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State Farm and buy Arizona Cardinals podcasts. Visit Hacy Cardinals dot com, Slash podcasts, The Rods Rising Guard, temperaturizing vision, flurring, rage taking over. Here's Paul Calvc. Hit the popcorn ready, It's gonna be a show, and Ron will fleep. It doesn't get any better than that. Unleash the far well, well, well, I think we all know a certain someone who's feeling the effects of yesterday. Dare I say a certain well known somebody who's perhaps nursing an extra large hangover today

who might have needed some help? Dare I say Wolf getting ahold of his sea legs? As are you talking about or no? I'm talking about the guy who thoroughly enjoyed his seventh Super Bowl victory celebration. Now that he doesn't have a coach who's actually at the podium the day or the days after winning a Super Bowl shouting no days off right. Instead, it's quite a different celebration. And he partook and maybe had a little too much yesterday.

I'm talking about ba's quarterback TB twelve. Yeah, Tom Brady right there, Pobably, that was a little disconcerting. I've got to tell you that, Polly, especially the shot of him throwing the Lombardi Trophy from his boat. Of course, I would estimate some twenty feet Palli, some twenty feet in the air. And Cameron Bright, of course, is the guy that actually brought it down. But Rob Gronkowski also ate it a little a little help on that catch right there.

And you know what the disconcerting part of that was his nine year old daughter Va saying, no, Daddy, no, I mean that was that was a part that got by attention, Paul. He didn't hear the voice of reason at that moment. No, there was a God. And it wasn't necessarily the twenty feet between the boats. I think it was the eighty feet worth the depth of the Hillsboro River as someone pointed out it was eighty feet deep? Is it really, Paul? Somebody said, it's eighty feet deep

at that point in the river. So that's a dive. I mean you would have had a broad to divers in to actually retrieve the Lombardi. Correct, I mean if that would have been an incomplete pass with the Lombardi. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Was it like somebody was diving and jumping overboard. I'll go get it. So, uh, that was the very definition of working without a net. Put it that way. And so they got it then. And I love when when they actually did give Bruce arians the mic.

How many times did he say we're gonna be back, and uh, you know what, We're gonna win it again, and all the players is gonna be back despite the fact they have over a half dozen big time free agents. But a lot of bravado with the Mike, the b NBA standing for bravado that with all right, I said, a lot of all rights. You know, I think it's a Knick Saban thing. I really do, Paul. Yeah, Nick Saban, have you noticed says he happens to say all right

after he says something right. It's kind of like I say, right, you know what he says? All right, Uh, it's it's catching God, Paul the Knick Saban thing. I think it's catching God with other coaches out there, because I've never heard Ba say I as much as he said it. I always took that as you're in a position of power and you want those who are subordinate to you to not according them. That's why you're saying the affirmation.

As you're going about what you're saying, the affirmation, the acknowledgement, the buy in that I'm in charge. You're listening to me. I here's the way it's gonna be. So tonight on The Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert We are Santan for tonight special guest former Cardinals linebacker Cardinals broadcaster Rob Frederickson. All right, Freddy, Yeah, so look, he saw every snap of every game. The man has opinions. We know that. All you have to do is listen

to the postgame show. So Rob Frederickson, what did he see? What does he think needs to happen on both sides of the ball? Where exactly is the NFC West? Now? Where's it going? We have questions? Do we not Rolf. How did he like the boat parade as well? Sure it's not like rob is a foreign to celebrations in the locker room. As a former raider. I mean, the man knows how to party. So that's all coming up on the Big Red Rage. Freeman wide right, Dick split to the left, matched up on Pat p Allen back

to throw looking for Dickson. Stead steps up, throws deep middle, picked off. Peterson got that one. He's in his forty yard line, running far side of the forty five and down there Pat pat got allan that time. I've done all I can to present. You know that I would love to be here. But at the end of the day, you know, it's up to them. We just have to wait and see what the future brings. After the season's Patrick Peterson at the conclusion of two twenty year the

interception against Buffalo. Patrick Peterson Now after the conclusion of a five year, seventy million dollar contract, what is his future? That is one of the biggest questions for the Big Red here in the off season. It is the Big Red Rage presented by Satan Ford and Gilbert Paul calvc Ron Wolfley. The season is over, so you know what we continue though with Thursday Night Football, do we not?

