Big Red Rage - Feely Talks Cardinals, Conference Title Games

And by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts. Visit Hacy Cardinals dot com, Slash Podcasts, The Rods Rising Guard, temperaturizing vision, flurring rage, taking it over. Here's Paul KELVC. Get the popcorn ready, It's gonna be a show, and Ron will flee. It doesn't get any better than that. Unleash the fiord. As there ever been a better big red rage to hear from a kicker Brown Wolfley. Did you watch the NFL playoffs last weekend? As a matter of fact, I did, Paulie.

The special teams were found wanting. So you saw the clutch kicks l Grande. You saw how three of the four games ended on a walkoff win with a kicker delivering the dagger. You saw the Niners and Robbie Gold at Green Bay in the snow. You saw the rookie Evan McPherson knock out the number one seed Tennessee. You witnessed the Rams and Matt Gay at Tampa Bay. Yes, I did. But there's a lot more to special teams ball. There's a lot more to a football game than just

the kicker hitting a walkoff football. Now, Wolf, now I

have to transition. Has there ever been a worse time for you to make that statement with our guest tonight, Jay Feeling for Cardinals kicking great our special guest tonight on the Big Red Race, And Jay's going to be the first one to tell you that right now, there's a lot more to it, Paul, than just the kicker kicking the ball and walking off, Just like there's a lot more to it than just a coin toss, Paul, did you not see Harrison Butker's forty nine yard that's

sent the Chiefs nightcap against Buffalo into overtime? The game that Jay Feeley works So well, we'll get into this with Jay feel. I saw it, Polly. I also saw the sea on his jersey. I see you you're maybe a little haughty, a little haughty with your four Pro Bowls on special teams. I get it, I get it. You're just you're just not willing to give the crick

the credit in this one. You might also be a little bit bitter, a little bit over the fact that Jay Feely went from his playing career immediately to network And we're in the CBS Blazer right on the sideline, baub Where are you going with all of this, Polly, That's what I want to know. Well, it's our intro to the original Thursday Night Football. It is the Big

Red Rage presented by Santa Forward in Gilbert. We are Satan Forward, Paul KELBC, Ron Wolfley, and what a weekend it was, Oh boy, I mean, you had serious drama on the field in the playoffs and then you add a Super Bowl press conference, Ron Wolfley, super Bowl fifty seven next year is located where right here, Paul, right

here in the AC Thanks for working with me. Because during that press conference or thereafter, the owner of the Cardinals, Michael Bidwell, had a few things to say and an Accentral dot Com among others, there was the use of the word disappointing Ron Wolfley to sum up the Cardinals finish to the season, and a couple of quotes along the lines of and I do quote anytime you see your direct competitors in the playoffs, it should bother any football fan, and it certainly bothers this one. And you

didn't bother you, Paul, It's bothering me right now. Although in retro's back to um. Yeah, the NFC, the NFC West is the beating heart of the football universe. It is the beating heart. We said this going into the season. It's been this way over the last two seasons, in particular, it's been the best division in the game of football. And unfortunately right now for the Arizona Cardinals, they're not in the NFC Championship game. But you know what two

NFC West teams are. We said it all season. If you can get through the NFC West and get into the playoffs, you're playoff ready. And guess what the Rams and the forty nine ers have looked the part. Obviously, the Cardinals do not at the La Rams. So you're looking at the fact that old boy, you know, you were able to able to slug it out and lead the division for much of the year. You won three out of four against these two teams in the regular seasons.

So yes, anybody looks at the NFC Championship game, the NFC best represented in the Cardinals division, and you wonder, man, okay, you know what exactly happened and why it couldn't have been us? You know what, Paul, honestly right now too, I just gotta tell you this. You know, I was really upset by this. I the Cardinals. All they had to do was beat the Seattle Seahawks at home at that State Farm Stadium. There they were, there were six

and ten the Seattle Seahawks. All they had to do is go out and beat them at home, and they would beat the NFC West champions. Now again in retrospect, we can look back at it, and everyone was like, hey, you know what, don't worry about it, because they're a great road team. They're going to travel to so far they've already won their once. And you know that's all true, there's no doubt about that. But man, it's the reason

why I was so greedy. I wanted that ball. I wanted that badly to win the NFC West, knowing it was the best division in football, and here it is being proved out by virtue of the NFC Championship game. Yeah, and we can cite all the numbers you want from that loss in Week eighteen or the loss against the Rams in the playoffs, but it's comments like Cliff Kingsbury after that loss at him to the Seahawks when the division title ended up being on the line, when he

said an I quote, they wanted it more. And that's what resonates to me. So as you go into the offseason, you're trying to diagnose what happened at the end of this past regular season, where with the playoff loss, you lost five out of your final six and and then you have to look at your roster and you got to figure all right, who's part of the solution, who's part of the problem. And here's Cliff Kingsbury before the

