Big Red Rage - Gardeck Looks To Build On Defensive Debut

State Farm and buy Arizona Cardinals podcasts. Visit Hacy Cardinals dot com, Slash podcasts, The Rods, Rising Guard, Gimperaturizing Vision, Flurring Rage, taking it over. Here's Paul KELVC. Get the popcorn ready, It's gonna be a show and Ron will flip. It doesn't get any better than that. Unleash the far and I quote a member of the Arizona Cardinals, a

member of the all decade team, Ron wolf Lee. You said earlier today that the Cardinals attend to go to Big d to Monday night football where we don't expect it to be a problem. The old byoe bring your own energy, not on Monday night. And Pat Pe was the one who said they are going with the intent to quote put the world on notice that this team is for real. Quote how about that boy? For a stated game plan? It's pretty strong right there, PAULI is

it not? I mean I love it. Yeah, bring that kind of energy, go ahead, And now you've got to go out and play. And I'm not saying that he's

not going to do that. I am saying, though, if you're going to say things like that, well you better go out in ball, right because you know what a lot of the skeptics and doubters and haters are saying right now that you beat the Jets, correct, and with the Niners struggling, and you have to win against Washington that you know, the Cardinals three wins him out to some sort of false positive. And now without Chandler Jones.

We heard what Dan Orlovski said this week on ESPN minus Chandler Jones, and I quote again, this takes a contending team out of the mix. Yeah, just Paully. Honestly, though, going back to what you just said right off the top about Pappy right there, it reminds me of being out on the field, Paul. And sometimes when you were out on the field, you know what you would do PAULI if you felt like you were dragging, that you were lagging a little bit, that you were you know,

I've got to pick it up here. A lot of times, Paul, you'd start talking yourself. No, no, no, you'd start talking to the opponents. You start dare I say, trash talking, because you knew one thing. If I'm going to start talking, if I'm gonna start flapping it, I better back it up. And you would. I would do that, Paul, And I knew there were other guys that would do it as

well if they felt like they were dragging a little bit. Now, listen, I'm not saying that's what Pat Pe was doing right there, but it reminds me of Man, if you're gonna say something, you better go back it up. And that really gets me jacked up, because Pat Pe, more times than not has backed it up. What is the degree of difficulty now minus Chandler Jones in your mind, the guy they traded four in twenty sixteen and has led the NFL

and sacks and forced fumbles ever since. How do you quantify the loss of Chandler Jones to the biceps injury for the rest of the year. Yeah, First of all. You just you can't. You're not going to replace him with another player. You're not going to do that. Now, how are you going to go about your business? I don't know. I do know that scheming pressure is a big part of why Vance Joseph is a defensive coordinator

in the National Football League. You look at their third down defense right now, they're still very very good in elite third down defense overall. Well, now they're going to have to put that third down Moniker. They're gonna have to put it on the line because Dalton and the Dallas Cowboys with all those weapons, they're coming. And I'm telling you right now, Andy Dalton is a focused dude. So Chandler Jones, They're gonna miss him, Big Paul. There's no way to replace him, But I think the one

way you can try is via scheme. Well, the Cardinals, to your note there, did check the three big boxes fans Joseph wanted to go ahead and see in this win against the Jets, third down, red zone and tackling they were all back. And the Cardinals points per game, which now is a defense, is top five in the NFL. Check it out. After a thirty to ten win against the Jets. Of course you want a number. How about the two sacks in ten snaps by Dennis Gardek who

was our very special guest tonight. And it's all presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. It is the big red Rage. We are santan Ford shotguns and half the Kyler murt from the pocket, deep pass left side going for Hopkins, one handed cats and a touchdown. DeAndre Hopkins was blanketed by a jet, but it don't matter. Hopkins makes the catch and the Cardinals man just put the Jets to sleep.

