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Speaker 1: and I quote a member of the Arizona Cardinals, a
Speaker 1: member of the all decade team, Ron wolf Lee. You
Speaker 1: said earlier today that the Cardinals attend to go to
Speaker 1: Big d to Monday night football where we don't expect
Speaker 1: it to be a problem. The old byoe bring your
Speaker 1: own energy, not on Monday night. And Pat Pe was
Speaker 1: the one who said they are going with the intent
Speaker 1: to quote put the world on notice that this team
Speaker 1: is for real. Quote how about that boy? For a
Speaker 1: stated game plan? It's pretty strong right there, PAULI is
Speaker 1: it not? I mean I love it. Yeah, bring that
Speaker 1: kind of energy, go ahead, And now you've got to
Speaker 1: go out and play. And I'm not saying that he's
Speaker 1: not going to do that. I am saying, though, if
Speaker 1: you're going to say things like that, well you better
Speaker 1: go out in ball, right because you know what a
Speaker 1: lot of the skeptics and doubters and haters are saying
Speaker 1: right now that you beat the Jets, correct, and with
Speaker 1: the Niners struggling, and you have to win against Washington
Speaker 1: that you know, the Cardinals three wins him out to
Speaker 1: some sort of false positive. And now without Chandler Jones.
Speaker 1: We heard what Dan Orlovski said this week on ESPN
Speaker 1: minus Chandler Jones, and I quote again, this takes a
Speaker 1: contending team out of the mix. Yeah, just Paully. Honestly, though,
Speaker 1: going back to what you just said right off the
Speaker 1: top about Pappy right there, it reminds me of being
Speaker 1: out on the field, Paul. And sometimes when you were
Speaker 1: out on the field, you know what you would do
Speaker 1: PAULI if you felt like you were dragging, that you
Speaker 1: were lagging a little bit, that you were you know,
Speaker 1: I've got to pick it up here. A lot of times, Paul,
Speaker 1: you'd start talking yourself. No, no, no, you'd start talking
Speaker 1: to the opponents. You start dare I say, trash talking,
Speaker 1: because you knew one thing. If I'm going to start talking,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna start flapping it, I better back it up.
Speaker 1: And you would. I would do that, Paul, And I
Speaker 1: knew there were other guys that would do it as
Speaker 1: well if they felt like they were dragging a little bit. Now, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's what Pat Pe was doing right there,
Speaker 1: but it reminds me of Man, if you're gonna say something,
Speaker 1: you better go back it up. And that really gets
Speaker 1: me jacked up, because Pat Pe, more times than not
Speaker 1: has backed it up. What is the degree of difficulty
Speaker 1: now minus Chandler Jones in your mind, the guy they
Speaker 1: traded four in twenty sixteen and has led the NFL
Speaker 1: and sacks and forced fumbles ever since. How do you
Speaker 1: quantify the loss of Chandler Jones to the biceps injury
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. Yeah, First of all.
Speaker 1: You just you can't. You're not going to replace him
Speaker 1: with another player. You're not going to do that. Now,
Speaker 1: how are you going to go about your business? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I do know that scheming pressure is a
Speaker 1: big part of why Vance Joseph is a defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. You look at their third
Speaker 1: down defense right now, they're still very very good in
Speaker 1: elite third down defense overall. Well, now they're going to
Speaker 1: have to put that third down Moniker. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to put it on the line because Dalton and the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys with all those weapons, they're coming. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now, Andy Dalton is a focused dude.
Speaker 1: So Chandler Jones, They're gonna miss him, Big Paul. There's
Speaker 1: no way to replace him, But I think the one
Speaker 1: way you can try is via scheme. Well, the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: to your note there, did check the three big boxes
Speaker 1: fans Joseph wanted to go ahead and see in this
Speaker 1: win against the Jets, third down, red zone and tackling
Speaker 1: they were all back. And the Cardinals points per game,
Speaker 1: which now is a defense, is top five in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Check it out. After a thirty to ten win against
Speaker 1: the Jets. Of course you want a number. How about
Speaker 1: the two sacks in ten snaps by Dennis Gardek who
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Speaker 1: from the pocket, deep pass left side going for Hopkins,
Speaker 1: one handed cats and a touchdown. DeAndre Hopkins was blanketed
Speaker 1: by a jet, but it don't matter. Hopkins makes the
Speaker 1: catch and the Cardinals man just put the Jets to sleep.
