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you know what, you're still sick. You're sick right now, the three game losing streak, and you're sick of reading the headlines surging Cowboys against the sliding Cardinals or the skyrocketing Dallas Cowboys against skidding Arizona. We get all that, Okay, Yes, it is the Big Red Rage with Dennis Gardeck. By the way, who's going to join us in a matter of moments, all presented by Santan four and Gilbert. We are Santan Forward, Paul kelbc Ron Wolflee, and we do

have headlines plenty going on this holiday week. Wolf what do you want to talk about first? Polly? That is a question that I will ask you on this holiday season. Well, Happy to year ball. The headline of the day obviously is going to be let's see if we're scoring at home. It was eight different old line combinations going into the Colts game, which made it nine, which now means you're going to end up with the tenth different old line combinations Sunday in Dallas because d J. Humphreys has been

added to the COVID list. Yeah, that is really interesting, a great place to start, because that, to me is a huge question mark going forward the Arizona Cardinals. I think, Polly, They've got to get back to running the football and being a lot more balanced offensively. This is really what I'm going to be looking for in this Dallas Cowboys game, and doing it out of different personnel groups and doing it out of different positions. For Kyler Murray, well, he's

under a center. Whether you put him in the gun, you put him in the pistol, whatever, it may be a lot more combinations. I think we're going to see a little bit more balance with the Arizona Cardinals going forward. But man, if you're going to bring balance, that means your offensive line is going to have to be big contributors in that. Yeah. DJ Humphreys was your rock at

left tackle. Not only had he played every meaningful snap this year, but he's going to have a streak of forty seven straight games played ended on Sunday because he got added to the COVID list, And just when you got Rodney Hudson back at least you think he's tracking to be back so and that COVID list also includes Marcus Golden, who might be back on game day. We'll see. Devon Kannard has been added to that list, Sean Harlow,

the new corners on the practice squad, Brion Borders. But every single day, and we talked to Cliff Kingsbury about this on his weekly TV show. If you're the head coach you have, you're just waiting for an email or a text and you're wondering, Okay, who is next? And so it's a miserable place right now. Obviously for a lot of coaches and a lot of teams. The Cardinals

are far from the only team. In fact, they're probably one of the less impacted teams we have seen in The Colts, by the way, just came in and pulled it off, did they not, Wolf minus eight different starters and over a dozen significant players, and then they lost more during the course of the game, no doubt, Pauli. Once again, the Colts, listen, they You've got to give them an awful lot of credit for what they did. That is a tough, tough football team right there. To

go out and play the way they did. You're talking about having four of their starting offensive linemen. They actually went into the game with three of their interior starters, and I mean two of them being Pro Bowlers, really good players at the center position, of course, and at the left guard position. You have the best blocking left guard on the face of the planet and Quenton Nelson, and they go down in this game, and then of

course you lose your tackle. They were playing with four starters out of the game the vast majority of that game, and you give them a lot of credit. And it's what I think we need to see the Arizona Cardinals doing. I think the Cardinal players have been talking about that very thing as well. Paul. I'm glad they're playing a team like the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys have won four games in a row. Now, we could sit there and we could talk about the fact they beat in New

Orleans Saints and they beat Washington exactly, Paul. But still they are playing better football. I think overall, from the beginning of the season. I think in all three phases, there's no doubt about it. The Dallas Cowboys are playing better football. And I'm glad this good is this is exactly what I think the Cardinals need a challenge something to say, Okay, wake up and hopefully this will be

the wake up game. Well, they've lost three in a row, the Ears in a Cardinals, five of their last eight, and Cliff Kingsbury on where it all starts the turnaround obviously haven't played as well as we were liked, and we just talked about being able to treat each practice rep lay a game rep. You know, don't let things slide, don't say hey, coach, I would have got it right on Sunday. We're way too far into this deal to be falling back in any habits like that. And so

that's what we got to do. It starts on the practice fields and it's got to be able to carry over the game day. And we got a lot of work to do this week. Yeah, no doubt. I mean there's been some poignant comments this week, Kelvin Beecham telling the media we got to find a way to win situational football, which is kind of beating us down right now. That's Kelvin Beacham, one of the unquestioned team leaders. There was Cliff Kingsbury in the press conference saying we got