Oh can you taste it right there? Maybe the fifty fifty balls to the left of Kyler Murray and a perfect passde hop That is big time with a one hand snack, perhaps the best all around receiver in the NFL. Great hands, great vision, grade speed, six grabs of buck thirty one, that thirty seven yard touchdowns set up by a forty five yard chunk throw. DeAndre Hopkins taking his skills to the big stage in the Arizona Cardinals against

the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night. And by the way, Ron Wolfley eighteen of the top twenty rated TV shows in twenty twenty, R NFL broadcasts, so you know everyone's going to be watching. Everyone wants to have a big game. It is the showcase, there is no doubt about it. This is the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford. Moments away, we'll be talking with Dennis Gardak, one of the big stars of

the game. But give us your thoughts on and DeAndre Hopkins and you guys mentioned in the play call there, you and Dave pass about the fifty fifty ball is back in the Arizona Cardinals offense. Yeah, Polly, I thought that was when you get down to the tactical level.

I thought that was one of the big pluses of this game for the Arizona Cardinals, just the fact that Kyler Murray took some shots down the field on what clearly we're fifty fifty balls to DeAndre Hopkins and it paid off in a big, big way for the Cardinals. That chunk throw. I want to go back to the forty five yard chunk throw. Not the touchdown Bali, but the forty five yard throw that he happened to throw first. I can tell you right now, Polly, his eyes were

fantastic on this thing. You could see that he was anticipating a roll a safety rolling away from beyondre Hopkins, and suddenly that anticipation happened on the snap and you could almost see Kyler Murray's eyes go wide because he knew he had singled up on the backside. He had singled up beyondre Hopkins and because of that, and now all of a sudden, he's throwing the ball up on a fifty fifty ball and guess what happened. D hop came down with it. I think that's where you start

on the tactical level. And then the fact that he did it again on a thirty seven yard touchdown, it tells me this is something we're going to see a whole lot more of going forward. Man. I like hearing that about Kyler as well, that he's throwing with anticipation, because we know he has everything else in the skill set. When he's thrown with anticipation and then the accuracy is with it. And we saw that against the Jets and DeAndre Hopkins in that final touchdown drive was a beneficiary.

In fact, here's d hop on those big catches. You know cover one, you know one hot safety which means, you know, meet one on one with a cornerback and you know, I like my eyes and I was just you know, telling Kylie just trust me. The guy was off, the corner was off. You know, he wasn't close to me. But you know I was told to, you know, give me a chance, and you know, let's work on some things. See that Baldi that is so beautiful right there out of d Hop. He saw it too, the safety rotating

to the middle of the field. That's what you hear when he's saying cover one, right, he's talking about man free. He's talking about man across the board with a free safety in the middle of the field. That's what Kyler saw. He saw that safety rotate to the middle of the field of that man. D Hop was one on one on the backside. Identifying those moments and throwing it up is something that I'm looking forward to because we're going to say a whole lot more greatness from d Hop.

All right, so hit zoom out. Have we not seen this before? Long time Cardinals fans. Once upon a time, it was Kurt Warner to Larry Fitzgerald, if he's single covered, he's open. Are we back to that stage? In this relationship between a quarterback and receiver. I think so, Polly,

I really do. Hopefully we're gonna see this again. Listen, you watch that on film, and I guarantee you in that tape room where they're watching it, they were going over and over and over that very play right there, the dynamics, the point that actually set up that throw, and then all of a sudden, what you did in going back and looking at it right now. It's just

gonna cement in Kyler Murray's head. The fact that when this guy is covered as long as he's singled up, and if you go back and look at the thirty seven yard touchdown, he wasn't singled up. There was a safety also that came over the top and he's still caught the ball with one head. So to me, yes, this is gonna cement in Kyler's head. You gotta take these shots. It's part of our offense. It's who we are. That's exactly what Kurt Warner had to learn with Larry

and learned. That's the operative word, because he's told us on the Big Red Rage before. It was a process. Because it's so different for a quarterback to think, oh, there's a guy all over him, I'll throw it anyway. So that trust has to build. Based on those last two catches, it's definitely starting to build between those two.