And the big talk right now, if you're a Cardinals fan, what exactly is the future of Patrick Peterson Ron Wolfley? Do you have a gut feeling of forecast? What do you think at this point? Yeah, Polly, you know what, honestly, right now, I would love to see Pat Pe come back with the Arizona Cardinals. I just don't know if that's going to be the case. You covet what you don't have, Polly, and the grass is greener on the

other side. You take those two axioms that have been around for a long long time, and I think what's going to happen is there's going to be a team out there that is going to pay Patrick Peterson something that Steve Kiman, the Arizona Cardinals, would not pay. That's my gut feeling on that. I hope I'm dead wrong on that, Polly. I hope that Pat Pe comes back. I still think he's got real value. He's he's maybe not that shut down corner that he once was, but

he's still a very good corner in this league. Well, he did shut down something else here this week, and that was a report from a fan site that apparently, according to this report, and we use that loosely, that he and the Cardinals are quote parting Way's barring a significant change and stances end quote over a new contract. Now, Pat p went on his podcast and he shot that

down something fierce. In fact, he called a quote a dirty rumor, which is why I think it made virtually every single national platform, including the New York Post, because they're obligated to run anything that has the words dirty rumor in it. But that was his words, and he said, me and the team haven't talked about contracts. We haven't talked about partying ways. And at the end he said, geez,

give me a break. The offseason just started and we're nowhere near in March seventeenth, the official start of the league year. I'm with you to a certain degree. Wolf. I don't think there's gonna be sort of big offer from the Cardinals come the start of the league. Yeah. I do wonder what the rest of the league thinks. I think if there's one team out there that's gonna blow the doors off someone, I get the sense it's

gonna be Hassan Reddick. I actually fear that more than losing Patrick Peterson to another team via a big offer. I just wonder where Hassan Reddick is his age and the need for pass rush. Sure not that he cornerback is in a position that's most importance in the NFL, but it's where he is in his career and what we've seen in the past, the guys like Olivier Vernon and so forth has gotten those big numbers. I actually worry more about his son, Reddick, although I don't discount

the fact that somebody out there covets Patrick Peterson. Yeah, no, Polly, I'm with you on that. Listen. I think Pat he is still a guy that can line up press man. He can line up and play man off. As a matter of fact, I don't think his instincts are really really great when you play zone cover. A guy like Richard German. Stop and think about Richard Dermott right now. He has built his entire career based on the fact that he's going to play that deep third, cover three three,

deep zone four underneath. He's going to play that deep third about as well as anybody has ever played that deep third, And especially when you're talking about a corner Now, Richard Sherman is also a guy that I think at some point we'll make that move, and maybe it's the next year too. Safety. I think he's that good of a tackler open field, you could actually move him to safety. We've seen many corners do that over the course of

their career. I don't think Pat p is in that boat right there, Pat, he is still a guy that can line up and play man. Now, you get an awful lot of man beaters out there. You get teams that are running a lot of man beat or routes, which makes it very, very difficult. But that's who Vans Joseph truly is. Well, if you're talking about crossers, as Patrick Pete calls him, he talked about that and he

admitted he needs to get better in that area. You know, just have to go back in and watch the film and just continue watching how teams are attacking me and which is you know, covering drags and crossers running through traffic. So I have to find a way doing this offseason of maneuvering better through things like that. It was obviously it was a big problem Week four against Carolina, we know that, but it was a persistent problem at times. So the rest of the season as well, wasn't it. Yes,

And the reason being is because of Vans. Joseph of course, a defensive coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals. He is Wade Phillips disciple to some degree, and that's exactly what he loves to play. He loves to play cover one, which is man, free man across the board with a free safety high in the middle of the field. Right, This is what the Arizona Cardinals love. They love to go with a lot of man, a lot of complex pressure packages as well. You'll see that on third and obvious

pass situations. But the Cardinals love to run man. And you know, anytime you do that, guess what the other team is looking at tape on you and they're saying, Okay, what do we need to do? Well, what do you say we get into a bunch formation, a trips formation to one side of the field, and we run a bunch of crossers. What do you say we get in two by two and we run the scissors play right,

we run a bunch of crossing routes and drags. As you heard Pat Pe talking about right there, they know what to run against the Arizona Cardinals they're called man beater route combinations, and it's tough. It's one of the

hardest routes for any corner to cover. I'm talking about historically, Dion Sanders had a hard time on a drag route, a quick drag right off the snap of the ball, not gaining any depth upfield, but immediately running across because of the speed that you're talking about a lot of these receivers having. So it's a difficult proposition for any corner and the Cardinals do need to get better on that.