Speaker 1: Oh can you taste it right there? Maybe the fifty
Speaker 1: fifty balls to the left of Kyler Murray and a
Speaker 1: perfect passde hop That is big time with a one
Speaker 1: hand snack, perhaps the best all around receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Great hands, great vision, grade speed, six grabs of buck
Speaker 1: thirty one, that thirty seven yard touchdowns set up by
Speaker 1: a forty five yard chunk throw. DeAndre Hopkins taking his
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Speaker 1: talking with Dennis Gardak, one of the big stars of
Speaker 1: the game. But give us your thoughts on and DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins and you guys mentioned in the play call there,
Speaker 1: you and Dave pass about the fifty fifty ball is
Speaker 1: back in the Arizona Cardinals offense. Yeah, Polly, I thought
Speaker 1: that was when you get down to the tactical level.
Speaker 1: I thought that was one of the big pluses of
Speaker 1: this game for the Arizona Cardinals, just the fact that
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray took some shots down the field on what
Speaker 1: clearly we're fifty fifty balls to DeAndre Hopkins and it
Speaker 1: paid off in a big, big way for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: That chunk throw. I want to go back to the
Speaker 1: forty five yard chunk throw. Not the touchdown Bali, but
Speaker 1: the forty five yard throw that he happened to throw first.
Speaker 1: I can tell you right now, Polly, his eyes were
Speaker 1: fantastic on this thing. You could see that he was
Speaker 1: anticipating a roll a safety rolling away from beyondre Hopkins,
Speaker 1: and suddenly that anticipation happened on the snap and you
Speaker 1: could almost see Kyler Murray's eyes go wide because he
Speaker 1: knew he had singled up on the backside. He had
Speaker 1: singled up beyondre Hopkins and because of that, and now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's throwing the ball up on
Speaker 1: a fifty fifty ball and guess what happened. D hop
Speaker 1: came down with it. I think that's where you start
Speaker 1: on the tactical level. And then the fact that he
Speaker 1: did it again on a thirty seven yard touchdown, it
Speaker 1: tells me this is something we're going to see a
Speaker 1: whole lot more of going forward. Man. I like hearing
Speaker 1: that about Kyler as well, that he's throwing with anticipation,
Speaker 1: because we know he has everything else in the skill set.
Speaker 1: When he's thrown with anticipation and then the accuracy is
Speaker 1: with it. And we saw that against the Jets and
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins in that final touchdown drive was a beneficiary.
Speaker 1: In fact, here's d hop on those big catches. You
Speaker 1: know cover one, you know one hot safety which means,
Speaker 1: you know, meet one on one with a cornerback and
Speaker 1: you know, I like my eyes and I was just
Speaker 1: you know, telling Kylie just trust me. The guy was off,
Speaker 1: the corner was off. You know, he wasn't close to me.
Speaker 1: But you know I was told to, you know, give
Speaker 1: me a chance, and you know, let's work on some things.
Speaker 1: See that Baldi that is so beautiful right there out
Speaker 1: of d Hop. He saw it too, the safety rotating
Speaker 1: to the middle of the field. That's what you hear
Speaker 1: when he's saying cover one, right, he's talking about man free.
Speaker 1: He's talking about man across the board with a free
Speaker 1: safety in the middle of the field. That's what Kyler saw.
Speaker 1: He saw that safety rotate to the middle of the
Speaker 1: field of that man. D Hop was one on one
Speaker 1: on the backside. Identifying those moments and throwing it up
Speaker 1: is something that I'm looking forward to because we're going
Speaker 1: to say a whole lot more greatness from d Hop.