to start treating practice like a game. So the games don't feel sped up to us, and he hinted a practice again right there will So you know, they got to figure out a way to amp things up, whether it's the urgency, whether it's the attention to detail, eleven penalty. He's against the Colts obviously, So you know, you can look at the film, and obviously there's a lot of critics out there right now to which Kyler Murray had something to say. Check this out what Kyler told the

media yesterday. There's tons of people out there that don't have a clue what they're talking about. I mean, when you win, you know, all that stuff gets swept under the rug. So like I said last year, I mean we were winning, and you know we were still doing some of those same things. You gotta do the little things, right, I mean, no matter what you're doing in life. I mean, people don't have a clue. But you know, if you watch the film, you know what you're looking at. It's

not far off. We're not far off, right, So Wolf, you do watch the film, you do know what you're looking at. What do you think about that comment? Yeah, listen, I think you don't want to panic that much. I do know, and you always have to remember this right here, PAULI and I remember this distinctly. Being a player, I have a player's mentality. It's never gonna leave me. I don't care how fat, how old I get, Paul, It's not going to leave me. That player mentality and the

player mentality is. I got this. That is what you hope the player's mentality is. And guess what. The player always feels the best about any type of situation, any adversity that he faces, because he faces a lot of adversity on Sunday. It's a normal thing to go out in competition and compete, Paul, and face adversity on Sunday because you can do something about it. For all of us that are sitting here analyzing all of it, I

don't know, Polly. You know, I know you're a sideline reporter and you don't splatter easily though I know that ball. But you know what, there might be a little panic coming from the CALVC compound. Might be a little bit of it. And for me as an analyst, even I'm looking at it going okay, boys, I guess we're played for keeps it. You know it's time to go, It's time to ball. Right now everybody. Can you imagine fans they're feeling the same way. Here we go, we've lost

three in a row. To wake up, guys, let's start playing like we did in the first half of the season. And yet as a player, you're like, hey, hey, we got this settled down. Now you got to go prove it, Paul. Yeah, and look, there's been a lot of honesty. I mean, guys have been pretty forthright. When we're talking to Cliff Kingsbury after the game and he says, you know what,

we continue to find ways to lose games. When he says later, mistakes are showing up that didn't we didn't see earlier in the season, Kyler after the game calling a quote bad football. We're pretty much killing ourselves. I mean, they know what's wrong. Yeah, what is your confidence level they can correct it? Yeah? No, My confidence level is they can correct it because of the talent that they have, Paul. They have the talent still. I know they're missing DeAndre Hopkins.

I know they're missing JJ Watt. I know they've been missing Rodney Hudson. I know they've been missing James Connor. Paul, these are big misses too, And you've got to understand when I see this, this is an intangible problem because the talent is there, the tangible is there. For the Arizona Cardinals, I think this is more in the ether. I could be dead wrong on this, Paul. This is just me being around the game for as long as I have looking in from the outside. I think it's

inside the locker room, the intangibles. I think they're missing a lot of the leadership. And the reason being, Paul is listen, you can't lead if you're not playing. You can't, Paul, I'm sorry. You can sit there and raw root. You can cheer lead if you want to do that, but

you can't lead because you're not doing. First, you've got to do and then say and right now, they've they've got guys that are key guys that can't do, like Rodney Hudson, James Connor, DeAndre Hopkins, j J. Watt yep, and you know what, well, those aren't just pro bowlers some of them. Yeah, but in a lot of ways, it's the Cardinal's identity. It's the Cardinals DNA, especially an offense.