But there's not much you can do. When a team lines up and knows you're gonna be in man cover, that's what they're gonna run, and when they don't do a lot of that. Look at how he performed against a dk Metcalf twice. Yes, he really did Shutdowncalf. So yeah, that that definitely has been the third rail and has been a vexing problem for Patrick Peterson. Here's the other problem for the Arizona Cardinals. Who's better right now in the depth chart? So you know, I've been talking about

it since basically mid season. I think the Cardinals are going round one cornerback. But if that guy isn't there and somebody takes that guy before the Cardinals draft. Viously, you know they might have to come up with another plane at corner. And if he does get a big offer from someone else, as you mentioned, then look out they're really thin at outside corner. We'll talk to Rob Frederickson about this at both the offense and the defense.

He's our special guests as we roll on a big red rage presented by satan Ford in Gilbert Murray and shotgun has the football short set, throws a default left side single coverage and it is pulled in by DeAndre Hopkins and he's got a touchdown. What a throw by Kyler Murray and what a catch. Great throw by Kyler Murray, but an even better retouchdown snapped to Murray and he keeps it himself running left, got a defender with him at the five breaks a tackle dives, ball comes out,

but he crossed the plane. Touchdown. Kyler Murray. Somehow subway found a way to get that pig across pater big time by Kyler Murray. Well that was four shadowing there, because Kyler Murray soon after was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week. That was that big win Week seven, at Seattle thirty seven thirty four, actually at home Sunday Night football as they got to win. That was the game where they trailed ten nothing twenty seven fourteen thirty four,

twenty four. And then between Kyler and d hop we heard there the thirty five yard touchdown, the one where they all looked at the sideline and then Kyler cracked the smile and threw the touchdown to a d Hops. So all part of that win. In the five and two start, budd the Cardinals end up losing five of the last seven, and so we're trying to assess and diagnose that. Ron Wolfley yours truly, Paul Calvisi and joined by former Cardinals linebacker Cardinals broadcaster Rob Frederickson here on

the Big Red Raging Rob. Earlier we remembered how Wolf's been a part of many a boot parade. Have you ever been in a boat parade just for you know, for facts off the top? Well, I grew up in Michigan. We have a lot of boat parades, Polly right, that's right on Lake Michigan, Lake Michigan, Bear Lake, Saint Joe River, wherever you want there on Friday, somewhere you can find it in Michigan tru Friday. You didn't answer the question, though,

I mean, honestly, how many boot parades have you been in? Zero? Zero? Oh? Here's the question. I don't believe that on campus at Michigan State. Here's the question. Come coming off, coming up? Okay, between Michigan State East Lansing and then coming off the Phoenix Open and then as a member of the Raiders who had the best parties? Was it in college? Was it the Phoenix Open or wasn't when you were a Raider? You know, I'm gonna plead the fifth, but I will say,

you know at Michigan State is educational institution of order. Okay, sure, get out of Yeah. When you guys are burning furniture on the front porch for warmth during frat parties, okay, burn the couch, PA, that's right, that's right. Well, it's all about you. Presented by santan Ford and gild We're talking to Rob Frederickson, former Cardinals linebacker, and we're talking

offense in this segment. So Rob, to you, what was the difference between the Cardinals, the high flying Cardinals offense that started five and two and then as we just documented the team the lost five is last seven and struggled more often than not down the stretch. Yeah. I love how you come to the linebacker former linebacker for

offensive diagnosis. But you know, honestly, PAULI I saw some things with the Cardinals offense this year that obviously there were some difficulties, but I think I saw some things

that they can really build on. And what I really liked what they did kind of in the middle of the season and then maybe they got away from it a little, but they started moving d Hop around a little instead of just standing him over to the left side stagnant and running three or four routes, starting to move him around, get him into the slot, motion him a little bit, do some crossing routes. Those are things

I think they to build on offensively next season. And another thing that Wolf and you and I have talked about this a lot that I saw a little little bit of glimpses of, but not enough as Kyler under center. Yes, you know, you know, get him under center. That opens up the offense so much in terms of the running game. You know, it allows that Kenyan Drake or Chase Edmonds to really get downhill and get into those zone reads.

