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I'm telling you ab ready. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:54.320 And Ron Wolfleeve. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:59.000 It doesn't get any better than that leash the field. 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.840 You know, it's not every day, not every postgame, where 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.720 a press conference turns into a bona fide fear commercial. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.480 And that is why we are gathered here tonight on 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.360 this very special Cardinals Folk Tales edition of The Big 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.360 Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. Paul Calvic 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.120 joined by Darren Rban. He was right there front and center. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.920 Thanks Coach is the title of this edition Cardinals Folktales. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.200 This is where you can't spell the word history without 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.760 the word story. We go into the Cardinals archives and 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.600 just all time anecdotes. And for you, Darren, when people 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.479 ask you about your more than two decades covering the Cardinals, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:45.720 where does Danny Green's famous Monday Night meltdown? Where does 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.640 it rank on your personal power pole? 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.520 I mean in terms of memories, just memorable moments, it's 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.320 probably I would it wouldn't be number one because this 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.440 team did go to the Super Bowl, true, but it 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:57.600 would probably number two. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.200 And it was Monday night football, yeah, and it was 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:07.960 a potential big time win that slowly but surely unraveled. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.639 You thought the game was a meltdown. Then you got 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.399 to the postgame press conference and there was Danny Green 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.160 addressing the media and we're gonna hear it all for ourselves. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.440 We're gonna go into the background. What led up to 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.320 that memorable moment? And really it was a week dare 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.800 I say several months in the making, because it went 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.000 back to the preseason in a lot of ways, did 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:31.240 it not? 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:32.560 It did? I mean. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.799 Living through it in real time, and it was something 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:41.680 that I realized later that the things he was saying 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.160 absolutely came from playing the Bears in the preseason and 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:46.799 some of the things that happened, so which makes sense 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.880 with what he said. It's funny I go back and 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.799 look at my story and that wasn't even the lead 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.959 quote that I used. I used one of the players 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.520 lead quote talking about how it was a terrible loss, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.920 and then I talked about it because you know, while 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.720 was huge at the time when it happened, I never 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.160 had an idea that it was going to be as 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.080 huge as it ultimately turned out to be. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.239 And look, it really has been. I mean, some of 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.600 those sayings from that press conference have lived. I mean 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.840 they're all timers. You know, they are who we thought 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.000 they were, crown them. I mean, those are like all 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.799 time quotes from Dennis Green, who would later literally turn 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.480 it into a beer commercial and he would benefit from that. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.800 And look, it wasn't the first time that Dennis Green, 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.799 shall we say, got emotional at the mic. I mean 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:32.839 he was known for being involved all on that way 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.760 a couple weeks earlier. And we're going to get into 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.240 this once we get into Cardinals Folk Tales. There I 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.640 was where he announced the changing quarterback from the veteran 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.800 Kurt Warner to Matt Liner live in our postgame radio interview, 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.960 ripping the microphone out of my hand from behind my 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.640 back away from Matt Lioner, and in declaring him the starter. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.000 So you never quite knew what you were going to 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:54.400 get from Denny Green day to day. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:54.680 No. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.240 I remember one time in training camp that year, right 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.640 before Matt Lioner signed his contract, there was a question 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.440 about player injury. It might have been Carlos Dansby's injury. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.160 That was the question, how is Carlos Dansby doing or 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.240 something like that, and he turned it into a soliloquy 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.800 about how guys should be signed. And Kurt Warner and 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.680 Tom Brady were going to be playing in the preseason 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.880 that week, and it'd be a shame if Matt Lioner 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.960 wasn't in New England to play in that preseason game 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:18.920 because he wasn't signed. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:20.720 Yeah, he'd do that stuff. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.400 And you wonder, like, okay, what led up to Danny 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.120 Greens ran. Well, not only was it a blown halftime 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.080 lead where you were shutting out arguably the best team 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.960 in the league in the Chicago Bears, but it was 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.960 how Rex Grossman beat you with a half dozen turnovers 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.480 in that game? It is passer rating at halftime wasn't 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:46.400 even twenty. He was playing some epically bad football. And 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.599 then the Cardinals, to their own demise, well, they changed 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.719 their philosophy in the second half. In fact, the very 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.560 next day after this, the offensive coordinator lost his job. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.880 So there was a lot of a lot of aftermath 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.559 from this game. But once again, when it just comes 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.720 down to all time anecdotes and the Monday night meltdown, 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.400 there were enough people in that room who loved telling 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.000 their story and where they were and how they saw 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.120 it unfold. And that's exactly what we're going to hear 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.440 in this addition to Cardinals Folktales. So with no further ado, 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.560 we'll come back and we'll get right into it once again, 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.160 the Emmy Award winning series Cardinals Folktales, which you can 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.640 see on the Cardinals YouTube page. But we're going to 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.400 get back into that next as we continue with this 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.160 very special addition to The Big Red Rage presented by 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:46.520 santan Ford and Gilbert. Welcome back everyone into this special 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.000 edition of The Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.080 and Gilbert on Paul Calvic as we go back through 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:58.359 Cardinals folktales, in particular the Denny Green Meltdown two thousand 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.080 and six. And if you remember that season, it started 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.680 with a win and then the Cardinals lost four in 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.800 a row, two of those by a combined five points. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.200 But the bright lights and the big stage were still 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.320 to come on Monday Night football. And you know all 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.279 we talk about sports is the original reality TV. Well, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.520 how about a game where the Cardinals defense forced the 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.240 opposing quarterback into six turnovers? 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:23.480 Right? 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.760 A game the Cardinals led twenty to nothing at the half, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:30.080 yet it's still wound up with the pounding of the podium. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.279 And it was well after the game that we learned 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.960 that the Denny Green meltdown might have been as premeditated 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.880 as it was spontaneous. So here on the Big Red Rage, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.359 presented by Santanford and Gilbert, here we go with an 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.159 encore presentation of Cardinals folk tales. Thanks coach. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:53.279 Do you believe this is happening? 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:58.400 No? I cannot remember Denny ever being that out of sourts. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.720 It's one of those things that's gonna go down. I mean, 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.080 everyone's gonna remember. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.280 You know, I mean, we just said, Wait, the Bears 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:05.080 are what we thought they were. 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.280 I said to my wife on the drive home, what 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:07.960 the hell did he. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:08.560 Mean by that? 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.480 It was going really really well for us. 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.800 Boy, the Cardinals are flying around on defense. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.040 Until it wasn't hutchdown Chicago. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:18.520 Unbelievable. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:19.880 There are no words. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.880 It was deflating. We felt like we had done enough 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:23.240 to win. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.880 The meltdown is complete for the. 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:31.400 Cardinal or was it Because the most memorable meltdown was 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.280 still to come after the. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:38.480 Game, coach Dennis Green has got to be absolutely beside himself. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.320 You could say that. Then again, Danny Green did say 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.400 that a postgame press Courfrence that beer commercials are made up? 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:47.720 Literally, who do they. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:48.160 Think they are? 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.040 They are who we thought they were, They are who 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:52.080 you thought they were. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.080 Ran with a life of its own that still has 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:56.840 legs today. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:57.480 Oh I was. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.800 I was next up on the podium, and I was like, 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.520 oh what am I walking into? 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.640 Woodell takes a third game in a preseason. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.720 Like his book book, It was beautiful from the beginning 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:09.320 to the end to the MIC's laugh. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.840 If you want to crown him, you crowned her ass. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.080 It was a thing of beauty. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.200 It started before you all even saw it though, Like 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:17.720 it started off in the locker room. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.000 Because when my ass gets in there, I'm gonna go eight, 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.720 and I was like, whoa what? 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.960 It was an oh what the moment to be sure. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:33.640 Welcome into Cardinals Folk Tales, Thanks Coach, presented by Seki, 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.120 where we go in depth into Cardinals history all time 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:41.000 anecdotes through the recollections and memories of those who lived 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.240 it or in my case, those who covered it. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.000 My name is Paul Calvic, Cardinal's sideline reporter. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.880 It was October two thousand and six, Monday Night football 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.480 where the Cardinals led the undefeated Bears Swanny to nothing 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.560 at the half. You had, Coach Green had good reason 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:02.360 to be angry, frustrated, exasperated Mount Saint Denny. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.000 I'm telling you, when that clock went triple zero, something 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.960 snapped in Denny, and I don't think he ever recovered. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.440 He did it in a special way that only dentist 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:11.360 screen could do it. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.560 But they are who we thought they were, and we 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:14.360 let about the hook. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:16.559 Thanks Coach. 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.840 Now, before we get to the pounding of the podium, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:32.360 it's important to understand the stage and the stakes. Two 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.840 thousand and six was the debut season for University of 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.000 Phoenix Stadium state of the art. In fact, the roof 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.920 was open and the lights were bright for the building's 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:47.280 first regular season game in primetime, and the cameras loved themselves. 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:47.360 Some. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.839 Matt Liner, the Cardinals rookie quarterback, transcended sports. Heck, he 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.200 made People Magazine's one hundred most Beautiful list, and as 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.960 host of Matt Liner's weekly radio show, I used to 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.520 marvel at how USC fans would make the drive to 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.120 Phoenix just to hang out in the sports bar for 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.880 a one hour radio show. And the star QB brought 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.400 out the stars as well. Here's Darren Urban from Azcardinals 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:13.080 dot Com. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.920 Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore were at the game on 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.640 the sideline before the game. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.839 Matt how excited he is Monday night flight. You might 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.199 be excited too, though, if you had Ashton Coocher at 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.320 Demi Moore cheered for you, David might be fired out. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.679 That's kind of cool, you know, yeah, yeah, Demie, I 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:29.160 had done. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.880 Charles Barkley showed up and he ended up making a 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.640 appearance in the booth during Monday Night Football, and there 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.680 was just there was a vibe to it. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.000 Everything involved just seemed like a height level. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.880 People were thinking Matt Liner was going to be the 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.840 next great quarterback. There was just so much involved. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.400 It was the first round draft pick, Matt Lionert, who 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.760 was making a second star up now on national TV 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:57.360 against a very formidable and vaunted Chicago defense. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:58.439 So yeah, it was. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.320 There was a lot on display, a lot of unique 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:02.920 variables that went into that game. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.720 That's Cardinal's VP of media relations, Mark Dalton, and he's right. 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:11.320 All the pregame talk all week was all about the 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:12.400 five and zero Bears. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.680 The Chicago Bears are going to the super Bowl. It's 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.240 the best defense in the NFL in the history of 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:21.800 this league. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.439 Oh wait, it's Week six. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.720 Nope, But if you talk to everybody associated with the NFL, 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.679 including ESPN's Joe Thaisman, the Chicago Bears are on their 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:32.760 way to the super Bowl. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.360 That's voice of the Cardinals Dave Pass, who certainly was 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.559 not ready to crown the Bears. Not in Week six. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.080 Neither was Cardinals Pro Bowl pass rusher Bertrand Barry, who 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.800 wanted the world to know that the az played some DP. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:48.840 Everybody was talking about how this is going to be 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.520 a non competitive Monday night football game, and we took 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.640 that to heart. And I know from a defense this perspective, 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.800 we wanted to go out and show that Chicago Bears 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.000 had a really good defense, but we were no slouds, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.040 which is either and we felt like this is our 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:03.720 opportunity to make a big statement. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.640 Yeah, you really can't understand the postgame or the game 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.720 without broadening the lens a little bit to the season 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.320 and the preseason as a whole. The backstory is we 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.120 played Chicago in Chicago in the third preseason game and 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.160 the Ones versus Ones held our own and outplayed the 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:24.480 Bears first team. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.960 That was in the back of Denny's mind the whole 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.560 time coming up into that game. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.160 And then we got. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.040 Lovey Smith on our conference call that week and Lovey 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:37.239 Smith said. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:38.720 It was a glorified practice. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.240 We haven't really played them yet. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.160 They were able to have some success against us back then, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.920 but it's a totally different mindset. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.920 The preseason games are important. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.439 They're glorified practices to me. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.560 And I think that got under Denny's skin a little bit. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.559 I think that's important to know and to understand that. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:05.000 Denny was probably a little disappointed when Coach Smith said, Yeah, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.439 that preseason game didn't mean as much to us as 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:08.880 it seemingly did to you. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.520 The game started, and it started well. Matt Lioner had 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.800 two touchdown passes in the first quarter. Cardinals beat writer 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.640 Ken Summers covered the game for the Arizona Republic. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.520 The Cardinals dominated them in the first half. I mean dominant. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.880 Matt Lionert was so sharp, and you could tell the 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.520 Cardinals had a game plan that put the Bears on 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.439 their heels. I mean, Whinert was hitting short passes everywhere, 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.240 and they were moving the ball, and the Bears, you know, 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.679 Rex Grossman was turning the ball over all the time, 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.400 and I thought they're going to win this game, you know, 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.120 and I think everybody did at halftime. That's how good 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:43.720 they were in the first half and how bad the 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:44.240 Bears were. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.920 The Cardinals defense, you had a young Garnell dock At, 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.520 a young Carlos Stansby a young entre role. You had 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.160 Bertram Barry playing really well. You had Adrian Wilson in 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.400 the prime of his career. It was a pretty good 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.760 defense that was starting to find its way, and they 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.520 just made the Bears offense like a disaster. 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.880 They had Rex Grossman at quarterback, and Rex wasn't the 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.320 most talented quarterback. He didn't have the best arm, he 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.800 didn't make the best decisions. So we felt like we 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.520 could get a few balls from him, like he would 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.000 throw us a few and maybe we could get some 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.960 turnovers and go for the ball because he was a 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.480 guy that was pretty loose with the ball. He had 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:20.320 really small hands. 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.520 Play fake. Grossman steps up hitting the balls out. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.600 He got sacked, but the ball was loose at the 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.080 thirty two yard line. It was bertrand Barry that came 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.880 around against his first sack of the year and a 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:31.760 forced fumble. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:33.520 Again, there's still wrestling for it. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:34.680 It's cardinal ball. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.360 Berry comes up with a fumble recovery as well. He 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.119 did it all on that plot. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.000 We felt like if we could get him the turn 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.480 the ball over more than what he had, that we 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.640 could as an offense score enough points in order to 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.920 get that went home. And it almost worked. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:54.920 Almost as mentioned. The defense did its part. Rex Grossman 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:59.200 finished with six turnovers, four picks, two lost fumbles, his 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:03.320 passer rating halftime seventeen point two. In fact, it was 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.400 twenty to nothing. Cardinals getting ready for the second half 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.680 and Dave Pash was still uneasy. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.800 When the Cardinals were up. Fig Yeah, we were surprised, 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.680 but I think just because we had been snake bitten before. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.200 I think there was a little concern, like you got 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:23.920 another half and then it all started to unravel. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.680 Denny kind of got a little cautious, didn't want Matt 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.360 Leonard making any any mistakes. They started handing the ball 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.360 off to Edrin James time after time after time, and 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.760 he wasn't going anywhere. He ended up with fifty five 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.400 yards on thirty six carries. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:39.600 That was ridiculous. 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.960 That's one point five yards per carry, and it was 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:47.080 Carrie after Carrie thirty six times. Edrin James ran the 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.280 ball and got nowhere. And it was by design a 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.240 halftime adjustment to make darn sure the rookie QB didn't 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.960 throw the game away literally once again, Ken Summers. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:02.320 I think Denny Green went offensive coordinator Keith Rowing and 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.520 said back off, run the ball, run, drain the clock, 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.680 and that's what they did. Brian Urlacker finished with like 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.240 one hundred and nineteen tackles in that game. He hit 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.360 Edgrin James so often it was an unbelieve I've never 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.200 seen one player hit another player so often in any. 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:22.160 Game they ought to name Erlacker Skycamp because he's everywhere. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.280 He is, making plays sideline to sideline. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.520 Even though the Cardinals got conservative and stunk, the Bear 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.880 still had to have four things go exactly right for 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:34.800 him to win that game. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:44.720 Commencing countdown to meltdown, ignition to implosion. In three two one. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.040 High formation behind the line of three step drop, here 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.000 comes Anderson of the balls babble that's loose on the 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.360 far side of the Bears. Mike Brown picks it up 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.680 and he walks in for a Chicago touchdown, and the 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.280 Bears have new life with two seconds to go in 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:57.160 the third quarter. 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.240 The one thing they can't do is turned the ball 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:05.359 over in that situation, and that's exactly what happens. Given 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:06.200 the Bears life. 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.680 Wolf gives me grief all the time that somehow I'm 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.320 the human Jinks for the Cardinals. He calls it the 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.199 pash factor. I say something and the next play the 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.840 opposite happens. Well, he did it to Edrin Edrin James. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.800 Thank goodness, he's not a fumbler. Very next play fumbler. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.960 The Cardinals really protecting the football right now, And that's 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.560 the great thing about having edgrin James too. The guy's 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.919 not a fumbler, David. He doesn't put it on the 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:33.040 ground very often. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.400 Five twenty five to go on the fort twenty three 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.680 to ten Arizona, they're out of the eye with James, 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.120 the deep man. He gets it off the right side, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:43.879 cut it back to the left, and he gets stuck 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.040 right in the legs at the forty one yard line and. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:46.640 The ball's loose. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.520 It's fumbled and picked up by the Bears farside Tilmot 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.679 at the twenty to ten to five touchdown Chicago. 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:58.399 Did I just say that, Oh my goodness. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.720 A thirty six yard bumb I'm recovery for the touchdown 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.880 by the Chicago Bears, and with five minutes to go 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.480 there within one touchdown. 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:13.320 Another unforgettable, regrettable moment. Forget the pash factor, the wolf factor. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:18.879 Jing seemingly spoke the fumble into existence. But wait, there's more. Now, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.760 time for the Bears special teams to score. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.000 Devin Hester. When Devin Hester caught the puntword I'll never forget. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.560 As soon as he caught the ball on the return, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.359 like he made one move in it. You saw it 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.399 Hestro waits for it at the eighteenyard line, backs up, 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.360 and I runs right into the twenty twenty five log 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:39.720 out thirty near side, forty at midfield forty five, forty 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.400 with a kicker to be thirty twenty fifteen to ten 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.520 five touchdown, Chicago and. 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:51.480 The Bears unbelievably have tied this football game. You gotta 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:57.959 be kidding me. No way, no way, unbelievable. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.720 There are no works. The meltdown is complete for the 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.560 Cardinals offensively and in transition. 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.720 Hunting the ball straight to Devin Hester. That that wasn't 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:17.280 the best idea. So it just it was deflating. It 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.480 really was, because we felt like we had done enough 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.240 to win, and to see him return that punt for 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.560 a touchdown, it just it took a lot to win 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:28.520 out of ourselves. 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:32.119 But as devastating as that may have been, rookie Devin 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.320 Hester with his second career return for touchdown, the Cardinals 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.520 still had two fifty eight left down twenty four to 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:42.080 twenty three, with one last chance at redemption. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.720 What everybody forgets is that they fell behind after the 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:51.639 partner turn by Devin Hester and Matt Lioner played like 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.520 the quarterback of the future came on the field. He 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.639 led them down the field into field goal range for 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.320 a game winning field goal through forty yards that's completely doable, 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.080 and then Neil Rackers blows it. 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.920 The snap's good, balls down, Rackers kick is up, but 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:06.600 has the lack. 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.200 Rackers kick is no good. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.119 Rackers fucked it and he just missed it to the 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:17.200