Cardinals departed on the offseason, just about roster planning. That's an ongoing process and Steve does a great job of getting right into it, and there'll be some tough decisions to make and we got to figure some things out. Well, don't don't. Don't the decisions go beyond just the game film. Oh yeah, you got to figure out right the chemistry and makeup of this team, and obviously that that can be a hard that can be a moving target, that can be really subjective. And so to me, this offseason

is as difficult as any, just for different reason. Then perhaps when you were three and thirteen, No, Paul, you're right about the man you really are, because once again, it starts with a thought, Paul, it starts with a philosophy. What is the Arizona Cardinals philosophy? That's what they'll do. They'll sit around the big rectangle. It'll be Steve Kim,

it'll be Cliff Kingsbury, the coaches. They'll sit around that big rectangle and say where do we want to go as a football team, because you have to answer that question before you go and get pieces that fit. Kind of like going into last offseason, stop and think about it. Steve Kim had two goals, get more physical and bring better leadership into the locker room. He went out and he did that in the off season. It starts with

a thought, it starts with a plan. And although the plan, the best laid plans of mice and men off go awry, and it did last year I think due to injury with J. J. Watt d hop going down as well, those two right there, Paul. The more I look back on at Paul, the more I think those two losses changed everything. Yeah, it changed the Cardinals offense. Obviously the only legitimate number one wide receiver, and then he were left wondering if you had a legitimate number two receiver.

At times, You're right, there was a massive trickle down effect. And then you know, there were two guys who weren't just playmakers, they were mentalities. JJ Watt was one of them. The other one was James Connor to me. And then when James Connor was banged up, especially in the playoff game, and he's wearing the rib protection, he just wasn't the same. Yeah, And you know, and then you wonder, at least I did based on the reaction from guys on the bench

and just the vibe on the sideline. Was it akin to when the Cardinals were between quarterbacks, when they were between Kurt Warner and Carson Palmer, Carson Palmer and Kyler Murray. And once the team got down, the rest of the team looked into at the quarterback or looked at that they said, you know what, we don't have any chance to get back into this game, and I think there was a bit of that perhaps and why I have no idea, that's just utter speculation. You talk about making

the decision and the decision makers. You know new multiple reports out today Adrian Wilson might be a prime candidate to be a GM in Jacksonville, along with potential head coach Byron Leftwich right, and Paul, you know what, honest say. I don't mean to interrupt you here, but I want to talk about that. But I think it's so important you continue on the track of what the players need to do and what the coaches need to do, what the organization needs to do. The first thing, PAULI is

you gotta tell the truth. You gotta tell the truth about what you saw. Forget about any type of agendas that might sway you one way or the other. You have to tell the cold, hard truth. It was one of the reasons why when I heard JJ watsay it was a massive failure, it filled me with hope, hope. It actually encouraged me to hear somebody like that character and calling it exactly what it ultimately was. In light of how well they had played over twelve weeks of

the season. I'm talking about three months of the season the Cardinals had played ten and two. You have to call it exactly what it is, so you tell the truth. Everybody tries to be accountable to each other and accountable for what happened in the second half of the season again and how they played. And that starts with Kyler Murray. It does. And then you can start trying to fix things via the positions that you might actually bring in.

And while he's still on the rookie contract, you have to make some expenditures and you have to figure out, Okay, once again, who's stand who's going. Guys like zach ERTs, you gotta figure they're gonna go down swing and trying to bring back the big tight end. And here he is on the potential of continuing his career with the Cardinals. I've loved my time here in Arizona. I would love the opportunity to continue here. There's a lot of things

out of my control. You got a lot of good players at our free agents as well, so it may not be even up to me, but it's been a blessed thing to be able to be here. I've truly loved it. My wife has obviously loved it. Obviously it didn't end where we wanted it too, But I still feel like we have unfinished business as a team. I

would love to be a part of it. We're gonna get into some of these guys with Jay Feely, whether it's the two tight end Zach Ertz and Max Williams, whether it's Chandler Jones and James Connor, Aj Green, Christian Kirk, Chase Edmonds, you know, I mean, you know a Jordan Phillips type, Colt McCoy, you know, even Robert Alfred who went into the offseason injured. I mean there's almost thirty guys where you have to make a decision on their football future. Wolf and so you know there there's gonna