But it also opens up that play action pass and those bootlegs, and and it allows Kyler Murray to really do what he's best at, and that's utilize time and space. And those are things I think that they can do going forward and maybe become a bigger part of the offensive game plan that I really m has me looking forward to twenty twenty one. You know what's interesting about this, I think the Arizona Cardinals have to pull back and

parachute in from thirty thousand feet on this one. When you speak offensive and you've got to come up with a philosophy, what are you offensively? What are you going to be? I think there was on a Cardinals to some degree got predictable in the second half of the season with all the things they do. Predictable to your point about lining up DeAndre Hopkins on one side of the field for the most part, Yeah, they started moving him around the same thing with Kyler Murray just being

too predictable where he's gonna be. Why not expand the football universe and move Kyler Murray under center? Why not put him in the gun, put him in the pistol and use these formations more and move him around. I think they became too predictable in the second half of that season. And it sounds like you agree with that, Freddie. Well, well, and not only that, Well, if I don't have a problem with the shotgun and there's some good things that come out of it, Oh yeah, the RPOs, But to me,

they were always just rrs. It was always just you know, am I going to hand it off or am I going to run as Kyler Murray. There was never that

pass option off of it. And to me, they need to expand on that, and you know, utilize Dan Arnold over the middle, but really you don't expand on that, and you're right, it become a little bit more unpredictable because we all know and Cardinal fans are probably tired and sick to death of the wide receiver screens and the jet sweeps and the run plays that bounce out to the outside. Those are hard to execute in the NFL with the speed of defenses and this their ability

to get off blocks. You have to be able to mix it up run and pass, play action and keep the defenses on their toes. See. I love that, Freddy. I love that because sometimes you listen when I talk about philosophy. What I'm saying is the Arizona Cardinals, I think have to say to themselves, and I'm sure they have. You know what, sometimes we've got to be able to line up and just be better than the guy across from us. Sometimes we have to just line up and listen.

The defense knows what's coming. You see this all the time, the Green Bay Packers. The Green Bay Packers, they're gonna run tackle zone. They're gonna run that stretch play. They are gonna run that because their offense is built on that, very much like the Rams offense was built last year, which Eric goff on that offense as well. We're gonna run the tackle zone and here it comes. You know it's coming. And sometimes you just got to expect your guys to go out and execute and be better than

the guy lined up over them. Yeah, and and well if I would, I would just add to that. Sometimes it's not even about being better. Um. I was watching the Super Bowl with my son and he said, yeah, Dad, the Kensee Chiefs can't run the ball. They're getting stuffed. And I said they need to keep trying, though, because that sets up things they don't they don't force those safeties to come down and then you can hit the play action over it. But they would. They went away

from it, right, Yeah, absolutely, Freddie, I'm not. I'm not. I'm talking about three yards, four yards, that's what it's But Bay Buccaneers were doing in Super Bowl fifty five. They were just running into the pile for the most part. And how many times have we seen that that pile suddenly gives way in the second half, in the third quarter, in the fourth it gives way. And you know again, I think it starts. It's got to start with a philosophy. I think Cliff Kingsbury and his staff, I know that's

what they're doing this offseason. They're coming up, what are we going to be? Where is our identity? Because I think identity matters. Rob Predictson our guest, It's all about You, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert and Rob. You brought up what I was going to sit and that's those two high safeties. Because we talked about it in November and December on Cardinals broadcast. Adjust to the adjustment, it seemed like a lot of game plans against Kyler and

Company involved the two high safeties. What did Todd Bowles do against Patrick Mahomes. I saw John Clayton just wrote an article about the Seahawks. That's exactly what defenses are doing to stimy Russell Wilson after he got off to an MVP start. To me, Rob, they got to figure out a way to do something about that two high safety look. And and to me, it's running the football. When they were in year the second half of Cliff Kingsbury's first year and the first half of his second year,

they were running the ball effectively. Now it's running the football and sticking with it. Like I said, even if it's not successful, even if it's only for two yards or three yards, to me, that's successful, yes, because that sets up so much else off the play action, and then the middle of the field is wide open. Okay, with the two eyes safeties you got, you got a guy like Dan Arnold, give me a break him against a middle linebacker that that should be a win every

every time. All right? So key, free agents, guys, you mentioned dan Arnold, How about Kelvin Beecham at right tackle? You know if he's not back, do you trust Josh Jones? Real quick as we go to break here, Is that a guy you would just plug and play the rookie You didn't get a whole bunch of snaps in his rookie year. Well, he didn't get a lot of snaps, but they drafted him where they did for a reason. And you know, I think he's a good young player.

That's a tough position though, and beacham At played pretty well this season, so you know, I don't know what's going to happen with him, but I'd like to bring him back. But I'm high on Josh Jones going into the future. Yeah, Paulie, They're gonna give Josh Jones, I think, every opportunity to win that job. But I'm with Rob on this. Calvit beach a man. You want to talk about a kind time sign. That was an excellent sign.

