel. That's YouTube dot com slash a Z Cardinals. You want all access Emmy Award winning coverage of your Arizona Cardinals.

You got to check out the latest Cardinals Flight Plan and once again we'll drop in a matter of moments. And we're talking on and off the field. We're talking in the locker room, riding into work, anything and everything. So Wolf, here we are. It's was the night before Thanksgiving. There may or may not be you're truly going Polly palle with the latest edition of Cardinals Flight Plan Ready to Rise at about a half hour or so. Yeah, Polly, no doubt about it. So where do you want to

go in this beautiful part of the program. Now, what do you want to talk about? Not your pal album? No, and we're done with the Seahawks, you know, as speaking of TV and so forth. I feel bad for America. Actually, the next Monday night football game features the Seahawks, So you know, America doesn't need that we're still trying to come out of these tumultuous times. Nobody needs more Seahawks football on primetime with satle I like, we're done with

Seattle even though we play. I'm at end of the season, of course, Ball attention, Seattle. You're the only team okay, you're one game above or you're the next worst team besides the Lions. Think about that in the NFC. You're fifteenth in the NFC. Sixteenth would be the Lions. We all get to see tomorrow playing the Cardinals, next opponent of the Bears. But why do you think that the Cardinals maybe have not generated as much national attention and

headlines as perhaps they might be worthy? Because I hashed this out on Channel twelve earlier today with cam Cox, and here was my theory. Walf You can tell me if I'm wrong, and I know you will. Okay, So you were asking me, right, you really didn't want my answer? Ball? Is that what you're saying? You were asking me rhetorically. I've learned I'd better give my answer real quick because your answer is going to take the rest of the show. Okay, here,

what did you say? The camera docks Paul? Well, I think part of it is because the Cardinals have only had one primetime game and they lost that game at the very end of Green Bay, and so America, especially the East Coast, hasn't really seen the Cardinals, and so they have these notions of the Cardinals and what they think the Cardinals are all about, and maybe some of those were reinforced in that to Green Bay, but they haven't certainly seen any of the rest of the season

in mass Hence, I think there's almost like a delayed reaction to just how polton the Cardinals have been this year. That's a real possibility, There's no doubt about it. Once again, I think the Arizona Cardinals have to continue to keep their head down. I love what I'm hearing coming out of the locker room, Paul. I love what I'm hearing from their best players, and they really do got to model the culture and model how they feel and the chemistry inside that locker room for everybody else. I love

what I'm hearing. They're keeping their head down, in their eyes on the task. Just keep your head down and continue to ball out in play as hard as you possibly can. The one in oh Mantra is what I love. The one to oh, it's not just lip service. They believe it once again. Adam Shine is the guest on the Daypash podcast this week. Colt McCoy is next week, by the way. Just to clarify there, And here's Adam Scheine when Dave asked him about the Cardinals standing in

the NFC. I think the Cardinals they're a team on a short list of teams, by the way, and it's wild and wacky NFL season, I trust. I love the head coach, I love the defensive coordinator. I love the talent. I love how they take care of business. I love how they can play up to the competition. I love everything about them. I think Arizona, when Kyler's healthy, is

the most well rounded team in the NFC. And I think that's key that last part there, because Wolf they're the only team in the NFL still top five in scoring offense in scoring defense. Buffalo was there quite a bit, but now they've faltered. Who knows what's going on with Buffalo right now? And when you look at the rest of the NFC. We've talked about this too. If you're looking for the element that separates the Cardinals from the competition, the NFC. The elite of the NFC doesn't not have

to be on the defensive side of the ball. Polly. It's something I've been saying all year, or I will not all year. I shouldn't say that, something I've been saying for the last four or five weeks about this team. We all know their offense is super Bowl caliber, right, Polly. I mean you look at him and you say, oh, my goodness, there's Kyler Murray. What a super Bowl talent he is. Oh there's DeAndre Hopkins, what a super Bowl Yeah, I mean you look at their talent. Zach Ertz, zach Ertz.

You're having a hard time getting zach Ertz the ball and real quick. You could say the same thing about the Packers with Aaron Rodgers and his receivers and those two running backs. You could say the same about Tom Braiding his receivers. You could say the same about Dak Prescott and his receivers, and yes, the Rams as well, even minus Robert Woods. Yes, Polly, but again, my whole point has been, not only do they have super Bowl caliber offense, but what makes them a super Bowl contender

to me is their defense. Ding their defense, Polly's it truly is incredible to see what Vance Joseph has done with this. They have an elite scoring defense. They are bawling out and you look at the offense as well, the elite scoring offensive Arizona Cardinals have. They're the best team in the league. If you look at this weekend schedule, the Rams go to Green Bay, which, by the way, is our new hashtag. As you know, no Lambo, that's

our mantra for the rest of the year. Nobody and I mean nobody, especially the Sun No Lambo is our hashtag between now and the end of the year. Nobody wants to go there. So, you know what, in a weird way, I guess I am pulling for the Rams. You know, Aaron Rodgers dealing with a toe and all that. But think about so you have that game going on and then and then you have a Cardinals Cowboys game and the second to last week of the season. That's intriguing.

But if you look at the schedules and what's left for the Rams, Packers, Bucks and Cowboys or Jim Amajundro went through it, and you have to look at the Rams and some of the games they have left at Minnesota, at Baltimore. They play the Niners again. They've lost five in a row to the Niners, and they have the Green Bay Packers this Sunday at Lambo. Oh boy out on that one. Good. Yeah, it'll be speech. And then

suddenly you're in the m bow. Wolf, who do you fear the most out of those four NFC contenders, Because forget the home field advantage. I still fear Aaron Rodgers, those top three receivers, and those two running backs the most, especially since they seem to have figured out their defense. It's much better than it was in September. I'm with you on that Ballie, you really am, because once again you're talking about one of the most legendary quarterbacks in

the National Football League. Um, Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. That is a concern. Yeah hey yeah. Single game tickets on sale now visit AC Cardinals dot com Slash game ticks. That's Acy Cardinals dot Com Slash Game t i X. All right, Look, it's one of the big party nights of the year. So Wolf, you know, we'll let you go. You know, if you're gonna gobble until your wobble, okay, then you gotta be smart. Out there,

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