WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Gardeck Looks To Build On Defensive Debut 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.440 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles ahead. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:10.320 He got Jack. This is the big Red Rain presented 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:14.680 by Santanford in Gilbert. Harry's gonna score touchdown. That's over, 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.800 Bets goes up and begs the game. When it catch 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.919 Flarry Luncheon does it again. The Rage is brought to 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:27.640 you by satan Ford in Gilbert. Or are you Satanford? 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.360 State Farm? Talk to an agent today at eight hundred 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:37.120 State Farm and buy Arizona Cardinals podcasts. Visit Hacy Cardinals 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:45.320 dot com, Slash podcasts, The Rods, Rising Guard, Gimperaturizing Vision, 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.680 Flurring Rage, taking it over. Here's Paul KELVC. Get the 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.240 popcorn ready, It's gonna be a show and Ron will flip. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.880 It doesn't get any better than that. Unleash the far 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.560 and I quote a member of the Arizona Cardinals, a 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.720 member of the all decade team, Ron wolf Lee. You 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:12.399 said earlier today that the Cardinals attend to go to 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.520 Big d to Monday night football where we don't expect 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.160 it to be a problem. The old byoe bring your 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.840 own energy, not on Monday night. And Pat Pe was 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.520 the one who said they are going with the intent 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.920 to quote put the world on notice that this team 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:34.120 is for real. Quote how about that boy? For a 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.320 stated game plan? It's pretty strong right there, PAULI is 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.520 it not? I mean I love it. Yeah, bring that 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.760 kind of energy, go ahead, And now you've got to 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.480 go out and play. And I'm not saying that he's 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.759 not going to do that. I am saying, though, if 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.120 you're going to say things like that, well you better 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.240 go out in ball, right because you know what a 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.920 lot of the skeptics and doubters and haters are saying 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.640 right now that you beat the Jets, correct, and with 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.640 the Niners struggling, and you have to win against Washington 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.520 that you know, the Cardinals three wins him out to 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:09.040 some sort of false positive. And now without Chandler Jones. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.080 We heard what Dan Orlovski said this week on ESPN 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.160 minus Chandler Jones, and I quote again, this takes a 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.639 contending team out of the mix. Yeah, just Paully. Honestly, though, 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.000 going back to what you just said right off the 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.959 top about Pappy right there, it reminds me of being 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.600 out on the field, Paul. And sometimes when you were 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.080 out on the field, you know what you would do 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.640 PAULI if you felt like you were dragging, that you 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.920 were lagging a little bit, that you were you know, 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.800 I've got to pick it up here. A lot of times, Paul, 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:42.800 you'd start talking yourself. No, no, no, you'd start talking 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:47.359 to the opponents. You start dare I say, trash talking, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.920 because you knew one thing. If I'm going to start talking, 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.400 if I'm gonna start flapping it, I better back it up. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.600 And you would. I would do that, Paul, And I 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.800 knew there were other guys that would do it as 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.760 well if they felt like they were dragging a little bit. Now, listen, 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.440 I'm not saying that's what Pat Pe was doing right there, 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.600 but it reminds me of Man, if you're gonna say something, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.080 you better go back it up. And that really gets 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.000 me jacked up, because Pat Pe, more times than not 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.200 has backed it up. What is the degree of difficulty 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.520 now minus Chandler Jones in your mind, the guy they 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.200 traded four in twenty sixteen and has led the NFL 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.600 and sacks and forced fumbles ever since. How do you 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.680 quantify the loss of Chandler Jones to the biceps injury 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.200 for the rest of the year. Yeah, First of all. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.799 You just you can't. You're not going to replace him 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.720 with another player. You're not going to do that. Now, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.200 how are you going to go about your business? I 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.920 don't know. I do know that scheming pressure is a 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.840 big part of why Vance Joseph is a defensive coordinator 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.480 in the National Football League. You look at their third 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.640 down defense right now, they're still very very good in 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.280 elite third down defense overall. Well, now they're going to 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.040 have to put that third down Moniker. They're gonna have 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.640 to put it on the line because Dalton and the 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.680 Dallas Cowboys with all those weapons, they're coming. And I'm 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.360 telling you right now, Andy Dalton is a focused dude. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.880 So Chandler Jones, They're gonna miss him, Big Paul. There's 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.600 no way to replace him, But I think the one 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.760 way you can try is via scheme. Well, the Cardinals, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.960 to your note there, did check the three big boxes 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.960 fans Joseph wanted to go ahead and see in this 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:30.040 win against the Jets, third down, red zone and tackling 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.360 they were all back. And the Cardinals points per game, 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.080 which now is a defense, is top five in the NFL. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.440 Check it out. After a thirty to ten win against 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.799 the Jets. Of course you want a number. How about 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:47.039 the two sacks in ten snaps by Dennis Gardek who 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.560 was our very special guest tonight. And it's all presented 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.839 by santan Ford and Gilbert. It is the big red Rage. 0:04:53.880 --> 0:05:01.680 We are santan Ford shotguns and half the Kyler murt 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.839 from the pocket, deep pass left side going for Hopkins, 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:10.240 one handed cats and a touchdown. DeAndre Hopkins was blanketed 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.440 by a jet, but it don't matter. Hopkins makes the 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.440 catch and the Cardinals man just put the Jets to sleep. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:22.719 Oh can you taste it right there? Maybe the fifty 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:27.000 fifty balls to the left of Kyler Murray and a 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:32.720 perfect passde hop That is big time with a one 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:37.719 hand snack, perhaps the best all around receiver in the NFL. 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:42.599 Great hands, great vision, grade speed, six grabs of buck 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.240 thirty one, that thirty seven yard touchdowns set up by 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:49.800 a forty five yard chunk throw. DeAndre Hopkins taking his 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.279 skills to the big stage in the Arizona Cardinals against 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.400 the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night. And by the way, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.920 Ron Wolfley eighteen of the top twenty rated TV shows 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.960 in twenty twenty, R NFL broadcasts, so you know everyone's 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.719 going to be watching. Everyone wants to have a big game. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.440 It is the showcase, there is no doubt about it. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.800 This is the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.680 and Gilbert. We are santan Ford. Moments away, we'll be 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.839 talking with Dennis Gardak, one of the big stars of 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.960 the game. But give us your thoughts on and DeAndre 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.200 Hopkins and you guys mentioned in the play call there, 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.640 you and Dave pass about the fifty fifty ball is 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.520 back in the Arizona Cardinals offense. Yeah, Polly, I thought 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.800 that was when you get down to the tactical level. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.000 I thought that was one of the big pluses of 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.800 this game for the Arizona Cardinals, just the fact that 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.000 Kyler Murray took some shots down the field on what 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.920 clearly we're fifty fifty balls to DeAndre Hopkins and it 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.680 paid off in a big, big way for the Cardinals. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:47.919 That chunk throw. I want to go back to the 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.440 forty five yard chunk throw. Not the touchdown Bali, but 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.640 the forty five yard throw that he happened to throw first. 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.279 I can tell you right now, Polly, his eyes were 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.560 fantastic on this thing. You could see that he was 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:06.960 anticipating a roll a safety rolling away from beyondre Hopkins, 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.520 and suddenly that anticipation happened on the snap and you 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:16.120 could almost see Kyler Murray's eyes go wide because he 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.520 knew he had singled up on the backside. He had 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.600 singled up beyondre Hopkins and because of that, and now 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.000 all of a sudden, he's throwing the ball up on 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.840 a fifty fifty ball and guess what happened. D hop 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.000 came down with it. I think that's where you start 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.840 on the tactical level. And then the fact that he 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.840 did it again on a thirty seven yard touchdown, it 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.400 tells me this is something we're going to see a 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.440 whole lot more of going forward. Man. I like hearing 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.480 that about Kyler as well, that he's throwing with anticipation, 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.000 because we know he has everything else in the skill set. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.080 When he's thrown with anticipation and then the accuracy is 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.400 with it. And we saw that against the Jets and 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.720 DeAndre Hopkins in that final touchdown drive was a beneficiary. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.360 In fact, here's d hop on those big catches. You 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.600 know cover one, you know one hot safety which means, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.640 you know, meet one on one with a cornerback and 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.280 you know, I like my eyes and I was just 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.400 you know, telling Kylie just trust me. The guy was off, 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.840 the corner was off. You know, he wasn't close to me. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.680 But you know I was told to, you know, give 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.920 me a chance, and you know, let's work on some things. 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.840 See that Baldi that is so beautiful right there out 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:26.080 of d Hop. He saw it too, the safety rotating 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:27.840 to the middle of the field. That's what you hear 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.160 when he's saying cover one, right, he's talking about man free. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.600 He's talking about man across the board with a free 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.520 safety in the middle of the field. That's what Kyler saw. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.760 He saw that safety rotate to the middle of the 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.640 field of that man. D Hop was one on one 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:47.079 on the backside. Identifying those moments and throwing it up 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.720 is something that I'm looking forward to because we're going 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.199 to say a whole lot more greatness from d Hop. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.840 All right, so hit zoom out. Have we not seen 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.440 this before? Long time Cardinals fans. Once upon a time, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.959 it was Kurt Warner to Larry Fitzgerald, if he's single covered, 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.520 he's open. Are we back to that stage? In this 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.160 relationship between a quarterback and receiver. I think so, Polly, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.040 I really do. Hopefully we're gonna see this again. Listen, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.760 you watch that on film, and I guarantee you in 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.800 that tape room where they're watching it, they were going 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.880 over and over and over that very play right there, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.760 the dynamics, the point that actually set up that throw, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.360 and then all of a sudden, what you did in 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.640 going back and looking at it right now. It's just 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.880 gonna cement in Kyler Murray's head. The fact that when 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.640 this guy is covered as long as he's singled up, 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:42.760 and if you go back and look at the thirty 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.600 seven yard touchdown, he wasn't singled up. There was a 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.079 safety also that came over the top and he's still 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.240 caught the ball with one head. So to me, yes, 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.360 this is gonna cement in Kyler's head. You gotta take 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.120 these shots. It's part of our offense. It's who we are. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.000 That's exactly what Kurt Warner had to learn with Larry 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.360 and learned. That's the operative word, because he's told us 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.000 on the Big Red Rage before. It was a process. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.160 Because it's so different for a quarterback to think, oh, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.280 there's a guy all over him, I'll throw it anyway. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.680 So that trust has to build. Based on those last 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.199 two catches, it's definitely starting to build between those two. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.040 How about the Cardinals offense in general? One hundred ninety 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.640 six total net yards, a pretty good mix of passing, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.200 three sixty nine, one hundred and twenty seven Russian, especially 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.439 late going. It got a little more vertical that run game, 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:34.079 twenty eight first downs. Yet they definitely left points and 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.160 yards on that field, did they not? Yeah, they did, Polly. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.000 But once again I saw an improvement right here. I'm 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.280 really encouraged by what I saw. Listen, the protection of 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.920 Kyler Murray. Start there. The protection of Kyler Murray after 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.480 five games this season, it's not even close to what 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.240 it was a year ago. Do you know how many 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:55.160 sacks the Arizona Cardinals had after five games last year, Paully, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.199 I think it was like two dozen, wasn't it was 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:01.480 twenty one sacks? Paul? Stop and think about that right there. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.679 The protection of Kyler Murray was so much better and 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.360 has been so much better through five games. Right now, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.080 they have eight sacks that they've given up. He's only 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.439 been hit thirteen times. That's number two in the National 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.319 Football League. Number one has been hit nine times the 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:21.000 Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, number two, the Arizona Cardinals, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:25.560 and Kyler Murray thirteen hits on Kyler Murray. Plus they 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.280 may have found their rushing attack in that fourth quarter. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.920 I am greatly encouraged by what I'm seeing with the offense. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.600 How about as a four time Pro bowler on special 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.640 teams the Pro Bowl Alternata special teams a year ago 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.000 is our guest. Next, a guy who came in had 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:47.040 two sacks, two memorable sack dances. The guy that Cliff 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.920 Kingsbury says said is hell on wheels on the scout 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.360 team that is all straight ahead on the big Red 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.760 Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert We are satan Ford. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.480 Dennis Gardak, by the way, is playing Chandler Jones position 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.880 right now at right outside linebacker the second down and 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.360 ten back to throw a flack oh sacked by guardck. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.760 Oh my goodness, what a move by Dennis Gardak. The 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:20.400 Barbarian came inside hair flying blacko in the pocket, gonna 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:25.400 get hit and sacked. Dennis Gardak got him again. And 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.200 then Dennis Gardak doing an interesting sack dance where he 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.439 just kind of bounced back and forth on his feet 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.640 with his hands out, palms up. I don't know what 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:40.079 he was asking for. What is good guardeck? Dennis Gardak 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.400 got up and did a little barbarian dance around the fire. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.600 What's that same dance? Like nobody's watching? Yeah? Well, if 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.360 I'm sitting there in New York, there's not a fan 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.800 in the stance, every seat is empty, and there's Dennis Gardak, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.240 not one, but two sack dances like nobody's watching. He 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.079 enjoyed it. I know I enjoy did Yeah, and there 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.680 was the TV audience obviously watching as against the Jets Jets, 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.320 Jets Jets. He went sack sack in ten snaps and 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.160 he joins us now on the Big Red Rage, presented 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.920 by Santan Ford and Gilbert Dennis. How are you doing? 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.760 How's this week been for you so far? Hi, guys, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.720 thanks for having me. Um, It's been a funky week. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.200 Normally I fly pretty pretty low under the radar, but 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.480 things have been blown up a little bit, you know what. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.440 I absolutely Dennis Man welcome. First of all, let me 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.920 say that, but also I just wanted to get your 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.719 overall opinion as to this season, how it's going for you, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.920 the preparation. Just can you quantify how weird this dynamic 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:50.360 has been this season has been with a pandemic going on. Yeah, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.559 it's definitely been strange, especially you know, going all the 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.480 way back to the certainty of is this season happening 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.720 kind of in the off season, just being able to 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.640 block out all the noise and just like you've got 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.880 to prepare like it's going to happen whether it does 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.480 or not. You know, you've got to be prepared up 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.280 until you know all the new protocols and everything, and 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:18.559 now playing without fans. It's weird how how different things 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:22.680 are yet how similar they are, if that makes any sense, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.360 because at the end of the day, it's still ball, 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:29.280 right eleven on eleven. A lot of guys say, how 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.840 it's the routine that the Cardinals have been able to 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.920 adhere to unlike a lot of other teams. But it's 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.160 that routine that actually helps bring the only semblance of 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.440 normalcy here in twenty twenty. Would you agree with that? Yeah, one, 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.360 when you're kind of like locked into your day to 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.040 day and it feels so similar to how it's been 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.480 in years past, you do kind of lose touch of 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.880 everything outside and how how strange things still are. Okay, 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.440 so Dennis, I'm not talking about the pandemic. I'm talking 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.600 about your season personally. How do you think? No, no, no, 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.320 I'm talking now. I want I want you to answer 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:12.480 about your season personally. Now, how do you think it's going. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:19.560 I think we're up to We're up to a good start. Um, preparation, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.040 it's been the same as far as you know, preparation, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:27.320 everything going. Um. The team captain was a was a 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.960 pretty big honor this year. Um, did that surprise you? 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.360 Did that surprise you? Oh? It did? It did quite 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.440 a bit. Um, just because I'm not I'm not a 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.000 very big vocal guy. I try to try to lead 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.840 through my examples and uh, maybe a couple of one 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.400 on one situations if I feel like like somebody needs 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.280 help with something or I'm more of a one on 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.800 one type of guy than getting up in front of 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.440 the team and being like, hey guys, we need to 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.360 do this, this and this. That's just not my style. So, um, 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.800 it did surprise me quite a bit. Did you take 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.000 a moment to appreciate it, to let it resonate and 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.520 soak in that your peers recognized you. Was that meaningful 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.000 to you, Yeah, definitely that. I think that's the highest 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.080 honor of getting the recognition from the guys that you 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:19.680 see every single day and them kind of understanding the 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.280 grind and the struggle of things and recognizing you as 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.760 a leader among them. It's all about you. Presented by 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.440 Santan Ford and Gilbert Dennis Gardek as our guest, and 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.640 you talk about the preparation. We never expected Chandler Jones 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.360 to go down, yet there you were. How prepared did 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.920 you feel to get your first ever regular season snaps 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:45.040 on defense? I think it was going to be a 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:51.280 shock regardless of when the reps came, just because you 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.280 know who I had in front of me. But I 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.640 felt very prepared. I go against DJ Humphries every single 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:02.040 day in practice. This is my third year in the league, 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.200 so I did have some sort of comfort out there, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.680 familiar with all the guys on our side of the ball. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.520 So it was kind of a mixed bag of emotions. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:16.520 But when the ball is snapped, you play ball. You 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.760 know what's so weird about it, Dennis, I see you 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.919 more as an off the ball guy. I see you 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.680 more as a week side inside guy. I don't really 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.639 see you as an edge guy. How about you? What 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:32.359 is your preference? I see myself as an edge guy. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.040 I do understand that that physically I'm not quite as 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:41.639 large as those guys up there. But I like rolling 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:46.080 off the ball. I think it's different seeing everything from 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.240 from one side as opposed to being off the ball 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.800 and having things kind of coming at you from both sides. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.920 So I like playing from the edge and being able 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.320 to play fast, and I like putting my forehead on people, 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.680 so I get to do that up on the line. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:08.160 What is good, right guardek? What it's good? Brother? Speaking 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.439 of it? Was the second sack you set up with 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:15.879 the bullrush, didn't you? I did? So. Every football is 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.840 a physical sport, so I try to set everything up 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.520 off of contact. I want to. I want to get 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.320 into an offensive environment first before we're gonna figure figure 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.600 out how I'm gonna get around them. Okay, tell me 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.520 about your dance. Okay, can you tell me about those dance? 