Speaker 1: All right, so hit zoom out. Have we not seen
Speaker 1: this before? Long time Cardinals fans. Once upon a time,
Speaker 1: it was Kurt Warner to Larry Fitzgerald, if he's single covered,
Speaker 1: he's open. Are we back to that stage? In this
Speaker 1: relationship between a quarterback and receiver. I think so, Polly,
Speaker 1: I really do. Hopefully we're gonna see this again. Listen,
Speaker 1: you watch that on film, and I guarantee you in
Speaker 1: that tape room where they're watching it, they were going
Speaker 1: over and over and over that very play right there,
Speaker 1: the dynamics, the point that actually set up that throw,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, what you did in
Speaker 1: going back and looking at it right now. It's just
Speaker 1: gonna cement in Kyler Murray's head. The fact that when
Speaker 1: this guy is covered as long as he's singled up,
Speaker 1: and if you go back and look at the thirty
Speaker 1: seven yard touchdown, he wasn't singled up. There was a
Speaker 1: safety also that came over the top and he's still
Speaker 1: caught the ball with one head. So to me, yes,
Speaker 1: this is gonna cement in Kyler's head. You gotta take
Speaker 1: these shots. It's part of our offense. It's who we are.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what Kurt Warner had to learn with Larry
Speaker 1: and learned. That's the operative word, because he's told us
Speaker 1: on the Big Red Rage before. It was a process.
Speaker 1: Because it's so different for a quarterback to think, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a guy all over him, I'll throw it anyway.
Speaker 1: So that trust has to build. Based on those last
Speaker 1: two catches, it's definitely starting to build between those two.
Speaker 1: How about the Cardinals offense in general? One hundred ninety
Speaker 1: six total net yards, a pretty good mix of passing,
Speaker 1: three sixty nine, one hundred and twenty seven Russian, especially
Speaker 1: late going. It got a little more vertical that run game,
Speaker 1: twenty eight first downs. Yet they definitely left points and
Speaker 1: yards on that field, did they not? Yeah, they did, Polly.
Speaker 1: But once again I saw an improvement right here. I'm
Speaker 1: really encouraged by what I saw. Listen, the protection of
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Start there. The protection of Kyler Murray after
Speaker 1: five games this season, it's not even close to what
Speaker 1: it was a year ago. Do you know how many
Speaker 1: sacks the Arizona Cardinals had after five games last year, Paully,
Speaker 1: I think it was like two dozen, wasn't it was
Speaker 1: twenty one sacks? Paul? Stop and think about that right there.
Speaker 1: The protection of Kyler Murray was so much better and
Speaker 1: has been so much better through five games. Right now,
Speaker 1: they have eight sacks that they've given up. He's only
Speaker 1: been hit thirteen times. That's number two in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. Number one has been hit nine times the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, number two, the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and Kyler Murray thirteen hits on Kyler Murray. Plus they
Speaker 1: may have found their rushing attack in that fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I am greatly encouraged by what I'm seeing with the offense.
Speaker 1: How about as a four time Pro bowler on special
Speaker 1: teams the Pro Bowl Alternata special teams a year ago
Speaker 1: is our guest. Next, a guy who came in had
Speaker 1: two sacks, two memorable sack dances. The guy that Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury says said is hell on wheels on the scout
Speaker 1: team that is all straight ahead on the big Red
Speaker 1: Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert We are satan Ford.
Speaker 1: Dennis Gardak, by the way, is playing Chandler Jones position
Speaker 1: right now at right outside linebacker the second down and
Speaker 1: ten back to throw a flack oh sacked by guardck.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what a move by Dennis Gardak. The
Speaker 1: Barbarian came inside hair flying blacko in the pocket, gonna
Speaker 1: get hit and sacked. Dennis Gardak got him again. And
Speaker 1: then Dennis Gardak doing an interesting sack dance where he
Speaker 1: just kind of bounced back and forth on his feet
Speaker 1: with his hands out, palms up. I don't know what
Speaker 1: he was asking for. What is good guardeck? Dennis Gardak
Speaker 1: got up and did a little barbarian dance around the fire.
Speaker 1: What's that same dance? Like nobody's watching? Yeah? Well, if
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there in New York, there's not a fan
Speaker 1: in the stance, every seat is empty, and there's Dennis Gardak,
Speaker 1: not one, but two sack dances like nobody's watching. He
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I know I enjoy did Yeah, and there
Speaker 1: was the TV audience obviously watching as against the Jets Jets,
Speaker 1: Jets Jets. He went sack sack in ten snaps and
Speaker 1: he joins us now on the Big Red Rage, presented
Speaker 1: by Santan Ford and Gilbert Dennis. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: How's this week been for you so far? Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Um, It's been a funky week.
Speaker 1: Normally I fly pretty pretty low under the radar, but
Speaker 1: things have been blown up a little bit, you know what.