He did a very professional job at right tackle. Jared Sweezy, Max Garcia Free Agent's Course, Kenyan Drake will flip sides talk defense next with Rob Frederickson on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Staff the Wilson Cardinals bringing to pressure. It's picked up Wilson a time at the pocket now and trouble and sacked about four Cardinals in the backfield, but it's Isaiah Simmons of the rookie to get the Russell Wilson first to force a

fund shotgun snapped. Wilson straight drop back, steps up in the pocket, takes up running far side of the forty and drilled by Simmons at the forty one. Isaiah Simmons is ball at shotguns. Nat Wilson quick throw to the left, flat metcalf caught it at the thirty eight drop by Isaiah Simmons for a loss at the thirty seventyard line. Simmons has played terrific football tonight, the rookie really starting to get comfortable out there. You hurt the sack. He

had a team I ten tackles in that game. That was the week eleven game at the Seahawks Thursday Night football Wolf. I remember doing big red rage in the days after the draft where he went number eight overall to the Arizona Cardinals, and you said you had one big question and one only and that was just the level of physicality. Yes he would bring to the NFL. Did he answer that question, Chris? He did, BOLLI he did.

I saw everything I wanted to see from Isaiah Simmons and whether or not he's willing to stick his face into the fire. And it was just the fact that when he got the opportunity to play inside linebacker, and when they would line him up there the weekside inside, that he would come downhill and take on the block and stick his face in there, which he would, but it was also in the open field how he went about tackling. I think back to Cam Newton in that

New England Patriots game. Now listen, he got flagged on it, Paul. He got flacked on It's because he hit the quarterback too hard. Paul. I'm telling you right now he did. And would you say, Cam Newton running is a big man running. He is a big man running and Isaiah Simmons put the face right on him. I realized they threw the flag on it. I still think it was a clean hit by Isaiah Simmons. I dispute the call, but yeah, he answered all those questions. He heard. Rob

Frederickson there he is our guest on the Big Red Rage. Rob, you play the position, first round pick as a linebacker. You tell us your rookie season impressions on Isaiah Simmons. You know, it was a little of a long learning curve for Isaiah and and let's all cut him some slack because if you think back to his senior season in Clemson, most of his snaps, the majority of his snaps were spent in the slot, covering receivers or at the safety position. Yeah, he didn't he wasn't up around

the line of scrimmage the majority of time. So, um, I give him some slack, you know, especially early on, it was it was a it was a tough learning experience for him. And you know, and I think he was kind of down on himself, but he dug himself out of that, and the second half of the season he really came on the light. The light bulb kind of turned on and and like wolf, like you said, he you know, when he's when he's getting to the ball carrier, he's coming with some malice. And I love that.

So if your vance, Joseph rob is he automatically plugged in? Now speaking of versatility and flexibility, is he automatically replacing de Andre Campbell? And you're leaving him there for the entirety of games because we saw him inside, we saw him on the edge, we saw him at slock corner. We saw him at deep safety this year. Is he now officially an inside linebacker after Devandre Campbell? We expect

to leave, you know, after one year. One of the biggest indicators to whether or not you're going to be a good pro in my opinion, is that leap from your first year to your second year. That's where you see the biggest growth. And I think you're going to see it from Isaiah Simmons in my opinion, Paulie, he's too good of a player to ever be on the sideline. Honestly, he's too good of a talent, he's too good of an athlete, and he's fast. And this league the way

it is right now, you have to be fast. Speed kills. Isaiah Simmons has it. He has to be on the field all the time. So okay, now that's that question. There are other questions obviously on the defensive side of the ball, like defensive line. Jordan Phillips, you know, underwhelming season to say the least. What about Corey Peters in your estimation, here's a guy, a veteran. We know his value on the field. In the locker room, there could be cap restrictions where do you think he rates in

terms of importance for the Cardinals. Well, I mean, of course, we all love Corey Peters and you know I'd love to have him. The rookies that we signed last year, Rashad and Lawrence and like you foe to Um, you know, those guys have to step up now. They have to step up. I don't know if Corey Peters is going to be back, don't. I don't know that situation. Zach Allen's another guy. Um, you know, he's had some injury issues, got to stay on the field. Those are those are

just you know, there's some depth with his defensive line. Yeah, we have a couple of possible free agents, but those are guys that you know, have to step up and be consistent and be available. More than anything, they have to be available and we have to be able to rely on them. You know, I thought Paul two as well. I thought Advanced Joseph did an excellent job as a defensive coordinator. I know nobody wants to hear that out there because everyone looks at our defense and thinks the

defense for the Arizona Cardinals. It stinks when actually we all know what Advanced Joseph was dealing with last year once again, you've got no Chandler Jones. Would you say that's a big important part to your defense. Yeah, there's no doubt about that. Robert Alford, Robert Alford for two years now, Robert Alford was the best corner opposite of Pat P since Pat P has been here. I mean that he is the best corner from a skill from

a talent perspective. He's the best they've ever had opposite of Pad P. And the guy hasn't played in two years because the two freak injuries in training camp right now. If they can get him back, if they can get Jayalen Thompson back on a regular basis, Polly, I loved Freddie. What did you see from Jayleen Thompson? Because I loved what I saw from this kid. Loved him. And you know what I think is starting mate, their safety mate,