How about the Cardinals offense in general? One hundred ninety six total net yards, a pretty good mix of passing, three sixty nine, one hundred and twenty seven Russian, especially late going. It got a little more vertical that run game, twenty eight first downs. Yet they definitely left points and yards on that field, did they not? Yeah, they did, Polly. But once again I saw an improvement right here. I'm really encouraged by what I saw. Listen, the protection of

Kyler Murray. Start there. The protection of Kyler Murray after five games this season, it's not even close to what it was a year ago. Do you know how many sacks the Arizona Cardinals had after five games last year, Paully, I think it was like two dozen, wasn't it was twenty one sacks? Paul? Stop and think about that right there. The protection of Kyler Murray was so much better and has been so much better through five games. Right now, they have eight sacks that they've given up. He's only

been hit thirteen times. That's number two in the National Football League. Number one has been hit nine times the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, number two, the Arizona Cardinals, and Kyler Murray thirteen hits on Kyler Murray. Plus they may have found their rushing attack in that fourth quarter. I am greatly encouraged by what I'm seeing with the offense. How about as a four time Pro bowler on special teams the Pro Bowl Alternata special teams a year ago

is our guest. Next, a guy who came in had two sacks, two memorable sack dances. The guy that Cliff Kingsbury says said is hell on wheels on the scout team that is all straight ahead on the big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert We are satan Ford. Dennis Gardak, by the way, is playing Chandler Jones position right now at right outside linebacker the second down and ten back to throw a flack oh sacked by guardck.

Oh my goodness, what a move by Dennis Gardak. The Barbarian came inside hair flying blacko in the pocket, gonna get hit and sacked. Dennis Gardak got him again. And then Dennis Gardak doing an interesting sack dance where he just kind of bounced back and forth on his feet with his hands out, palms up. I don't know what he was asking for. What is good guardeck? Dennis Gardak got up and did a little barbarian dance around the fire.

What's that same dance? Like nobody's watching? Yeah? Well, if I'm sitting there in New York, there's not a fan in the stance, every seat is empty, and there's Dennis Gardak, not one, but two sack dances like nobody's watching. He enjoyed it. I know I enjoy did Yeah, and there was the TV audience obviously watching as against the Jets Jets, Jets Jets. He went sack sack in ten snaps and he joins us now on the Big Red Rage, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Dennis. How are you doing?

How's this week been for you so far? Hi, guys, thanks for having me. Um, It's been a funky week. Normally I fly pretty pretty low under the radar, but things have been blown up a little bit, you know what. I absolutely Dennis Man welcome. First of all, let me say that, but also I just wanted to get your overall opinion as to this season, how it's going for you, the preparation. Just can you quantify how weird this dynamic

has been this season has been with a pandemic going on. Yeah, it's definitely been strange, especially you know, going all the way back to the certainty of is this season happening kind of in the off season, just being able to block out all the noise and just like you've got to prepare like it's going to happen whether it does or not. You know, you've got to be prepared up until you know all the new protocols and everything, and

now playing without fans. It's weird how how different things are yet how similar they are, if that makes any sense, because at the end of the day, it's still ball, right eleven on eleven. A lot of guys say, how it's the routine that the Cardinals have been able to adhere to unlike a lot of other teams. But it's that routine that actually helps bring the only semblance of

normalcy here in twenty twenty. Would you agree with that? Yeah, one, when you're kind of like locked into your day to day and it feels so similar to how it's been in years past, you do kind of lose touch of everything outside and how how strange things still are. Okay, so Dennis, I'm not talking about the pandemic. I'm talking about your season personally. How do you think? No, no, no, I'm talking now. I want I want you to answer about your season personally. Now, how do you think it's going.

I think we're up to We're up to a good start. Um, preparation, it's been the same as far as you know, preparation, everything going. Um. The team captain was a was a pretty big honor this year. Um, did that surprise you? Did that surprise you? Oh? It did? It did quite a bit. Um, just because I'm not I'm not a

very big vocal guy. I try to try to lead through my examples and uh, maybe a couple of one on one situations if I feel like like somebody needs help with something or I'm more of a one on one type of guy than getting up in front of the team and being like, hey guys, we need to do this, this and this. That's just not my style. So, um, it did surprise me quite a bit. Did you take a moment to appreciate it, to let it resonate and soak in that your peers recognized you. Was that meaningful

to you, Yeah, definitely that. I think that's the highest honor of getting the recognition from the guys that you see every single day and them kind of understanding the grind and the struggle of things and recognizing you as a leader among them. It's all about you. Presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Dennis Gardek as our guest, and you talk about the preparation. We never expected Chandler Jones

to go down, yet there you were. How prepared did you feel to get your first ever regular season snaps on defense? I think it was going to be a shock regardless of when the reps came, just because you know who I had in front of me. But I felt very prepared. I go against DJ Humphries every single day in practice. This is my third year in the league, so I did have some sort of comfort out there, familiar with all the guys on our side of the ball. So it was kind of a mixed bag of emotions.