To me, when you're missing DeAndre Hopkins, you haven't really effectively adjusted to not having that last eight games you're averaging twenty one points per game, whereas your first seven games it was thirty two points per game. So we'll talk to Dennis Gardeck when we come back. By the way, the Dave Pash Podcast, episode number twenty two available now featuring legendary Sun's announcer Al McCoy. Wherever you get your podcast. The Big Red Rage with Dennis Gardeck all presented by

Santan Ford. In Gilbert shotgun Snap hurts a short set, steps up, being chased far side by Guardeck sacks up at the forty one yard line. Dennis Gardeck has become the sack machine. Shotgun Snap hurts with a short set in trouble, steps up, gets hit and sacked. Dennis Gardeck was there first. Somebody hit the stroll baby guard Deckie Doddackie god gig. That's Kyla Murray miked up last season and is a little shout out his salute to our special guest tonight on The Big Red Rage, presented by

santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford. Well if I have come to learn as your pencil next sideline guy. Yeah, went out on that field. There's an extreme amount of chaos, right, and they're peeling guys off, and there's dudes pinballing around and especially on special teams right, and a play registers on the Richter scale, you know, the epicenter is usually number forty five. Our guest Dennis Gardeck, would you agree with that? Rounbul? There's no doubt about it. The barbarian Paul?

What is good? Guard Deck? Dennis? How you doing? Thanks for joining us? Are we doing a Paul? How are you? What's going on? Dennis? How are you? Buddy? I'm doing excellent. How are you guys doing? And really appreciate you joining us right now? Let's just get right into it, shall we? How are you doing? How are you doing physically right now? Holding up at this point of the season. I'm doing great. You know. I was out those first couple of weeks with the hand injury. I knee was good to go.

It was the hand injury kind of gave me some more time to really share some things up. And then the next couple of weeks was kind of just getting back into that rhythm that I missed out with no training camp. But I feel great and I feel like I kind of have that competitive edge of not having those first couple games to grind through. When you say you feel great, I mean, be honest, be honest, where

are you with the knee? Because for everything you did last year and those two sacks we just heard against the Eagles and it was a remarkable run when you were inserted on defense last year. The downer was that it ended with a season ending knee injury, and it was late in the season, obviously in December, so I think a lot of people wondered, Okay, what's realistic. What have you found in your recovery with the knee. Well,

I was. I was really honest with the whole process and you know, um just understanding the injury and kind of the timing, and it was kind of hard, and letting myself kind of feel that, I think really helped me in my recovery process of being able, you know, to be a little bit angry about it. I knew I had given everything that I had, so I was.

I was content with that season, but letting myself be a little angry, I think helped me attack my rehab a little bit more, a little harder, and everything went great as far as as training went with our training staff. They did a great job and kind of keeping me out of my own way and freaking out or doing anything crazy. And I feel like everything happened I was supposed to do. The hand was a bummer, um, but I think everything happened exactly how it was supposed to. So, Dennis,

how what does that see mean to you? That means everything to be able to have that see on your chest. It means that the guys in the locker room see you as a leader. Um. That's not something that's voted on by you guys as media or as coaches or anything. That's that's strictly the guys in the locker room and everything that has to do with that fraternity of men carries a lot of weight. Yeah, for those who aren't

familiar Dennis Gardeck as our guest. He signed by the Cardinals in twenty eighteen as an undrafted rookie free agent

out of Sioux Falls. He was named a Pro Bowl alternate in his second year on special teams in two nineteen, then Wolf your Reference last year named a team captain for the first time, and in just ninety three defensive snaps, Dennis had seven sacks, seven tackles for loss, ten quarter pack hits and and so that is that it was just such a stunning, stunning perform when you got snaps.

And now we're tracking towards Sunday, Dennis, and we mentioned off the top of the show when you're looking at the COVID list and you see Marcus Golden and you say see Devon Kennard, right, and both Vans Joseph and Cliff Kingsbury has said it this week. Yes, we're gonna be calling Dennis gardex name. I mean, just tell us about your anticipation for Sunday. Um. Yeah, for me, it really doesn't change everything. Um, everything I've been practicing, I'm working on is still there now. I just I give

more of a chance to showcase it. So, um, it's it's not oh now this situation arises itself and I need to prepare for it. It's it's been a process throughout the entire season, and now the opportunity presents itself. Are you going to hit the what is it the strobe? Dennis? Is that what you do? There? Is it the strobe? Which one was it? Now? Turning the KNA was the first one that one got vetted out pretty soon. It was not at pe put me into that one pretty early,