Buddha Baker. It's like osmosis. It just wears off on people and you're you're like, you know, when they showed that film Wolf on Monday, I don't want I don't want to see Buddha Baker flying to the ball and me kind of you know, kind of getting there. No, uh, and I think I think Buddha Baker has been good for Jalen Thompson because Jayalen Thompson, to me, has far exceeded any expectation. I really love him as a safety.

And let me just say this quickly. Right here, the Arizona Cardinals defense number ten in passing yards per game allowed, Number ten in passing yards per game a lot, number seven in passing yards per play a lot POULI. You put those two things together right there, you're a top ten team. Now listen, it's not because teams decided to run the ball against the Arizona Cardinals. They did that,

there's no doubt. But when you're number seven and passing yards per play allowed as well, that says you're buttoned up. You know what is you're doing. You don't have a bunch of receivers running wide open in this secondary and there's some good coverage and some good tackling that is going on there. It's one of the reasons why the Arizona Cardinals were number fourteen in defensive quarterback rating. Now listen, I can tell you right now, I know that quarterback

rating matters because the top ten. Every year you look at the top ten names that are in quarterback rating every year. Guess what, they're the best quarterbacks in the NFL. It's funny the way that works. So that tells me there's some merit there that it's a good indicator as to how a human being is playing the quarterback position in the National Football League. Flip it over on the defensive quarterback rating. The fact that Arizona Cardinals were number fourteen,

I think that would shock a lot of people. Number fourteen in the league. No Chandler Jones, as I said, No, Jalen Thompson for the most part. Of course, he was in and out of the lineup all year long. Isaiah Simmons, he didn't have a position for him, basically trying to figure it out. I think this defense is going to be much better in this coming season. Right Who's and I'm sorry, probably go ahead now say who's opposite of Chandler Jones. You know right now, Hassan Reddick Marcus Gold

both going to be unrestricted free agents. I fear Hassan Reddick is gonna give big money from at least one team out there. I know a lot of mock dress have the Cardinals going edge rusher? What do you think should happen at the spot opposite Chandler? Well, I think you know, obviously you're gonna have to wait and see what happens with Hassan Reddick. You know, and back to wolves earlier point about Van's Joseph, I mean you lose Chandler Jones, Hassan Reddick steps up, guard deck steps up huge.

I mean you you got so many pressures and sacks from players from different positions in different alignments last year. To me that that was awesome. Um, but you're right, Paul, you know that that is an area of need for the Cardinals that at that outside pass rush. And if it's not Hassan Reddick, who's it going to be. Are we're gonna address it free agency or is it going to come into draft? I don't know. I saw the mock draft that you're talking about, Polly, and they're talking

about in the edge rusher. We'll see. But to me, last year, what Vance Joseph did with what he was dealt, it was pretty awesome. Well, if you're talking about one unit that approved year over year, that past defense wolf because you know, on a liability that wasn't twenty nineteen. Yes, Polly, it's not just that either. It's listen, Chandler Jones. Would you say Chandler Jones was productive, Paul, It's very productive, right, Chandler Jones. You could make the argument he's the best

edge guy. I thought he was the best edge guy in the National Football League. When you look at Chandler Jones and his productivity right now, when you've got that kind of force coming off the edge, it makes the offense more predictable, Paul. It makes the offense more predictable

because it makes their protection schemes more predictable. And when you make the protection schemes more predictable, now all of a sudden vance Joseph can scheme with better authority in that regard ass to what kind of pressure packages or blitz packages you want to bring, because you can almost anticipate what kind of protection you're going to get with Chandler Jones on the field. Take him out of the equation now, all of a sudden, it's a little bit diceier. Hey,

and look and think about this too. Chandler Jones was out with a with a torn bicep. It's not like he did something to as a kill his tenant or his knee or something. He's going to be able to fly around. Okay, he's going to be back, and he's going to be he's gonna have a chip on his shoulder. I promise you that. And he's in a contract here, So we go, you know, way by the way, Rob,

as he go to break here real quick. If it comes down to edge rush or a cornerback in that first round, is there a position you value more cornerback? On to me, two positions of that value the most cornerbacks and offensive tackles. He can never have too many of them. And I don't I don't know what the position. I don't know what situation is going to be with Pat p but we need two studs on the outside.