But when the ball is snapped, you play ball. You know what's so weird about it, Dennis, I see you more as an off the ball guy. I see you more as a week side inside guy. I don't really see you as an edge guy. How about you? What is your preference? I see myself as an edge guy. I do understand that that physically I'm not quite as large as those guys up there. But I like rolling

off the ball. I think it's different seeing everything from from one side as opposed to being off the ball and having things kind of coming at you from both sides. So I like playing from the edge and being able to play fast, and I like putting my forehead on people, so I get to do that up on the line. What is good, right guardek? What it's good? Brother? Speaking of it? Was the second sack you set up with

the bullrush, didn't you? I did? So. Every football is a physical sport, so I try to set everything up off of contact. I want to. I want to get into an offensive environment first before we're gonna figure figure out how I'm gonna get around them. Okay, tell me about your dance. Okay, can you tell me about those dance? I mean, did you practice that dance? Dennis? Tell me the truth? I mean, everything on Sunday has been rehearsed before, so obviously obviously the second one had been done before.

That's kind of my go to move m when I'm feeling the music I practice when I'm at home listening to music, making my dinner. That's kind of that's right there. Well, I was, you know what. I'm so proud of you for actually admitting that on the air. Well. Earlier today, Patrick Peterson was turned into a judge for like Dancing with the Stars, okay, and he was asked a rate your sack dances, starting with the second one he started with you called hitting the Strobe, and then the first

one you titled Turned the ConA. And so here's Pat p and his rankings. The one he did like this, I actually liked that one. That one's actually pretty cool. I would have gave that one seven. But the other one with the jet thing, I really wasn't digging out him. Give that at three, all right? And then you you did the math with the media day. Go ahead, reiterate what you said earlier about how the equation you came up with. Yeah, just some quick math there. Seven and

three is ten. So I'm taking a ten out of ten. We're not gonna we're not gonna talk about the ten points I didn't get we're talking about the ten I did. Yes, Yes, love it, love the creative math on that one. That's now to what degree? So they are rehearsed, they are premeditated, you have practiced them, Okay, because I was going to say it did look a little instantaneous spur of the moment. So going forward, what's your approach? I think I think the people have decided to hit the strobe is to

go to move nice. Yes, I think we're gonna make that a signature move now. So Dennis, I'm not trying to ask you any questions where you're going to give away inside information here, but is it safe to assume that you're continuing to receive a lot of reps on the edge coming up? Uh? Yeah, Well, I think it's going to kind of be a gradual process. M But I definitely think I've cracked the rotation um and when the reps come, I'm gonna run out there the same

way I ran out last week and give everything I got. Well, there's nothing like your first snaps und defense, your first two sacks on defense, and then of course there was the game ball that came with it. Let's go into the Cardinals locker room courtesy of asy Cardinals dot Com. There at five am when I walked through, all right to get breakfast works his ass off had two saxes today,

Dennis Garden, appreciate your boys. Appreciate it. They were calling for you to give a speech longer than your speech, so but I was feeling, you know, nobody likes to give an impromptu speech like that. Nobody likes to be in that position. So I was feeling for you there. Absolutely not. Yeah, I had to give an impromptu speech in my speech class and uh college, and it went about that. Well. That's, by the way, you and Cliff Kingsbury probably get along well because you're both early risers,

aren't you. Yeah, then getting a head start on your day kind of helps settle into into the routine and get me going for practice and get me ready for everything I need to do. You know what, Dennis, I think back to your rookie year and immediately I recognize the fact that you were going to be a ball or in particular in transition on special teams, a transitional technician bawling out, and I remember saying to you, hey, listen, you get year two rookie you get year two, you'll

get ten. And I think you're gonna get that big guy. And we're going to get into the special teams next, and we'll talk a little bit about his background. Well if you went to West Virginia, he started at West Virginia State. Or remember, if you can play, you will play. They will find you. Continue with Dennis Gardeck on the big red rate presented by satan Ford in Gilbert will snap it from the thirty six. Swiznowski stands at a