but he did appreciate the hidden the strobe. Um, we'll see what happens. I call it blacking out on the field and the strobe is what kind of stuck. But we'll see what happens. Well, here's what your defensive coordinator had to say today when your name came up during advance Joseph press conference. I think he's close to having a big game, you know. I mean, this guy, if he gets multiple opportunities, he will make some plays. So again, I mean he's he's one of the young guys I'm

excited to watch on Sunday with more opportunity. You know, he wants a chance to prove again, you know, his his work to our football team true or false? Is that is that? Does that capsualize your mindset right now? What your coordinator just said, absolutely, I think you're proving You're proving your worth week in and week out. And just the faith he has in me again, along with the preparation that I've put in is kind of what

gives me my edge on the field. Is that kind of gives me my teeth and I'm ready to go in part to his confidence in me to put me out there, and confidence in my preparation as well as film study and all of that. Dennis, let's talk about real football, shall we? Special teams? We all know if you can play special teams right now, honestly, you could

play any position in the National Football League. Now, that doesn't mean you're going to be talented in terms of catching the football or throwing the football or running the football. It doesn't. It just means you're probably going to be really talented and very comfortable and knocking somebody's face off, correct, Dennis, I mean that's that's what special teams is all about. Talk to me about your special teams this year and

how you feel it's going for the team. We got a veteran group that's kind of been banged up here and there. We're playing with a bunch of different pieces kind of throughout the season. I think we kind of caught our stride in terms of who we're playing with. We got some big guys coming back. We got Tanner and Yeke have both been activated their windows. It's an exciting time for special teams. So I'm really excited. Tell us about and Denis car deck is our guests. Tell

us about the crazy punt return against the Colts. There, I was filling in for Dave pass right, Pauli pinchitter, and then all of a sudden, you guys bust out that punt return and I'm calling Christian Kirk return and when all of a sudden it's Byron Murphy. And I felt a little better later when I saw the highlight and even the TV cameraman for Fox followed the wrong guy. But tell us about that boy, because man, that hit and you had Byron Murphy bring it all the way

out to midfield. Yeah, that will. First of all, that's a tremendous effort by Byron to be able to run all the way back. I think he ran forty something yards back to catch the ball over his shoulder and then now he's got a run for the return and

he got it back another forty plus yards. UM. So that's just a tremendous effort by Byron um And and our special teams coordinator Rogers has has a great phrase, it don't do the same thing every time, And they were kind of known for in the UM the plus DI the area, they'll always be kicking it that way, um, and we saw an opportunity and we've practiced it and that it was a success. Dennis. That goes right into your stance, right even your very stance, and how you

stand like a personal protector. When Jeff Rogers says, don't don't do something the same way every time, that means right down to the individual on the field, correct exactly any any tendencies he's going to snip out. He's great at coming up with great game plans based on what he's seeing on the cap. I love that because, honestly, man, when he told me it didn't dawn on me. But what when he said it was so obvious to me. He said, look at the personal protector. How much of

the time do you see the print? And it's so true because that's what I did. I was a personal protector calling out fran said you know this, here's how we're going to block this thing. And then all of a sudden when I get said, here comes the ball. It's a great timing device for a lot of teams that are trying to block a punt as well. I love the fact that he has our personal protector stands straight up and down and he does not move that to me, that's a little thing, Dennis. But that's who

Jeff Rogers is, right. Absolutely, you got everything coached down to the detail. Yeah. So do you think the Dallas tackles are watching your film from last year, Dennis? Because there can't be a lot to go on necessarily this year, right and for you to come in last year and

I'm looking at it right now. You came in because I remember vividly that empty MetLife Stadium and you came in and Chandler Jones at this season ending injury, and you came in and you had two sacks, and then at the Giants you had two more sacks and just eight snaps, and then you had two more snacks against sacks against Billy And I'm just curious, um, is you know, do you do it a little bit differently than a lot of pass rushers to what you guys are just

talking about, and how much has that served you in your ability to get to the quarterback when you're out there? Do what differently than just you're you know, maybe do you have a little bit more of an unorthodox type style that you know, you're you're obviously a different body type than a Chandler Jones or Marcus Golden. Is it just sort of that change up, and do you think Dallas tackles or maybe going back and looking at some of your film from last year. Yeah, I'm not underestimating

the Dallas tackles at all. I'm sure they're going back and looking at everything they can to be prepared. NFL football players are not going to step out of the field feeling unprepared, so I'm sure they're looking at it. I'm sure they know exactly how they're going to set me um, they know how to stop me, and then I'm gonna go out there and make him question it. Love that man got to have that kind of mentality.