Speaker 1: I absolutely Dennis Man welcome. First of all, let me
Speaker 1: say that, but also I just wanted to get your
Speaker 1: overall opinion as to this season, how it's going for you,
Speaker 1: the preparation. Just can you quantify how weird this dynamic
Speaker 1: has been this season has been with a pandemic going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's definitely been strange, especially you know, going all the
Speaker 1: way back to the certainty of is this season happening
Speaker 1: kind of in the off season, just being able to
Speaker 1: block out all the noise and just like you've got
Speaker 1: to prepare like it's going to happen whether it does
Speaker 1: or not. You know, you've got to be prepared up
Speaker 1: until you know all the new protocols and everything, and
Speaker 1: now playing without fans. It's weird how how different things
Speaker 1: are yet how similar they are, if that makes any sense,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, it's still ball,
Speaker 1: right eleven on eleven. A lot of guys say, how
Speaker 1: it's the routine that the Cardinals have been able to
Speaker 1: adhere to unlike a lot of other teams. But it's
Speaker 1: that routine that actually helps bring the only semblance of
Speaker 1: normalcy here in twenty twenty. Would you agree with that? Yeah, one,
Speaker 1: when you're kind of like locked into your day to
Speaker 1: day and it feels so similar to how it's been
Speaker 1: in years past, you do kind of lose touch of
Speaker 1: everything outside and how how strange things still are. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Dennis, I'm not talking about the pandemic. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about your season personally. How do you think? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm talking now. I want I want you to answer
Speaker 1: about your season personally. Now, how do you think it's going.
Speaker 1: I think we're up to We're up to a good start. Um, preparation,
Speaker 1: it's been the same as far as you know, preparation,
Speaker 1: everything going. Um. The team captain was a was a
Speaker 1: pretty big honor this year. Um, did that surprise you?
Speaker 1: Did that surprise you? Oh? It did? It did quite
Speaker 1: a bit. Um, just because I'm not I'm not a
Speaker 1: very big vocal guy. I try to try to lead
Speaker 1: through my examples and uh, maybe a couple of one
Speaker 1: on one situations if I feel like like somebody needs
Speaker 1: help with something or I'm more of a one on
Speaker 1: one type of guy than getting up in front of
Speaker 1: the team and being like, hey guys, we need to
Speaker 1: do this, this and this. That's just not my style. So, um,
Speaker 1: it did surprise me quite a bit. Did you take
Speaker 1: a moment to appreciate it, to let it resonate and
Speaker 1: soak in that your peers recognized you. Was that meaningful
Speaker 1: to you, Yeah, definitely that. I think that's the highest
Speaker 1: honor of getting the recognition from the guys that you
Speaker 1: see every single day and them kind of understanding the
Speaker 1: grind and the struggle of things and recognizing you as
Speaker 1: a leader among them. It's all about you. Presented by
Speaker 1: Santan Ford and Gilbert Dennis Gardek as our guest, and
Speaker 1: you talk about the preparation. We never expected Chandler Jones
Speaker 1: to go down, yet there you were. How prepared did
Speaker 1: you feel to get your first ever regular season snaps
Speaker 1: on defense? I think it was going to be a
Speaker 1: shock regardless of when the reps came, just because you
Speaker 1: know who I had in front of me. But I
Speaker 1: felt very prepared. I go against DJ Humphries every single
Speaker 1: day in practice. This is my third year in the league,
Speaker 1: so I did have some sort of comfort out there,
Speaker 1: familiar with all the guys on our side of the ball.
Speaker 1: So it was kind of a mixed bag of emotions.
Speaker 1: But when the ball is snapped, you play ball. You
Speaker 1: know what's so weird about it, Dennis, I see you
Speaker 1: more as an off the ball guy. I see you
Speaker 1: more as a week side inside guy. I don't really
Speaker 1: see you as an edge guy. How about you? What
Speaker 1: is your preference? I see myself as an edge guy.
Speaker 1: I do understand that that physically I'm not quite as
Speaker 1: large as those guys up there. But I like rolling
Speaker 1: off the ball. I think it's different seeing everything from
Speaker 1: from one side as opposed to being off the ball
Speaker 1: and having things kind of coming at you from both sides.
Speaker 1: So I like playing from the edge and being able
Speaker 1: to play fast, and I like putting my forehead on people,
Speaker 1: so I get to do that up on the line.