twenty two yard line and the punt is blocked. It was blocked by Ezekiel Turner, recovered by Gardak who gets up and runs at the fifteen and he's tackled at the ten. All the Cardinals their punt return went right through the forty nine ers protection with warm pastry. All that is sweet baby, right there, Zeke Turner getting the block. That is a huge play by the Cardinals special teams. And this should turn the momentum of this game. Who black,

who brought me? That's Prude Baker right there. He was all miked up for that. And you guys, that's right, Walfa. You guys called it that Cardinals are down ten nothing. Week one at the Niners Cardinals would not be three and two, I don't think right now without that block punt and the recovery by Dennis Gardeck, our special guest here on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Bird and no one has ever had to tell those guys, Buddha Baker, Zeke Turner or Dennis Gardeck by Oe,

bring your own energy. Those guys are always flying all over the field. And do you have to have that Dennis sort of in your DNA to play special teams. That's sort of one of those prerequisites because Wolf went to four Pro Bowls as special teamers and that's the way he played. Yeah, yeah, I think it's definitely a separate breed of player on special teams, and we're lucky to have a bunch of them on our team. You

know what I loved about special teams. If in fact aliens we're going to land on this planet and you wanted to show them what football was all about, you put on a kickoff cover reel. That's what you do right there, right Dennis. No more football of a play than kickoff. That's why every game starts with one. That's exactly right, and it's still it's still I think when they return it, it's still maybe the most physical play in football. Would you say that it is the most

physical play still in football? Uh, it's definitely the most high speed. I'm not going to say the most physical, pretty physical right when you say high high impact, right when you sigh when you say high speed, though, I think of impact as well. Yeah, and are you still trashing? You're able to trash dudes, I'd kickoff cover correct. Yeah, but there's not the wedge anymore. I feel like the wedge was just absolute. I know you. You had to be the wedge buster. Yes, yes, that's what I did. Oh,

there's no doubt about it. It's not nearly as brutal as it was. But you could still use your eyes and really host some dude, can't you. I mean, you just absolutely some pretty big collisions. Well, and Dennis, I mean, tell us about your love for the game of football, because you you talked of a little bit about it earlier today. When when you went to West Virginia State, you weren't thinking NFL, Right, when you went to the University as Sioux Falls, you weren't thinking NFL at least

at the big in that journey. So what was it that drove you? Oh? I think from high school it was kind of like if we're doing it like a relationship, it's more of like an infatuation where you're kind of in love with all the motions and kind of all the glitz and the glamour and running fast and hitting

hard and doing those kind of things. But as you kind of get to know football and you learn about it and you can find how much better you can be, and you're finding all these areas to improve and how a film steady plays a part into you know, preparing for a game and all that stuff. I just there's so many different things to work on. I just I love football and how it it takes every ounce of your focus and there's nothing else going on except for the man across from me. So yeah, I just love

that feeling and it's amazing. Well. Pat p today was asked about Dennis Gardak and he cited, among other things, just Dennis's love for the game. It doesn't matter where you come from, you know, and if you have love and passions for the game, you play with energy and with a tenacity. Everything should take care of yourself. So and Dennis pleased with those intangible So let me tell that he's a he's a grinder, he's a dogs you know. So it's hard to deny a guy that had that

type of character. You know. Andy Isabella told us a couple of weeks ago here in the Big Red Rage, Dennis that it took him a good part of his rookie year to really have that supreme confidence that he belongs, that he came from U mass and you know that it was a confidence thing for him initially. Did you ever go through that stage when you entered the NFL? Yeah, definitely. Uh, you know, even from rookie mini camp where I'm showing

up we're all technically in the same boat. But I went to Sue Falls and everybody was a big ten in Washington and all these big like I'll watch you guys on TV. My games were streamed on a computer. Um, So there's always kind of been that confidence thing of like I do I really have what it takes. And I think the biggest way for me to kind of

overcome that is to just lock into all right. This week during film study, we knew this, this, this and this I need to do this to be in good position to make my play, and then it really shouldn't matter who's across from me because I have all the things that I need to do in mind. There's no doubt about it, Dennis. I mean, honestly, you're thinking correctly right now right Are you willing to give more than your opponent? That is a question that I will ask you, Dennis.