That mentality, too, is something that I want to talk to you about specifically when we come back in the next beautiful part of the program. The mentality not only your mentality, because I think it's a special mentality, but the collective that is going on in that locker room right now. I want to talk to you a little bit more in depth about that when we come back to us. Yeah, we'll go to sense as to the pulse and vibe of this Cardinals team right now going

into this game. What it's been like this week. What the locker room is like, where the confidence level is right now? And if you caught it on YouTube in the Cardinal's website, his video series How I Got Here? I mean, Dennis is a natural on camera. I think he has a post playing career. We're going to talk about that. It is the Big Red Rage with Dennis gardeck All presented by santan Ford and Gilbert We are

santan Ford Cardinals show flits off the edge. Here comes Pooter racing and trying to corral Carcel West from behind and tracks them and backs them. Hag ties him from behind. Down goes Wentz and the Cardinals hold on. Third down. How about bad fasts Joseph flashing a little cover zero zero bring everybody hunts over the wall. Kyler is looking left, hats it, throws it towards the far sideline and there's the touchdown Antslan Wesley the big target on the far sideline,

and that fast was right on the money. Kyler drops it in the bucket for six oh. That is big time right there by Kyler Murray. And that was what the Cardinals were doing earlier this year when they started seven to zero ten and two. Complimentary football, right Wolf,

the offense and defense feeding off each other. Big play by the d the offense cashes it in, and so that is what the Cardinals are open to bring some more of, starting this Sunday in Dallas after the Christmas Night loss BA Humbug to the Colts twenty two sixteen. Dennis Gardeck is our guest, and Dennis earlier today, zach Ertz told the media, and I'm quoting loosely, we're still the same team we were when everybody was saying we were the best team in the NFL. We got to

play with the same confidence and swagger. Do you agree with that? And how far would that go and how close do you think the Cardinals are to recapturing that? Yeah, I agree with zach Um. There's no panic in this football team, and I think that comes from the amount of trust we have in each other as players, as well as the coaching staff in getting us prepared and creating game plans for us to win. So I think

that's going to be incredible to our future success. So, Dennis, it's so odd because you look at it, of course, and the numbers seven and zero. First of all, seven and oz is how you how you started the season ten and two after twelve weeks of the season. That number, to me, Dennis, is even more impressive than the seven and oz And it's only because twelve weeks of football, we knew you weren't gonna go undefeated. Everybody knew the

Arizona Cardinals weren't going to go undefeated. For the most part. Seven and oh, that's a great start, there's no doubt about it. But we knew adversity was coming at some point in time, just the way everyone faces adversity across the league. The ten and two number, to me was the That was the eye opener. You don't get to ten and two, especially because you played three games without your franchise quarterback and without DeAndre Hopkins, and you won two of them. And there you are at ten and

two season. That was the most impressive number to me. Now you're ten and five. How do you get back to winning? That is the question that everybody is asking. What do you think this team has got to do to start winning? I think we continue to fight, continue to put in the work that we have been doing, and on Sunday, when we do it right, the Chips will fall or they will and eventually we will catch that stride and we will continue to win again and

that will carry us on. It feels good to do it because you know, as a player you have control, right, I mean, this is the great thing about it. As a player, you know there's something, Dennis, you can do about it. There's something you have control over the situation. Now, you can't make your teammate go out and play great, but you can go out and play great. It's one of the it's one of the great gifts I think of playing in the National Football League is having that

kind of confidence and walking out in between the white lines. Dennis, do you still think there was confidence in your teammates inside that locker room? Absolutely? And that's where that no panic mentality comes from. I think you're hitting on a point, but I want to drive it home a little bit more. Is you can do what's in your control. The no panic side of thing is controlling what we can control. I'm going to make my plays, I'm going to do my job and trusting that all eleven people on the