Speaker 1: What is good, right guardek? What it's good? Brother? Speaking
Speaker 1: of it? Was the second sack you set up with
Speaker 1: the bullrush, didn't you? I did? So. Every football is
Speaker 1: a physical sport, so I try to set everything up
Speaker 1: off of contact. I want to. I want to get
Speaker 1: into an offensive environment first before we're gonna figure figure
Speaker 1: out how I'm gonna get around them. Okay, tell me
Speaker 1: about your dance. Okay, can you tell me about those dance?
Speaker 1: I mean, did you practice that dance? Dennis? Tell me
Speaker 1: the truth? I mean, everything on Sunday has been rehearsed before,
Speaker 1: so obviously obviously the second one had been done before.
Speaker 1: That's kind of my go to move m when I'm
Speaker 1: feeling the music I practice when I'm at home listening
Speaker 1: to music, making my dinner. That's kind of that's right there. Well,
Speaker 1: I was, you know what. I'm so proud of you
Speaker 1: for actually admitting that on the air. Well. Earlier today,
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson was turned into a judge for like Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars, okay, and he was asked a rate
Speaker 1: your sack dances, starting with the second one he started
Speaker 1: with you called hitting the Strobe, and then the first
Speaker 1: one you titled Turned the ConA. And so here's Pat
Speaker 1: p and his rankings. The one he did like this,
Speaker 1: I actually liked that one. That one's actually pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I would have gave that one seven. But the other
Speaker 1: one with the jet thing, I really wasn't digging out him.
Speaker 1: Give that at three, all right? And then you you
Speaker 1: did the math with the media day. Go ahead, reiterate
Speaker 1: what you said earlier about how the equation you came
Speaker 1: up with. Yeah, just some quick math there. Seven and
Speaker 1: three is ten. So I'm taking a ten out of ten.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna we're not gonna talk about the ten
Speaker 1: points I didn't get we're talking about the ten I did. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: love it, love the creative math on that one. That's
Speaker 1: now to what degree? So they are rehearsed, they are premeditated,
Speaker 1: you have practiced them, Okay, because I was going to
Speaker 1: say it did look a little instantaneous spur of the moment.
Speaker 1: So going forward, what's your approach? I think I think
Speaker 1: the people have decided to hit the strobe is to
Speaker 1: go to move nice. Yes, I think we're gonna make
Speaker 1: that a signature move now. So Dennis, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to ask you any questions where you're going to give
Speaker 1: away inside information here, but is it safe to assume
Speaker 1: that you're continuing to receive a lot of reps on
Speaker 1: the edge coming up? Uh? Yeah, Well, I think it's
Speaker 1: going to kind of be a gradual process. M But
Speaker 1: I definitely think I've cracked the rotation um and when
Speaker 1: the reps come, I'm gonna run out there the same
Speaker 1: way I ran out last week and give everything I got. Well,
Speaker 1: there's nothing like your first snaps und defense, your first
Speaker 1: two sacks on defense, and then of course there was
Speaker 1: the game ball that came with it. Let's go into
Speaker 1: the Cardinals locker room courtesy of asy Cardinals dot Com.
Speaker 1: There at five am when I walked through, all right
Speaker 1: to get breakfast works his ass off had two saxes today,
Speaker 1: Dennis Garden, appreciate your boys. Appreciate it. They were calling
Speaker 1: for you to give a speech longer than your speech,
Speaker 1: so but I was feeling, you know, nobody likes to
Speaker 1: give an impromptu speech like that. Nobody likes to be
Speaker 1: in that position. So I was feeling for you there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Yeah, I had to give an impromptu speech
Speaker 1: in my speech class and uh college, and it went
Speaker 1: about that. Well. That's, by the way, you and Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury probably get along well because you're both early risers,
Speaker 1: aren't you. Yeah, then getting a head start on your
Speaker 1: day kind of helps settle into into the routine and
Speaker 1: get me going for practice and get me ready for
Speaker 1: everything I need to do. You know what, Dennis, I
Speaker 1: think back to your rookie year and immediately I recognize
Speaker 1: the fact that you were going to be a ball
Speaker 1: or in particular in transition on special teams, a transitional
Speaker 1: technician bawling out, and I remember saying to you, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you get year two rookie you get year two, you'll
Speaker 1: get ten. And I think you're gonna get that big guy.
Speaker 1: And we're going to get into the special teams next,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk a little bit about his background. Well
Speaker 1: if you went to West Virginia, he started at West
Speaker 1: Virginia State. Or remember, if you can play, you will play.