be an evolution to this roster. There's no doubt about it. I think it will be telling asked to who gets the contract offers and who does not. There's no doubt about that, Paulie. And again, it starts with a plot, starts with the philosophy, then you start playing in the pieces. Jay Feeley was on the sideline for Buffalo Kansas City. Was it the greatest game he ever witnessed? And he's gonna be there for the AFC Championship game this weekend

as well. The former Cardinals kicker and CBS analyst up next on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert fey Renny Zacidi to hold a sixty one yard try ball is down to kick from Pheeley is up. It has the lag and it has Jay Feeley from sixty one pig the k sixty one yard field goal by j Peeley. The gotta be kinning me twenty three yard attemp now by Jay Feeley, snap and it's a fake.

They pitched the Feeley He's hunting like Peeley cup highlot fake field count down and Jay Feely with a University of Phoenix stadium leaf that your offensive struggling? What's your kicker has? I guess that's why Feely wears gloves as a kicker. You know, the Denver Post stole day Pash's line right there, because earlier today I went to verify that game in some of the stats and in the Google search first came up this Denver and that was the lead line in the Denver Post story. So that's

why Jay Feely wears gloves. Polly, let me just tell you right now. The reason why he wore gloves is so he could jack you in the face if you only kick her ever to want to jack you in the face. Well, you heard two signature moments right there from Jay's Cardinal's career, a career best and at the time team record sixty one yard fuel goal against the Bills.

And then there was once upon a time when Jay Feely scored twenty five points in the Cardinals game and not the Cardinals, Jay Feely scored twenty five points with five fuel goals and a touchdown run on the fake fuel goal. And he's still gloves except now as an analyst for CBS on the sideline of all these playoff games, Jay, how are we doing? If you Steve frosted yet? It

wasn't too bad. It was kind of warm. I mean for Kansas City in the middle of you know, January, late January, it was pretty it was pretty warm on the sidelines. And by the way, like doing that game right there, it's the greatest game I've ever seen in my entire life. Come on, really far by far, I mean, if dandy on the sidelines, I've never done a game, Paul, you do a lot of games as well on the sidelines.

I have never done a game where I'm working a game and I'm literally screaming and yelling like a fan on the sideline, you know, like just random people who if I'm like, well, yeah, after play, after playing, it was unbelievable. I've never seen a game. In fact, in NFL history, there's never been a game thirty one points scored after the two minute warning? Are you kidding me? Right? It was ridiculous. Yeah, it was just high level plays.

I mean it was just unbelievable play after play. Quarterbacks putting them all in the right spot, guys making the catches, Tyreek Hill exploding on the sidelines. I mean, it was just it was just the show. And you know, that's one of those games where you're like, man, I get paid to stand on the sideline and do that. That's pretty cool. Jay. How about the entire weekend though? How about that entire divisional playoff weekend? Who it was unbelievable,

was it not. It's the best weekend of NFL football ever. I mean, you can there's no way that weekend always is the best weekend of the year. The division round is the best weekend of football. Every single year. I can't wait for that round because it's the best teams, it's the best matchups, and to have all four games come down to the last play of the game, Uh, you know, it's just spectacular. And you know there was there was great play, there was terrible special teams play. Yes,

you know, just agregious coaching. Um just but it was fascinating. The whole weekend was fascinating, all right. And we're going to get into the conference championship games in depth in the next segment. But you mentioned Tyreek Hill. I'm just gonna launch our Cardinal's discussion with a following question, And this is a genuine question that I've posed before. Is there any way Rondale Moore can be a poor man's Tyreek Hill? Can the Cardinals deploy Rondale Moore in as

similar fashion as Tyreek Hill? Or on I off my rocker, J. I don't think they're the same kind of player, you know. I just I don't think he's as explosive, you know, as a Tyreek Hill. But I love the kind of player that he is, and I love what he brought to the team this year, and I think they can continue to use him in so many ways, and if you're creative enough and get the right matchups. Ron, you

know this, The NFL is about matchups. You know, if you're gonna win in the NFL, you have to create the right matchups and then your quarterback has to leverage those matchups. That's what the Chiefs do better than anybody, and they find great ways to to put Kelsey and Tyree Hill in the right matchups, using formations, tendencies, motion, and using the defense against them to get them in a position where Patrick Mahomes can exploit it. I think you can do that if you if you do a