field are doing That's that's where the success comes from. Yes, Cardinals linebacker Dennis cardk Is our guest. All right, So Dallas in the last game car rushed Washington fifty six to fourteen. I know you've seen the numbers. They're in the number one scoring offense in the league, Umber one in total offense, which is yards per game. You tell us what stands out the most from watching the game film? They got great receivers. Um, an incredible tale on that quarterback. Um,

you know, big strong, physical offensive line. We got to work cut out for us. Um. I trust Dances the game plan, and we're gonna go out there and um put up a fight. Dennis, Yeah, go ahead on Vance's game plan. How tough is it when you have so many different parts, especially the secondary. Right, you're missing two of your top three corners, and now there are different parts in the front seven. And Zaban might even be playing out of position, right, I mean he might be

on the outside and be in that rotation. Um, how much of a challenge is just communication? Because I hear guys talk about that, and you know how key that is when offenses are trying to exploit you, you know, and and change plays and and so forth. I mean, you guys all have to be playing the same defense at the same time does that get to be a challenge.

But there's a lot of moving parts. Well, I think it starts with the coaching, and we're coached that everyone is a starter, and the standard is the standard, UM, and that that starts with the headman on down UM. So so yes, obviously there's gonna be UM some things that we're working through, but the standard is the standard and UM the final product out there. UM is an NFL football team playing an NFL football team, Dennis. When you look at the Dallas Cowboys offense on tape, do

you see similarities between the Cowboys offense and our offense? Oh? There. It is a copycat league. There's there's going to be things that every every team is exploiting and doing in different areas. But they do have some nuance, UM and just just understanding not only how they play, but how they're going to attack us, what they've seen on film and being able to be prepared for kind of how their game planning us is really what's going on throughout

the week. Here's your defensive coordinator, advanced Joseph today to the media. Little scattering report on Dak Prescott dagged us so much at the line of scrimmage. I mean he is. He's doing a great job of putting his team into the best place. So you have to have a great scheme to disguise coverages and disguise looks to make the down fair for you. You know, if you don't, he will put his team in the best play possible, and that's the first second and they're down, and especially in

the red zone. The more I listen to your defensive coordinator advance, the more I come to realize it's really a complex scheme you guys are running, isn't it. I mean, you have pre snap looks and you snapped to something else after the ball is in play, And I mean it's probably a lot more complex than we realize what you guys are running out there. Yeah, but it's also very simple at the At the same time, BJ has a a phrase, I like the teason all about but

easy for us, hard for them. And it's a way of simplifying our calls and making it very simple for us, and then while they're kind of having to go through a bunch of gymnastics and figure all that stuff out. You know, one of the things I think you guys were doing earlier in the season, Dennis Is, I think your defense was really feeding off your offense, and your

offense was feeding your defense. And I say that because earlier in the season, the Arizona Cardinal's offense, whether they're running it or throwing the ball, they were scoring points, scoring a lot of points and getting up on teams. And now suddenly teams were one dimensional against you guys. And I think this is just my observation watching you play. I think this defense's strength is against the pass in order to get to the quarterback, getting pressure on the quarterback,

the coverage downfield. You guys were in the top five defensive quarterback rating teams in the National Football League for the first ten weeks of the season, top five Elite in terms of defensive quarterback rating. And you know that number takes everything into account, the pass rush, the coverage, how buttoned up you are on the back end the Menelaire's incredible number to take a look at. And that was the way you guys were playing, and I thought

that fed into the strength of your team. That's kind of what the Dallas Cowboys do as well. They score points and try to make the opposing team one dimensional. So that now all of a sudden, Guys like Micah Parsons, Randy Gregory, DeMarcus Lawrence can kind of tee off and rush opposing quarterbacks. I see a grand scheme similarity between

the Cowboys and the Cardinals. Am I out of my mind? No? No, that's I feel like that the goal of any defense is to make them one dimensional because obviously, once you know exactly what they're going to be doing, it makes your job a lot easier. You know. Dennis Gardeck is our guests, and for those who haven't seen it, all right, he has his little side job, a little side hustle, and he's hosting a video series you tell us about it, give us a quick synopsis for those who haven't seen it,