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.239 I mean, did you practice that dance? Dennis? Tell me 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:41.119 the truth? I mean, everything on Sunday has been rehearsed before, 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:46.160 so obviously obviously the second one had been done before. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.920 That's kind of my go to move m when I'm 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.680 feeling the music I practice when I'm at home listening 0:18:53.680 --> 0:19:00.160 to music, making my dinner. That's kind of that's right there. Well, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.919 I was, you know what. I'm so proud of you 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:07.000 for actually admitting that on the air. Well. Earlier today, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.720 Patrick Peterson was turned into a judge for like Dancing 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.040 with the Stars, okay, and he was asked a rate 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.399 your sack dances, starting with the second one he started 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.359 with you called hitting the Strobe, and then the first 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:22.080 one you titled Turned the ConA. And so here's Pat 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.439 p and his rankings. The one he did like this, 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.600 I actually liked that one. That one's actually pretty cool. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:31.040 I would have gave that one seven. But the other 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.199 one with the jet thing, I really wasn't digging out him. 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:38.480 Give that at three, all right? And then you you 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.560 did the math with the media day. Go ahead, reiterate 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.880 what you said earlier about how the equation you came 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.480 up with. Yeah, just some quick math there. Seven and 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.040 three is ten. So I'm taking a ten out of ten. 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:51.640 We're not gonna we're not gonna talk about the ten 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:55.960 points I didn't get we're talking about the ten I did. Yes, Yes, 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.760 love it, love the creative math on that one. That's 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.480 now to what degree? So they are rehearsed, they are premeditated, 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.680 you have practiced them, Okay, because I was going to 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.040 say it did look a little instantaneous spur of the moment. 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:13.920 So going forward, what's your approach? I think I think 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.320 the people have decided to hit the strobe is to 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:20.680 go to move nice. Yes, I think we're gonna make 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:25.040 that a signature move now. So Dennis, I'm not trying 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.280 to ask you any questions where you're going to give 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:31.120 away inside information here, but is it safe to assume 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:35.320 that you're continuing to receive a lot of reps on 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:42.400 the edge coming up? Uh? Yeah, Well, I think it's 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.399 going to kind of be a gradual process. M But 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:50.520 I definitely think I've cracked the rotation um and when 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.360 the reps come, I'm gonna run out there the same 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:58.080 way I ran out last week and give everything I got. Well, 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.880 there's nothing like your first snaps und defense, your first 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.240 two sacks on defense, and then of course there was 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:06.280 the game ball that came with it. Let's go into 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.200 the Cardinals locker room courtesy of asy Cardinals dot Com. 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:11.440 There at five am when I walked through, all right 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.320 to get breakfast works his ass off had two saxes today, 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:31.720 Dennis Garden, appreciate your boys. Appreciate it. They were calling 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.240 for you to give a speech longer than your speech, 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:36.560 so but I was feeling, you know, nobody likes to 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:38.680 give an impromptu speech like that. Nobody likes to be 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:40.560 in that position. So I was feeling for you there. 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:44.960 Absolutely not. Yeah, I had to give an impromptu speech 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:49.640 in my speech class and uh college, and it went 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:53.480 about that. Well. That's, by the way, you and Cliff 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:57.160 Kingsbury probably get along well because you're both early risers, 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:02.399 aren't you. Yeah, then getting a head start on your 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:07.119 day kind of helps settle into into the routine and 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:10.760 get me going for practice and get me ready for 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.000 everything I need to do. You know what, Dennis, I 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:18.560 think back to your rookie year and immediately I recognize 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:20.000 the fact that you were going to be a ball 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:23.720 or in particular in transition on special teams, a transitional 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:27.480 technician bawling out, and I remember saying to you, hey, listen, 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:30.840 you get year two rookie you get year two, you'll 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:34.760 get ten. And I think you're gonna get that big guy. 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.119 And we're going to get into the special teams next, 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:40.720 and we'll talk a little bit about his background. Well 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:43.000 if you went to West Virginia, he started at West 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:47.040 Virginia State. Or remember, if you can play, you will play. 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.800 They will find you. Continue with Dennis Gardeck on the 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:58.760 big red rate presented by satan Ford in Gilbert will 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:01.320 snap it from the thirty six. Swiznowski stands at a 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:04.680 twenty two yard line and the punt is blocked. It 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:08.320 was blocked by Ezekiel Turner, recovered by Gardak who gets 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:10.560 up and runs at the fifteen and he's tackled at 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:15.240 the ten. All the Cardinals their punt return went right 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:19.760 through the forty nine ers protection with warm pastry. All 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:25.040 that is sweet baby, right there, Zeke Turner getting the block. 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:29.399 That is a huge play by the Cardinals special teams. 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:32.480