good job. You know, as an offensive coordinator with Cliff Kingsbury, he can do a good job and he can use Ronde more that way. I don't know that they're the same kind of player though, Right, Jay, go ahead and look at the Arizona Cardinals and just to your general opinion on what happened the last couple of years in the second half of the season and how you might

go about fixing it this offseason. Well, Ron, I was listening to you the first ten minutes and you said something that I know you know I agree with, but you hit it on the head and that they have to be honest with themselves. Yeah. And when I say they and you you as well. You mean players looking at themselves, yes, and being honest about where their deficiencies are and how to how to get better. Coaches looking at themselves and say where did I struggle? Where didn't

I do a great job? Why why do we continue to not do well in the second half of the season. And I'll just point out that Sean McVay struggles in the same way. He's had a lot of the same struggles with his offense that Cliff Kingsbury has had. You know that after they've gone through half a season, that defense coordinators start understanding what they're trying to do and how they're trying to do it, and they don't have

near as much success. Um, you know. So it's not it's not something that is just Cliff Kingsbury when it comes to that, Um, you know. But I think you're right. I think it starts at the quarterback position. To me, I think, um it was. It was very evident last weekend when you watch Josh Allen, how how good he is.

You go back to his his rookie year, and people were absolutely calling him a bust and saying that the Bills made a very poor decision by moving up in the draft to go get him and to make him

their quarterback. And I think what separates Josh Allen from some other guys in the league is that he had the humility to look at himself and to objectively look at where his weaknesses were as then be proactive and going out and getting somebody like a Jordan Palmer who could help him to address those weaknesses, and then be committed in the offseason, not to going and spending his time having fun traveling, did all these things to say, now I'm going to spend three months out in California

with you, Jordan Palmer, and I'm gonna let you help me get better as a quarterback and learn the game and understand it from a mental perspective and understand it from a physical perspective. And he did that every year three years in a row. I think that's why you saw how good he was on the field on Sunday. And I don't believe he would have been that good had he not taken those steps every off season. And I think if you want to get to a championship level,

that's what you have to do. And he was good. Statwells and the two playoff games, on the sixteen possessions that he was on the field, the Bill score touchdowns on twelve of the sixteen possessions. Think about that's unreal. Yeah, And his first playoff game was pretty miserable. Lamar Jackson's first playoff game was even worse. So these are I mean, if nothing else, JA, what you're saying is Kyler needs to be honest with himself based on that playoff performance

at LA and make improvements accordingly. I believe that's where it starts. I think both the two most important people in the organization are Cliff Kingsberry and Kyler Murray, and

obviously Steve kim Is as well Michael Bidwell. But I'm just saying, from an on the field perspective, your head coach, who's your play caller, and your quarterback are going to dictate how far you go in each season and whether or not you win in the playoffs, and they both have to look at themselves and be honest and figure out how. I get that. I think Cliff Kingsberry did a pretty good job this year. I was impressed with

him is the most impressed I've been with him. And I think back to Culte McCoy when he started for those three games and how well they functioned offensively, and what he was able to do to take his offense and more fit and allow Culte McCoy to succeed. I think he did a really good job and I think they need to continue to build around that philosophy and I think it can be successful. And you know, obviously they're gonna have to go out and you have to

try to figure out the linebacker position. You know, you got two first round picks and they have to get on the field and they have to play, and they have to be successful. You know, you need those two guys out there playing helping your team, you know, And that's something that has to be addressed this offseason. They need they need a corner. They need to shut down corner. I thyn get it. You need a number two receiver. I think, um, you know, if you bring hot back

and you try to get a number two receiver. I mean, obviously Christian took strides this year when they moved him into the slot and had his best year. But he's

a free agent. Who knows, you know what kind of offers he gets, you know, around the NFL, so, um, you know, those are probably some areas I'd love to see him bring James Connor back, and I think he fits this offense really well and flourished, you know, and brought up physicality that they really needed at that running back position, and you know, you got just I kind of feel like the strength of the Arizona Cardinals is still their offense. I still kind of feel that way.

Do you agree with that the strength is their offense. No, the strength of the team is their offense. Yeah, I definitely agree with that. I think they've they've built their team that way. You know, look in the playoffs, Look in the playoffs right now. You know, the strength of the Bengals is their offense. The strength of the Chiefs is their offense. The strength of San Francisco is their defense. The strength of LA is probably their defense as well. Yeah.