It's called How I Got Here? And you feature the nutrition staff at the Cardinals, the strength coaches, Spanish broadcast Rolando Conto, the former Cardinal. For those who haven't seen it, I'm going to dial it up. What can they expect? Yeah? So, How I Got Here actually started during the rehab process with my ahl I was having You can't just small talk when you're rehabbing them. There every single day for multiple hours a day, so you really get to know

the men and women around you. And I was talking with one of our trainers, Jess Heffel, and she was voted most athletic her senior year or something like that, and I just thought it was the craziest thing, like, you know that here she is this great athlete in high school and now she's I wasn't even voted most athletic in my senior class. UM. But that kind of started, like, man, everybody's got a story. Everybody's got something, like there are

some incredible stories in our building, UM. And and I've kind of been highlighted for you know, division to this and that undrafted special team. But it's not just me. It's that there isn't a person in our building, UM that has just a regular run of the male story

like oh, nothing surprising there. Everybody has something, UM. And that was the goal behind how I got here, is to kind of uncover and and honestly it's it's for the guys in the in the building as well, Like you can learn something about these people that you're saying, Hi, how you doing and just kind of going about your day, you can learn something about them. Dennis. When you look at your career right now, where do you see it ending?

How long do you want to play? I'm going to play until they kick me out, they rip it off your back. Is that what you say? Yeah, yeah, I'm playing until they kick me out. No, I'm continuing to improve and finding finding ways to learn about offenses, which I think is very important, finding ways to do my job better. I feel like I'm still learning and growing, and I'm excited. I'm excited for my future and where

it's headed. But as far as a date and how long I want to play, it's until they kick me out. That's awesome, dude. And as far as this Sunday goes, describe your excitement level at getting extended action against the Cowboys. Tell us about that. Yeah, I'm just excited for the opportunity to showcase all this work I've been putting in throughout the year, a long offseason, all of that. Um, I'm just excited for the opportunity. Wells, thank you man,

really appreciate your time this evening. It's good to see you excel on the small talking because if you want to see someone fail at small talk, ron wolf Lee is your god. He's just he's worse I am. Yeah, just know that you. He might be the only guy in the building who would not be a good sum Okay, that's okay, Thank you, appreciate, thank you both for having me. Okay, there you go. Always great to connect with Wolf. You know. The other thing is you know your nickname, by the way,

you know the rare nickname that's stuck the barbarian. He actually enjoys it back with more on the big red rage first and ten on the Cardinal twenty snapped to Murray drops back the throat, looking deep, airing it out middle of the field. He's got Kirk. It's caught up the courting Kirk and the thirty the twenty fifteen ten by touchdown an eighty yard strike Kyler Murray to Christian Kirk two touchdowns for Kurk Now in the game. Oh baby,

that was huge right there. Kyler Murray saw Christian Kirk and he just ran the go rob What a great throw. Kyler Murray laid it out there and Christian Kirk what got it by his fingertips. And I still remember Christian Kirk's explanation after the game that he just kept sprinting and sprinting even though he saw it. He just he waited because he knew how close it was gonna be, and he didn't shoot his hands out to the very last moment because he didn't want to break stride and

boom there. You see what was amazing though, in that Jack stopping to the Cowboys last year on Monday Night Football Round, willfully welcome back into the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert is At Kyler improved his seven and all all time as a starter in the Cowboys Stadium High School, Oklahoma in the NFL, But he didn't have a great game, at least not on the stat sheet. He was nine to twenty four passing.

He misfired an eight of his first eleven. Remember he missed Larry in the back of the end zone, the most confounding throw I've seen in his entire career. He had one completion in the second after after they took a big lead, started to run the ball. So we'll see, and I'll be I'll be honest with you. After watching him meet the media this week, there was a little bit of an edge tool and I think an angry Kyle is a good Kyle. I'm with you on that BALLI I think he's going to be locked in Sunday.