Let Byrne Murphy be awesome in the middle in the slot, because I think that's where he's found a good home. Agreed Freddie So not only a guy who played nearly a decade in the NFL, former first Trump picks, so every snap of the Cardinals this last year, but he's also been in a boat parade. So that's good. Wolf's got the boot parade, Rob Frederickson has the boat parade. So we have all angles covered Freddie. We appreciate it here on the Big Red Range. Love you guys, thanks

for having me. We continue all presented by satan Ford and Gilbert We are satan Ford five Gold, three to go. Someone who's run on the field, some guy with a fraud and now he's not being chased. He's running down the middle of a forty arms in the air and a victory salute. He's pulling down his pants. Put off your pants, my man, call up boast pants. He's being chased.

It up thirty. He breaks a tackle from us the twenty down the middle of the ten, five side of the one, and they converge on him at the goal line and the players with him time hips at the other end of the field of looking at him and shaking their head and saying, why, oh why is this taking place in a Super Bowl? Some guy who was that guy on Super Sunday That is the great Kevin

Arlan on Westwood One. See on TV they ignore it Ron Wolfley, but on the radio call you get some great play by play, whether it's Kevin Harland or own day pass. You know when there's that guy out on the field and then eventually he gets taken down by security. You know, why not incorporated into the game action, Paul, he doesn't add habit at cal Berkeley all the time. Well, that guy was on campus, actually was the naked guy, and somehow he got away with that for a couple

of best I'm sorry, Paul. They actually got naked and then sat in trees. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and they were up there for about two years. Actually, those people so with the excrement buckets. But we won't go there. Okay, I just just do it, I mean, stop it, just I mean, what kind of show you're running here? Presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. So there you go. That was one moment from the super Bowl that suffered some

of the worst TV ratings in a long time. And you know what, I just think Kansas City's coaches just struggled at times to make adjustments. They look more confused than those backup dancers for the weekend at super Bowl halftime. I just didn't understand, Wolf. And if you're asking me, and I'm glad you did even though you didn't. If we learned something from super Bowl fifty five, I think it's the following that it's not just a passing league.

Your past pass pass. It's defense and balanced offense still wins. Yes, Paula, you're right about that, the balanced offense. And not only that, Paul, can I also say, I think it's a little bit of how you run the ball as well. It's not just running the football, it's also how you run it as well, I think. And I was talking to Rob about this Freddie of course Rob Frederickson on the show joined us earlier, and talking to him about sometimes, Polly, you got to line up and just be better than

the guy acrossroom. Sometimes you've got to put the expectation on your offensive lineman that we're not going to deceive the defensive front. We're not going to trick them, We're going to truck them. We're going to move them off the line of scrimmage. And sometimes you've got to put that onus, I think, on your offensive lineman. But man, Super Bowl fifty five to me, Polly, it came down to three possessions in that second half by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The two possessions at the end of the

third quarter and then the first possession into the fourth quarter. Polly, they ran the ball fifteen times. They ran the ball fifteen times in that situation, nine times, Polly. They were in a power personnel group where they brought a sixth offensive lineman, Joe Haig. They brought him off the sideline and put in there. Nine times of those fifteen times they ran the ball. It was twenty two and twenty

three double ball. Okay, I mean we'd see that. I mean that is Bruce arians, that is Byron Left, which that's the play they ran, and they sucked the beating heart of the Kansas City Chiefs right out of their chest. If there was one play in the BA Arsenal that managed to own a great Seahawks defense back in the day, that was it wasn't It wasn't that their go to remember. I mean, they were up there and they didn't even

have a great offensive line at that point. Of that point in time, BA went up there and they said, you know what, we're gonna run twenty two and twenty three double paul. They ran at twenty three times twenty three times. Now, listen, it wasn't like they were gashing the Seattle Seahawks either. That's back when they were the Legion of Boom. They had an excellent defense. They weren't gashing them. They were running it into the pie because the play action is what made it so effective, coming

off of running the ball like that. And look, you've known offensive line in your whole life. Your brother was an outstanding offensive lineman, super Bowl winning offensive lineman with the Steelers. And you don't have to ask an offensive lineman twice to attack. They love to come off the ball and they love to take it to a defensive front. So you know, you get a lot of buy in from offensive lineman when you do that as well. And then conversely, when Kansas City had the ball right, there