So you can build championship teams one way or another. I think you just need to be committed, Yes, committed totally, and yet at the same time, I think what lies at the heart of their collapses over the last couple of years is their offense. And for whatever reason and you agree with that. And because of that, obviously Cliff

Kingsbury has got to look at it schematically. But when you start putting the pieces together, I think they need an offensive guard to help protect Kyler Murray help improve the running game. If I had to identify one position on the offensive line, I would say guard to help protect Kyler Murray and then wide receiver to give him options. Of course I'll the bend hop he needs options. And then also I'm just gonna say this, Jay in rundown situation first and ten second and one to six, they

need a stud tight end. They need a tight end like Max Williams. Go back and look at the film in the first five weeks of the season, how well this offense was playing together, and how balanced this offense was as well. A lot of that I think had to do with Max Williams. Eleven personnel, one back, three wide receivers lining up in rundown situation and you didn't know if they were going to run it or if they were going to throw it, because they could do

both almost equally. Well, that's what San Francisco does so well. When you have a George Kittle, who is such a good blocker, but as a dynamic pass catcher as well, if provides schematic flexibility. But I don't think they need George Kittle per se because everyone's looking for George Kittle everybody. I hope not when you've got d hop and you

had Christian Kirk and AJ. I thought they had some wide receiver talent on the perimeter man, and it was Max Williams that brought a lot of that down home fundamental balance to an offense, and yet they still had

dangerous weapons on the field. Well, look, based on what you guys just said, and you mentioned Cole McCoy and what the offense looked like when Colt was in there, Calvci consulting the Polypiskin Division, wouldn't mind seeing more what Colt ran with Kyler putting him under center, more play action, more quick passes. Right, It's just much more dynamic to

a defense. It presents so much more to defend. Into your point, Wolf about getting a guard if that's where they go at twenty three overall, I have no problem with that because what did Aaron Donald say after the game quote, I feel like the quarterback wasn't comfortable at all. Yes, and can you put a value on your quarterback being comfortable and being confident in the pocket, especially those interior offensive lineman ball. Yes, especially in this division against Aaron

Donald and Nick Bosa and company. And so all right, we'll get into the SCNFC Championship games. Jay Fey, former Cardinals kicker and CBS analyst on board. It is the Big Red Rage presented by Satan Pard and Gilbert We are Satan pord Evan McPherson for the Bengals win from fifty two. McPherson eyes the uprights, looks down, tells Hugh Maury's running. Here's the snap ball now. McPherson's kick is

on the way, and it is good. The Bengals win because Cincinnati Bengals are going to be a FC title game. Kevin McPherson with the walk off winner from fifty two at the Bengals dream season continues, first and goal in the eight. Paul Holmes gets the shotgun snapped, pumps throws from the inzoon to Kelsey. The justusting takes the catch. Travis Kelsey with a touchdown in the back right quarter of the insong. Kansas City wins it forty two thirty six and over time and the Cheeks who host the

four straight AFC Championship game racket. Kevin Kugler on Westwood One, you guys mentioned earlier, Paul kelvc Ron Wolfley, and Jay Fey are special guest CBS analysts former Cardinals kicker Hair on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. Every playoff game in the Divisional round, all four decided on the final play, three game winning walk off field goals and the overtime touchdown. Four games decided by a

total of fifteen points. Think about that, and Evan McPherson, the rookie kicker, was responsible for the most retweeted tweet of the entire weekend. It was the Bengals team account that tweeted out in a quote, that's why you draft a kicker, exclamation point? How about that? Jay about? How

about them apples when it comes to kickers? Right. That's pretty interesting too, because I'm the guy who says not to draft a kicker because I think it's really hard to evaluate how a guy is going to translate mentally

from college to the NFL. And I will say that Evan McPherson had a long time kicker as a special teams coach at Florida Shane Graham, who really prepared him mentally to be able to step in and succeed in the NFL, and they had they had the same special teams coach as well, So it was a good situation for him to step into. But I think that's really hard to do in real quick guys. The story goes, and you know this Jay that Evan McPherson supposedly as soon as they got into field goal range said well,

looks like we're going to the FC championship game. He was beyond confident walking up for that game winning kick. That's unreal to have that sort of well, right, because when you've missed a couple of those, you're not gonna say, you know what the Jay just talk about that though, that that moment right there, I mean, how difficult was that for a rookie to walk in and do that. I know what's based on you know, the type of

persity is and his personality and his past experience. But were you were you surprised he walked out there and coolly hit that kick. You know, I wasn't surprised that he made it at all. You watched him kick all day, and he had kicked the ball really, really well. Every ball was clean off his off his foot. That was his fourth game winner of the year. I mean, there's a guy who has made eleven cent an NFL record this year with eleven field goals over fifty yards, you know,

which is just spectacular. I think the hardest kick of the weekend was Harrison Bucker's forty nine yarder, and I think it was it was it was that it was the most difficult because he had he had missed a fifty yarder going that way at the end of the first half. He had then missed an extra point. So he misses the fifty and pushes it right, almost misses a short field goal, pushing it right later on, and then over over corrects and misses an extra point left.