I mean, why not? What is wrong? It's the game of football, after all. What is wrong with a quarterback even having a little something something dripping out of the side of his neck. Isn't that right? Tom Brady the guy who just got fine for smashing the Microsoft surface tablet, right, so, you know, and walking over to the same sideline and saying something we can't repeat on the air. Paully, I've said there's many many times to you. I've said there's

many times. I mean, can you imagine you're a basketball player at Polly, I mean, you're a little guy. I understand that that was a point guard. You'd have to you'd have to be the point. But imagine to that point if Steve Nash walked up to you and was your teammate and said, Paul, what are you doing? You're killing us, right, I mean, imagine the impact of that. Again. I just this is the Cardinals have got to get back to playing that special brand of football, and that

means I want to see the balance. I want to see the balance offensively, Paul. And you know what, I'm so glad you brought that up because this Dnamy earlier this week that what we saw to Kyler in Week one at Tennessee was the angry Kyler. Yeah, and I can say it from the sideline because they said it after the game, and they name names. Kyler lit up DeAndre Hopkins and Rondale Moore in the first half of the Tennessee game for making mental errors. Oh my goodness.

And let me tell you that set a tone. It really did when players are holding players accountable. When the quarterback, the face of the franchise, he's holding guys accountable all of a sudden, you tell me, is a player? I mean that urgency just bubbles up a little bit more. No, No, there's no doubt about it, Bully, it does. And that's exactly what Kyler's got to do. But once again, Kyler's got to be buttoned up as well. Kyler. It all

starts with your franchise quarterback. It's the reason why they get the inordinate amount of money and credit. I might add that they do. They impact so many other people. Their play impacts the defense, Paul, not the offense. It impacts the defense as well, and how the defense goes up. It's just human nature. If you look out there and see your quarterback making horrible reads and horrible throws. You're like, what is going on? Right? You're filled with doubts. And

I'm not saying that's what Kyler's doing it. I'm not saying that at all. Heed my words and hear them well. I'm speaking generally. If you watch your franchise quarterback go out there and light it up, man, it fills you with this way, this is we're gonna win this game. And again, it's not a conscious thought that you have.

It's just a confidence level that you're playing with. The Cardinals need to get back to being balanced offensively and running the ball and doing it well in between the tackles. And I think getting Rodney Hudson back, and I think James Connor if he's able to go, Oh my goodness, Polly, if James Connor is able to go and Chase Admonds, we can get them in tandem in the backfield once again running the ball at a north south kind of way and then taking some shots down the field via

Christian Kirk or a J. Greene. Get back to doing that, man, Bring the balance back to this offense. That's what I'm looking for first in Dallas. You mentioned Rodney Hudson the Arizona Cardinals this year with their Pro Bowl caliber center, they're eight and two. Without him, they're two and three. Hello. Here's Cliff Kingsbury on the return of Rodney Hudson. Rodney

has been huge for us. When you look at the games that he's played in, he played really well offensively, and he's the security blanket for all of us, really the coaching staff in the line of skill position players. I mean, he's kind of the glue that's made it all stick together. So it's a big deal to get him back, and we'll ease him back in the next few days, trying to get his conditioning going, make sure he feels up to speed, and hopefully by game day

he's ready to roll. It's Cliff said later to the media. Ronnie Hudson is rarely wrong, meaning when he's making the calls and they're adjusting things. And how many times early in the season was Ronnie Hudson responsible for an audible or a pass protection set that was key to a big play. Yeah, no doubt about it. And once again I also think too, you've got to make the Cowboys one dimensional, Paul, I mean if you can make them

one dimensional. I think that might actually help the Arizona Cardinals in one of the ways to make them one dimensional offensively, Paul is for the Cardinals offense to go out and be balanced and control the ball a little bit more. Everyone tries to do that to the Arizona Cardinals, right, why not do it to the Dallas Cowboys as well? Be ballanced, be able to run the ball a little bit better, and now all of a sudden score points when you get those red zone opportunities. Maximize those score

points and make the Cowboys play catch out. Yeah, think about it. They're number one in scoring offense thirty plus points a game, number one in total offense and makes total sense. And guess what you are banged up in your secondary the Cardinals right now, if you want a number. They have allowed twenty one touchdowns to receivers, the most in the NFL, and the Cowboys might have the most talented receiver room in the league. Hey, take a journey

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