wasn't much of a run game. And look what happened. Look at the Tampa pressure on Mahomes twenty nine of fifty six dropbacks. He got harrassed. Oh you know me right now, I don't. I don't question play calling. I really don't. These guys are the best of the best. These guys know what they sit around all week or for two weeks. When you're playing in the Super Bowl and you've come up with a plan as to what you're gonna do to attack this defense, they're the best

of the best. But I thought that Kansas City Chiefs coaching staf offensively failed to realize they had two backup tackles again, Shack Barrett and Jason Pierre Paul. Do you know how difficult that you had to run the ball to keep them honest on the edge. And when they showed the Kansas City Chiefs that they weren't going to run the ball, they came after them. Hey, the only way, at least the best way to beat an elite quarterback

is to get after that quarterback. And they did and it was enough even though Patrick Mahomes made some amazing singular plays. Guess what the Tampa Bay Bucks get their first Super Bowl win in eighteen years. Will come back and wrap up this edition of the Big Red Rage, presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert, Hi. Everybody out, but to call everybody out, it's the first period, a second period, a third bid, a fourth period. Round. This is the curry. Let's go just keep running and pack gunn and look

at that. There's gonna be some holes, creative, we just work. We're getting a little distordered right now, but we're gonna be fine. Just gonna have a little more patience and it'll be there. There's a glean men there's a gleam. Let's get the gleam. Oh, you've got Neil blocking for LT one more time. You've got rivers under Finner left hash from the seven yard line of the Denver Broncos and a hand off to Tomlin. Finner left fund and he will gallop into the end. Carter, I believe he

is the finest running back to everywhere uniform. That's how I feel, And I don't want to embarrass him. But for all the skills he has as a player, they pail by comparison to the person. Well, the feeling was mutual. Ladinia Thomason calling his former coach Marty Schottenheimer quote the best coach I've ever had. That comes from a Hall of fame running back in LT. As we remember in salute. Marty Schottenheimer passed away this week at age seventy seven.

He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in twenty fourteen, the eight winning his coach in NFL history with Cleveland, Casey Washington and the Chargers and Wolf. I'm guessing your pass crossed in Hawaii. Probably you know what, Paul. They did. I remember the nineteen eighty six Pro Bowl and it was Mike Ditka for the NFC Ditga of course, and the Chicago Bears coaching staff against Marty Schottenheimer and his coaching

staff for the AFC. And it was amazing because Paul, we didn't even we just walked through to all week long. We never even put the pads on Ditka on a Thursday, which is a big practice week of course, when you're getting ready to play a game on Sunday. Thursday was huge. And we went out there and Dittga called everyone after five minutes of being on the field, called everyone up and said, you guys know what you're doing, and yeah,

a way, yeah, coach, way, we know we're doing. Get out here, I got a tea time in five minutes. Sent us home, Paul, send us home. I mean that That's the way we were practicing all week long. And the AFC, Paully and Marty Schottenheimer. Schottenheimer put him in pads. Oh they were Wednesday and Thursday, Polly, they were out there on the field and pads and they were hitting.

Had a pro bowl, you know, now again it was more of a thought drill, but still they had the pads on and they were hitting, and you know what, Polly we beat him. We beat him. The NFC beat him, right wow, well you know kicked in. You guys need the extra cash at the end of that Pro Bowl. That was Marty. That was what Marty was all about. We're gonna run the ball, We're gonna be a physical team,

We're gonna bash your face it. We're also remembering and saluting Pedro Gomez, who we learned on Super Bowl Sunday. He passed away at age fifty eight, and for all of us in the valley, who remember and I go back with Pedro all the way back to the dback's first spring training. I mean, as I said on Cardinals Underground the podcast this week, Pedro Gomez was multimedia before

there was even the term multimedia. Great beat writer, columnist, ESPN reporter, made the transition to broadcasting, TV analyst, and anybody who met him realized, just like what Marty Schotenheimer said about LT he was as great a person as he was in the media, he was an even better man overall. You know what, Paula was going through a rough patch in my life, as you well know, way back can hear the turn of the century and if

Pedro was writing for the Republic back then. He treated me with more respect than I had for myself at that point in time, and for that, I'll always remember Pedro that way, and what a pleasure was to know Pedro, and all our condolences to his family. That'll do it for this edition to the Big Read A special thanks Jim Almnro, Cody Fincher, our special guest Rob Frederickson for Ronmoltley on Paul CALVC. This has been Big Red Rage

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