So all of that in his mind as he wants out there, you know, to kick this forty nine yard field goal after it looks like they lose the game and in thirteen seconds they boom boom, get right down the field and now you got to step in and make this kick. And you know, he stepped in and drilled it, and that's why you know he's one of the best kickers in the NFL. But I think that that was very difficult, and he and I talked about

it after the game. You know, that was it was one of the harder moments he's had in his entire NFL career. He championship Cincinnati at Casey one o'clock, Arizona time on CBS. Your broadcast crew, Nance, Romo Wolfson and Feeling. So what does it come down to beyond the kickers, Jay, what do you think this game is going to come down to Joe Burrow against Patrick Mahomes and company. Well, I think it's two things, and I think wolf Wolf is gonna love one of them. But the first thing

is can you keep Patrick Mahomes in the pocket? You know? And he's such a good thrower, you know, you don't you know, just think about Okay, well, we gotta keep in the pocket because he can he can pick you apart in the pocket. But he does most of his

damage with his legs. You know, He's thrown for more yards and anybody in the NFL this year when he's scrambling when he gets outside the pocket, and then when he's in the playoffs, he'll run the ball and you saw that last week, and he's so dangerous running the ball, and it just makes it really difficult on a team because he is so good on the move and he will burn you and hurt you. And that's what makes it really hard for these defenses. You know that you

have to then plaster. It's not the initial call, it's the secondary calls you have to look out for. And then the second thing. I think this is what Wolf is going to really love for. Since I have any chance, they have to be able to do a good job on Chris Jones and the interior of that pass rush for the Kansas City Chiefs. I mean, they have up nine sacks last week and Jeffrey Simmons just killed them

on the inside for Tennessee. And if you allow them to do that again, I don't know that you can get away with allowing your quarterback to one get hit that much and two have that kind of pressure from the interior. No, it's a great point right there. And not only that too, Chris Jones is capable of being that guy too. He's talkable, yes, no doubt about it. Okay, flip over to the NFC Championship Game. The forty nine

ers at the Rams. Your thoughts on this. I love this match and it's fascinating because you have these two coaches who coached together, who developed the same kind of philosophy, who then became a head coaches, And then I've had a tremendous amount of success offensively, even though they kind of do it a little different. You know, one team loves to live in eleven personnel and the forty nine ers love to be in twelve personnel and they're a lot more physical and they use the fullback, and so

to me, it's really a fascinating matchup offensively. And then both teams are built defensively on that defensive line, you know, and San Francisco has gotten after they first they got after Dallas and that defensive line with a four man front where they don't have the blitz and they just get after you. The same thing last week to Aaron

Rodgers and Green and Green Bay, you know. And then obviously the Cardinals fans know really well all about the Rams defensive front and what they can do to a quarterback, and you know, that's that's the matchup. Which defensive line has more success and which offensive coordinator head coach is going to do a better job calling plays and scheming up the possibilities. I think it's a fascinating matchup. I

love I love it. It'll be it'll be fascinating to watch. Yeah, there's gonna be more eye candy in this game than you've ever seen before. Right, Kyle Shannon just led the league for the sixth right year and sift in motion rate,

and there's always something to happen. And you know, but to your point, Jay, if somehow, some way that Niner's old line, which is above average, and with Trent Williams and company, if they can keep Jimmy g clean beyond Jalen Ramsey, that's secondary for the Rams is such a liability and and no one, including the Cardinals, no one's been able to really exploit that, Like I think the Niners might be able to. Yeah, I'm with you one

hundred percent. I don't know that the forty Niners can exploit it, but that's what they should be trying to do. On my favorite play the weekend was watching you know, they're six foot six, three hundred and fifty pound tackle go in motion a couple of times will Ye, No, they didn't follow him. They tried to get all cute and have him in motion and then run the ball off the middle and get scot stuff. But Jay, did