Are you willing to give more than your opponent is willing to give? Yeah? Definitely, And I think I think that begins at the beginning of the week. That doesn't That doesn't just mean on Sundays run harder. It means that I did I do more throughout the week to prepare for you who I'm lined up across. Well, Coach Kingsbury has said your quote hell on wheels on the

scout team blowing up his offense during practice. So I don't know what you're like You're like during the week during practice, Dennis, but it definitely caught the attention to the head coach. That is the one. Yeah, I love. I mean, you know, and and look, we don't get to see practice, but I can envision based on what I just saw out there against the Jets with your motor and non stop, and you know coach is trying to run a few plays and he's got forty five

busting everything up in there. So that's good stuff. As we continue with Dennis Gardeck here on the Big Red Rage. By the way, you watch all episodes of Cardinals Flight Plan. You want to get more wired, you want to get more inside access, just go to YouTube dot com slash Hazy Cardinals YouTube dot com slash Hazy Cardinals will get into this a little bit more. And what exactly a straight ahead on Monday night and what that means against this Cowboys offense and Zekiel Elliott all next to the

Big Red Rage. Chase Edmonds in the backfoot with Murray third down in one of the twenty nine four receivers set shotgun snap. It's a run play right side, big hole Edmonds twenty five, twenty ten five touchdown, the inside zone being run and Chase Edmonds found the hole in to the house baby twenty nine the yard touchdown run on third down and one for Chase Edmonds. All four of Chase Edmonds touchdowns at Medlife twenty yards are longer. Yeah, it was straight out of the Giants game last year.

In fact, you guys want a Holy Conoli stat here on the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. Who leads the NFL in touchdown runs of twenty yards or longer over the last two years. Chase Edmonds he has five total. Christian McCaffrey, the all paro running back who's paid like a billion dollars, has four. Chase Edmonds has five. Wolf how about that? That is just absolutely stunning.

Bullie and Dennis Gardeck is our guests in the Big Red Right, what is it like to be in space against whether it's Chase Edmonds or another dynamic running back or skill guy? You tell me just what is that like as a defender be in space against some of these guys with all that athleticism here at the NFL level. Yeah. Well, me and Chase have already had this discussion. We were in off season training and you know there's obviously conversations or do you think you could tackle me in the

open field? And I said, look, if you got the ball in your hands, I'm gonna shoot my shot. Hopefully it's to my leverage. Somebody else is there to clean it up. I might get a hand on you. But I think you just got to play as fast as possible and make something happen quick. That way, you're not on ESPN Top ten. All right, Dennis, listen, No, I want to ask I want to get into Monday night football here, but I got to ask you this rapid fire. If you don't mind, let's rapid fire right here. Some

special teams questions. I want to clean this up from the last beautiful part of the program. Your favorite special team to play what is it? Kick off? Kickoff block? Okay, why explain that? Look, they just got to sit there and take it. And I love that that. I can just run full speed into you. You just got to sit there in two hand punch. That's a good That is an excellent answer right there. Okay. The energy that you bring. Is this something you talk to your teammates

about on special teams? Is this something that you, as a captain you talk to these guys about, or is it something they just know everybody in transition, everybody on special teams expects. Yeah. I think it's just something that's kind of understood. We're a pretty lively group and we're always feeding off of each other. So okay, I don't have the juice one place, somebody else and got it

and then I'm right there with him. Okay, So how much do you lobby Jeff Rogers if you say, hey, coach, you know what we can do this, pop this thing up, we'll cover this Kike and we'll stuff him inside the fifteen. How much do you get in Jeff Rogers face. I think he's a great coach, so I let him do

his thing, but I do I nudge gently. I think that would be kind of kind of the best way to put it is just hey, you know, I was thinking, you know, we've already got two inside the twenty one for a third, right, Well, we look at this money night game and let's start it always starts was stopping the run, right guys. And they have Ezekiel Elliott and he's top five in touches twenty two touches a game and without Dak Prescott. Now I'm guessing that's gonna go up.