Speaker 1: They will find you. Continue with Dennis Gardeck on the
Speaker 1: big red rate presented by satan Ford in Gilbert will
Speaker 1: snap it from the thirty six. Swiznowski stands at a
Speaker 1: twenty two yard line and the punt is blocked. It
Speaker 1: was blocked by Ezekiel Turner, recovered by Gardak who gets
Speaker 1: up and runs at the fifteen and he's tackled at
Speaker 1: the ten. All the Cardinals their punt return went right
Speaker 1: through the forty nine ers protection with warm pastry. All
Speaker 1: that is sweet baby, right there, Zeke Turner getting the block.
Speaker 1: That is a huge play by the Cardinals special teams.
Speaker 1: And this should turn the momentum of this game. Who black,
Speaker 1: who brought me? That's Prude Baker right there. He was
Speaker 1: all miked up for that. And you guys, that's right, Walfa.
Speaker 1: You guys called it that Cardinals are down ten nothing.
Speaker 1: Week one at the Niners Cardinals would not be three
Speaker 1: and two, I don't think right now without that block
Speaker 1: punt and the recovery by Dennis Gardeck, our special guest
Speaker 1: here on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford
Speaker 1: in Bird and no one has ever had to tell
Speaker 1: those guys, Buddha Baker, Zeke Turner or Dennis Gardeck by Oe,
Speaker 1: bring your own energy. Those guys are always flying all
Speaker 1: over the field. And do you have to have that
Speaker 1: Dennis sort of in your DNA to play special teams.
Speaker 1: That's sort of one of those prerequisites because Wolf went
Speaker 1: to four Pro Bowls as special teamers and that's the
Speaker 1: way he played. Yeah, yeah, I think it's definitely a
Speaker 1: separate breed of player on special teams, and we're lucky
Speaker 1: to have a bunch of them on our team. You
Speaker 1: know what I loved about special teams. If in fact
Speaker 1: aliens we're going to land on this planet and you
Speaker 1: wanted to show them what football was all about, you
Speaker 1: put on a kickoff cover reel. That's what you do
Speaker 1: right there, right Dennis. No more football of a play
Speaker 1: than kickoff. That's why every game starts with one. That's
Speaker 1: exactly right, and it's still it's still I think when
Speaker 1: they return it, it's still maybe the most physical play
Speaker 1: in football. Would you say that it is the most
Speaker 1: physical play still in football? Uh, it's definitely the most
Speaker 1: high speed. I'm not going to say the most physical,
Speaker 1: pretty physical right when you say high high impact, right
Speaker 1: when you sigh when you say high speed, though, I
Speaker 1: think of impact as well. Yeah, and are you still trashing?
Speaker 1: You're able to trash dudes, I'd kickoff cover correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's not the wedge anymore. I feel like the
Speaker 1: wedge was just absolute. I know you. You had to
Speaker 1: be the wedge buster. Yes, yes, that's what I did. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. It's not nearly as brutal
Speaker 1: as it was. But you could still use your eyes
Speaker 1: and really host some dude, can't you. I mean, you
Speaker 1: just absolutely some pretty big collisions. Well, and Dennis, I mean,
Speaker 1: tell us about your love for the game of football,
Speaker 1: because you you talked of a little bit about it
Speaker 1: earlier today. When when you went to West Virginia State,
Speaker 1: you weren't thinking NFL, Right, when you went to the
Speaker 1: University as Sioux Falls, you weren't thinking NFL at least
Speaker 1: at the big in that journey. So what was it
Speaker 1: that drove you? Oh? I think from high school it
Speaker 1: was kind of like if we're doing it like a relationship,
Speaker 1: it's more of like an infatuation where you're kind of
Speaker 1: in love with all the motions and kind of all
Speaker 1: the glitz and the glamour and running fast and hitting
Speaker 1: hard and doing those kind of things. But as you
Speaker 1: kind of get to know football and you learn about
Speaker 1: it and you can find how much better you can be,
Speaker 1: and you're finding all these areas to improve and how
Speaker 1: a film steady plays a part into you know, preparing
Speaker 1: for a game and all that stuff. I just there's
Speaker 1: so many different things to work on. I just I
Speaker 1: love football and how it it takes every ounce of
Speaker 1: your focus and there's nothing else going on except for
Speaker 1: the man across from me. So yeah, I just love
Speaker 1: that feeling and it's amazing. Well. Pat p today was
Speaker 1: asked about Dennis Gardak and he cited, among other things,
Speaker 1: just Dennis's love for the game. It doesn't matter where
Speaker 1: you come from, you know, and if you have love
Speaker 1: and passions for the game, you play with energy and
Speaker 1: with a tenacity. Everything should take care of yourself. So
Speaker 1: and Dennis pleased with those intangible So let me tell
Speaker 1: that he's a he's a grinder, he's a dogs you know.