you see though, Trent Williams went in there. Man, he went in there and he wiped out not only the opponent but his own guys. Oh yeah, he's just gonna kill everybody. You know, it was games going with the program, you know, go in there and kill them all. Or maybe the jig is just up on the forty nine ers. Maybe they're about to get exposed. Because I cited that stat where with Josh Allen, the Bills scored a touchdown

in twelve of their sixteen possessions. You realize that the forty nine ers have scored a touchdown in the playoffs on two of twenty possessions. And they're in the NFC Championship game. So I mean, are they a food gaizy? Are they about to be exposed as a fraud? They're not a fraud because they're so physical. Yeah, but they lacked the offensive explosiveness to win any kind of a shootouts,

you know. And and and you worry with Jimmy g because he's gonna make two or three throws every game that are head scratching throws that you just don't understand, you know, like the throw against Green Bay when you're going in and you're trying to score and it's first down and you throw this ball late and it gets picked off and you're going, what are you doing? Yes? You know, And he'll make two or three of those throws and if they if they turn him in interceptions,

you know, then the game get away from me. You know. You know Jay, the way that rocks the sideline as well, you're over there, you're looking at him. What we're doing it? Okay, quick, you're you're super Bowl prediction, super Bowl fifty six. I want to say one more thing I want to tell you because Cardinals fans are going to interstand this. I watched Trey Lance warm up before the Dallas game, and

I was not very impressed at all. In fact, I'd be very worried if I were the forty nine ers and I was thinking about turning my team over to him next year. Okay, you know. And and jimmyj has said like he's approaching this off season like it's his last year as a forty nine er, So that's really interesting to me. Well, it's an off season race Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady to the Niners. We're calling it right here, So there you go. You're the best, Jay,

Thanks Jay, Rams in the Super Bowl. Hey you guys, there you go. Thank you Jay. The three of us have had many a debate in the discussion on the air and off football and beyond, so it's great to catch up with Jay Feely. We'll get into this NFC Championship game in depth next on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan four in Gilbert. Four seconds to play, tied to ten, and here comes Robbie gold Is, seventeen

year veteran. This is in the snow, This is in the wind, This is in LAMBA forty five yard field goal on the snowy grass. We're snow ski will hold a couple of the snap high, stamp, put down, kick is up and the kick is god. He got a clock at zero. San Francisco is one. We're San Francisco is stunt Green Bay. Nobody has a time out. Four seconds to go in regulation. Matt gay On to win it for the Rams. Snap ball down, the kick is up, and the kick he's god. If the Rams are going

to the NFC, championship game. And have we seen the last one of the most decorated quarterback in NFL history, Tom Brady? Is he done? The Rams look like they were done the way the Buccaneers came back, but they still went it in regulation thirty to twenty seven. They'll host the forty nine Ers at SOFI Stadium next Sunday

for the right to go to the Super Bowl. I think we all recognize that voice, our own great Dave Pass preceded by Kevin Harlan on Westwood One, the national radio calls of those two divisional playoff games that sets up the NFC Championship this Sunday, the forty nine Ers going to the Rams. How many forty nine Ers fans will be there as a big storyline, no doubt about that.

Will Matthew Stafford have to go into this silent count at home for the second straight game against the forty nine ers, will see but yeah, that was just dripping with drama. And think about that, Matthew Stafford. By the way, Wolf, here's your holy can only stat of the day, as we say, welcome back in the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert since nineteen fifty eight. The Detroit Lions have one playoff win. That was nineteen ninety one,

Barry Sanders beat the Dallas Cowboys basically single handedly. Uh. Former Lions number one pick overall Matthew Stafford now has two two playoff wins. That's right, buy, So there you go. You know not only that too. First of all, okay, it's so weird to hear Dave Pash on that call, David Moonlight. Why exactly? Um, I know, bad voice and you're talking about the Rams. And okay, all right, that get over it. Um, that is number one right there, Polly,

what is your other thought? Your other thought coming up here on the NFC Championship game? Do you have any other thoughts about this poll? You know what it is, and and and there's a little bit of bitterness here, a little bit. Okay, I'm just gonna say it right out front. Is that this whole Ram's grand plan. Yeah, is this close to coming to fruition. They started this year saying we're all in the super Bowls in our own building. We want to be like Tampa a year ago.