So you need to figure out what do you do as a defense if your advanced Joseph minus Chandler Jones, and he said earlier today about Devon Conard's back practicing, that might be an option as son Reddick, Dennis Gardeck. You know Zach Allen can move out to the edge at times of act. Here's a vance Joseph earlier today the defensive coordinator. And how number forty five, our guest, Dennis Gardack figures in from day one in training camp. You know two last week, what you saw last week,

that's what training camp look like. I mean, he just rushed off the ash with speed and power and he's made play. So hopefully he can get better and better with more opportunities and help us, help us adds to our patch rush Dennis, do you think whoever's out there in that rotation the Cowboys are going to test you guys early and often. Absolutely, it's going to be a great test on Monday night. Talk a little bit about their offense, Dennis, talk about what you're seeing on tape

right now. In regard to Andy Dalton, I know he he only had eleven attempts after Doc Prescott went out, of course with the disocated ankle, but he played pretty well in the eleven at times. Yeah, that's a that's a veteran quarterback, so you got to respect him. He's been in the league a while. He definitely knows what he's doing. Obviously, Zeke's gonna Zeke's gonna do his thing, so we gotta we gotta make sure we can keep

him contained as well. How much you're looking forward to the big stage Monday night, that stadium, everything that's going to be part of the experience this coming Monday night. Yeah, it's gonna Like I said, it's gonna be awesome test of you know, we kind of have been isolated in these quarantine games and everything, and this is a Monday night, so it's got a totally different feel to it. And excited to see how the team responds. How does the

team feel right now? Being three and two on the season, right, Um, you're coming off a win where everybody expected you to beat the New York Jets, But the two weeks before that, Dennis for the most part, against the Lions and against the Carolina Panthers, there were a lot of people that thought, you guys went out there and disappointed. How is it going inside that locker room? How's it going in terms of everyone's mental condition? Being three and two on the season,

I think everybody's got the right mindset. We were definitely frustrated with the results the previous two weeks. But I don't think it really got to anyone so much that they're trying to do too much or or you know, trying to make something happened by themselves. Coach said, there's no fourteen point play, so we just got to go play our game once, not at a time. And it seems like everybody's locked in, focused and excited for every opportunity. How much do you keep in touch with your brother?

I'm thinking your phone probably blowed up right after you had the two sad game, And I know your brother plays minor league baseball, right Ian? He does? Ian? Yeah, we stay in contact quite a bit. He's helped me kind of throughout this whole process. I'm showing me the ropes of what the professional athlete life is like. Some things translate, somethings do not translate from baseball to football. Yeah, sure, dentist, do you want ten years? Do you want ten years

in this league? Absolutely? Would you go twelve? I'm here for as long as football will have me. Do you have any idea, dentist, what you'd want to do when you're done? I mean, do you allow yourself to think about that? This is always fascinating to me, especially when the guys in year three of his career, do you allow yourself to think about what it is you want to be when you're done playing ball? Oh yeah, I actually do let myself kind of daydream a little bit.

I wanted to start within our own facility, so I actually had a conversation the other day with the nutritionist on how much it would be to be on their staff. But my go to right now is athletic trainer. I'm actually an athletic trainer in training. That is a self proclaimed title. Self proclaimed So I, uh, why do you say self what? I'm learning the technical terms for it. I learned to learn how to spell adema. Wow, all right, let her rip. Let's let's hear you're totally my leg right. Oh,

here we go. Get it's a spelling bee. Let's hear it adema. Oh shoot, no, I gotta go through my text. I had to. I had to google it. Oh my goodness, mad You know what, honestly I respect that because Wolf Wolf spend ten years in an NFL training room and all he did was rip other guys. You're in an NFL training room and you're actually learning about being a trainer. So I respect that about you, Dennis. Yeah. I was always asking questions and I always get kind of a

a questioning kind of like how did you know? Like what do you actually know what you're saying right now? Or do you are you just like a parrot and you're repeating words that you've heard before. It's a mixture of both. I'm not gonna lie, um, but that's what that's what passes the time in the training room. Oh, mas, Tom Reid and company asked you to leave the training room, maybe become a nuisance at times, be honest. Oh, one

hundred percent. Yeah. I think I posted on my Instagram and training camp they had me tied up with an ace bandage wrap. They um, take me to a chair. That is so you're not you're you're you swear to me you're not pulling my leg in regard to being an athletic trainer. No, I'm trying to absorb as much information as I can and I think, uh, I think I got the ability to do it, you know. Yeah, okay, right,