We want to host Super Bowl fifty six. We're going all the way. In fact, if everything goes to plan, we won't even have to leave our own building from like week seventeen to the end of this season, and so everything for them, now that was a road playoff win, obviously, but basically everything has gone the way they had hoped

so far. Yeah, and you know, going all in and then obviously, but what's vexine is what the Cardinals did to them in Week four And I still can't get past that, that physical brand of ball, what they did to the Rams in their own building that I think, in their own minds necessitated. We needed von Miller, we needed Obj, We have to make moves to compete with the Cardinals. And then good point pulled away. No, that is really a cellion point by you right there, Paula.

You ought to make that your radio gold vault right there. Go ahead and file that one away because you nailed it. But honestly, I think back to that week number four, I think back to that contest. I think that was the height of this offense. I do. Why don't you go back and you look at that tape the first especially again I talked about it earlier, the first five games of the year, just the the the physicality of

this offense um with eleven personnel, with Max Williams. The game that Max Williams had as well against the Rams, I think that was the pinnacle game of this offense and one that I think they might want to go back and look at and rehash and rehash and rehash. Is that because the Cardinals ran it forty times for two hundred and sixteen yards. Yes, and so much of the time you were there, Paulli. It was a it was a very physical north south, in your face run.

And also too, it highlighted the fact Kyler Murray would pull the ball down in run. I remember what was it a third and sixteen? Was that third and sixteen and he went eighteen um the shot he took down the field. You and I were talking about this very thing, the the the ability to roll the ball down the field like we saw Kyler Murray doing earlier in the season. Man, I just honestly, that was the highlight of the year. I'm looking at some of those game notes right now.

Wolf Kyler was twenty four or thirty two for two to sixty eight, two touchdowns, no picks, yes, at a passer rating to one twenty. He ran it those six times when needed, he ran it for thirty nine yards the big one on third and sixteen. Cardinals had four hundred sixty four total yards after an opening punt. They scored on seven of eight possessions, when eight of thirteen on third down and three of five in the red zone in Polly, that's when they had a secondary. That's

when they actually had the safeties all healthy. Their secondary was healthy, and the Cardinals just dismantled them in that game. Again. You know, I realize it's one game I do and Aaron Donald did not look like Aaron Donald in that game. But somehow, some way, they've got to find a way to replicate that. What was intriguing was what j Feeley

said about Sean McVay. There have been times where Sean mcvay's offense over the course of his season has not evolved, has bogged down that other teams have perhaps caught up defensive coordinators. And what did Sean McVey do this year after the loss of Robert Woods. They went back to the Todd Gurley style exactly right, and there was Matthew Stafford undercenter. I'm just saying, yeah, I'm not going to get up on the under center box again, I'm not

going to do that, even though I just did. I'm just telling you, Paul, that has got to be something they look at too. Well. You look at the Cardinals schedule next season and the home games nine of them. Not only did that division matchups, but think of some of the question marks out there Tampa. Who's going to be the quarterback? Is Tom Brady? Because the Bucks are coming to town New Orleans, Who's gonna be the head coach? Who's gonna be the four quarterback man? Four different quarterbacks

this year? Kse is coming to the az with Patrick Mahomes and company the Chargers, and Justin Herbert the Patriots and Mac Jones, your former coach, Bell Belichick coming to Arizona. And then the Eagles are also coming to the AC. So it is interesting and intriguing that home schedule next year. Paully, that is incredible right there. To think about it's six playoff teams. Of the nine games they play at home, six of them are going to be playoff opponents. That's significant.

You know what's amazing is that neither Joe Burrow nor Josh Allen made the Pro Bowl for the AFC. It was Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson and Justin Herbert. Those were your three quarterbacks from the AFC, and it's there's just an interesting factoid there. But how about how about my theory if you will, okay, all right, if it was Sweep's month, you know, maybe, but that theory that maybe Tom Brady and or Aaron Rodgers might have their site set on the forty nine ers. To Jay Feeley's point

that Jimmy G is probably done no matter what. Trey Lance doesn't appear to be ready, and if you have a super Bowl ready roster, then maybe just maybe one of those two NorCal natives is angling to get back with the forty nine ers. No way, I don't see that happening. You. How many draft picks did you mortgage to get Trey Lance? Three? Three? I don't know, Polly, I don't know, man. That would take some big circumforts right there, John Lynch, I don't know about that, Paul.

Why not just bring back Jimmy G for another year. He's got another year on his contract. All right, I'm gonna read this. I want your super Bowl prediction when I'm done. The Arizona Cardinal season ticket priority list for the twenty twenty two season. We just mentioned the home schedule. Go to Acy Cardinals dot com Slash Priority lists for

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