it's good once again. The tennis. I mean, I think I'm thinking a code which maybe you know, maybe getting in the front office or something like that. I didn't think about what a trainer, dude, that's cool though. I loved that. I think I'm a helper and I think I think those training guys they do a great job helping us. And uh, that's something I want to do someday. I mean the podcasting an MVP vote during twenty and twenty, the year of the pandemic. Tom Reid, Cardinals lead trainer

gets my MVP vote right now. Well, there you be a Dennis. Thanks Dennis Brush, God bless you man, and you're gonna get twelve. That's the goal. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me, all right, thanks days there you go, Dennis Gardeck team Captain Pro Bowl alternative year ago on special teams. We will come back and wrap up this addition to the big red rage percent of by Santan Ford and Gilbert we are satan Ford not good job

right there? The Arizontle Cardinals rush for they played quarters and wolf a guy just runs onto the field and starts stripping and it gets drilled at the thirty five yard line by a security guard. A cowboy fan I think just ran out of the field, took a shirt off. I think he was going for the drawers as well, and then he got roasted at the thirty five yard line by a security guard. Well that's the way you knocked the screws off right there. That security guard sign

them off. They tackled them, and the fan did the splits on the thirty five Did you see that. I think he ripped his groin out. I think the security guard might get a fine. That was against a defenseless receiver, so to speak. Taken down anyway you can. Yeah, he's whipping all right. Oh that was an all timer, great call, all time moment. Not so good for the fan, the Cowboys fan, we should add, I'd say fifteen years on the sideline. I've seen my share down there. Some guys

reached the field. It's the guys who do not reach the field who get pummeled near the white stripe or beyond, who decide to engage some of the security guys. Always a bad move, trying to decide against that. Life is all about decisions. Not only do you get wiped out PAULI, but just the fact he did the splits, like media and the bullets growing rip that thing right out. It's the big Red rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert And that's fitting because the Cardinals are playing the Cowboys.

They're playing on Monday Night. It's fitting because you know, that's the good way Dennis Gardek plays. He was our special guest and you got a Cardinals team going back to Texas. Before we get into all that, let's hear from Patrick Peterson and just his thoughts earlier today, and he was asked about the big stage of Monday Night,

our first time on the national stage. It's going to be a great outing for us to go out there and to make sure that we performed at our best, to put the world on notice that we are our team that is here for real. You know that we have a great team, a great coaching staff, and we finally start to put together and I believe I'm just gonna start helping us turn that corner as a team once again. I don't think energy or intensity is going

to be an issue on Monday Night, right Wolf. I mean, even to this day, Monday Night is, in the words of Cliff Kingsbury, super extra for a locker room. No, you're right, Polly about that. I think the energy definitely is going to be there. It's not that ten am body clock start. Either you don't have that going on. And I just really like the fact the Arizona Cardinals they came out with a ton of energy against the New York Jets. Well that's exactly what I think they're

going to have to bring as well. This is something Polly, especially without the fans, this is something I know you've been talking about, but it's so true. You've got to create your own energy, right is it? You always say, Polly, bring me Yoe, bring your own energy, bring your own energy. And Polly, honestly, right now, this is what you've got to do. You've got to bring that intensity to the field. And it's the reason why I asked Dennis Gardeck. I asked him, you guys talk about this, do you talk

about it? He listens, we've got to get ready to go, and we've got to be ready to go from the first snap. Get yourself ready to go. Paul, I remember distinctly challenging guys, guys in the locker room, challenging each other and saying some pretty nasty things to each other as well, to get you ready for snap one. You can't tell me that Cliff and Kyler aren't already ready to go when they're going back home as guys who grew up on Friday night lights, now they're on Monday

Night for the first time. Cliff and Kyler Wolf they gotta have something super extra waiting for the Dallas Cowboys in this one and Paula. Honestly, right now, I think we're in store for something special on Monday Night with Kyler Murray and this offense and Andy Dalton. Andy Dalton a guy that is from Fort Worth, yep, are you kidding me? Well? Kyle has already won three state titles. He's six and ozo in that building between high school and college or Jim Alma Hunter and Cody Fincher, Ron

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