Speaker 1: So it's hard to deny a guy that had that
Speaker 1: type of character. You know. Andy Isabella told us a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago here in the Big Red Rage,
Speaker 1: Dennis that it took him a good part of his
Speaker 1: rookie year to really have that supreme confidence that he belongs,
Speaker 1: that he came from U mass and you know that
Speaker 1: it was a confidence thing for him initially. Did you
Speaker 1: ever go through that stage when you entered the NFL? Yeah, definitely. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, even from rookie mini camp where I'm showing
Speaker 1: up we're all technically in the same boat. But I
Speaker 1: went to Sue Falls and everybody was a big ten
Speaker 1: in Washington and all these big like I'll watch you
Speaker 1: guys on TV. My games were streamed on a computer. Um,
Speaker 1: So there's always kind of been that confidence thing of
Speaker 1: like I do I really have what it takes. And
Speaker 1: I think the biggest way for me to kind of
Speaker 1: overcome that is to just lock into all right. This
Speaker 1: week during film study, we knew this, this, this and
Speaker 1: this I need to do this to be in good
Speaker 1: position to make my play, and then it really shouldn't
Speaker 1: matter who's across from me because I have all the
Speaker 1: things that I need to do in mind. There's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it, Dennis. I mean, honestly, you're thinking correctly
Speaker 1: right now right Are you willing to give more than
Speaker 1: your opponent? That is a question that I will ask you, Dennis.
Speaker 1: Are you willing to give more than your opponent is
Speaker 1: willing to give? Yeah? Definitely, And I think I think
Speaker 1: that begins at the beginning of the week. That doesn't
Speaker 1: That doesn't just mean on Sundays run harder. It means
Speaker 1: that I did I do more throughout the week to
Speaker 1: prepare for you who I'm lined up across. Well, Coach
Speaker 1: Kingsbury has said your quote hell on wheels on the
Speaker 1: scout team blowing up his offense during practice. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're like You're like during the week
Speaker 1: during practice, Dennis, but it definitely caught the attention to
Speaker 1: the head coach. That is the one. Yeah, I love.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and and look, we don't get
Speaker 1: to see practice, but I can envision based on what
Speaker 1: I just saw out there against the Jets with your
Speaker 1: motor and non stop, and you know coach is trying
Speaker 1: to run a few plays and he's got forty five
Speaker 1: busting everything up in there. So that's good stuff. As
Speaker 1: we continue with Dennis Gardeck here on the Big Red Rage.
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Speaker 1: into this a little bit more. And what exactly a
Speaker 1: straight ahead on Monday night and what that means against
Speaker 1: this Cowboys offense and Zekiel Elliott all next to the
Speaker 1: Big Red Rage. Chase Edmonds in the backfoot with Murray
Speaker 1: third down in one of the twenty nine four receivers
Speaker 1: set shotgun snap. It's a run play right side, big
Speaker 1: hole Edmonds twenty five, twenty ten five touchdown, the inside
Speaker 1: zone being run and Chase Edmonds found the hole in
Speaker 1: to the house baby twenty nine the yard touchdown run
Speaker 1: on third down and one for Chase Edmonds. All four
Speaker 1: of Chase Edmonds touchdowns at Medlife twenty yards are longer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was straight out of the Giants game last year.
Speaker 1: In fact, you guys want a Holy Conoli stat here
Speaker 1: on the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert.
Speaker 1: Who leads the NFL in touchdown runs of twenty yards
Speaker 1: or longer over the last two years. Chase Edmonds he
Speaker 1: has five total. Christian McCaffrey, the all paro running back
Speaker 1: who's paid like a billion dollars, has four. Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: has five. Wolf how about that? That is just absolutely stunning.
Speaker 1: Bullie and Dennis Gardeck is our guests in the Big
Speaker 1: Red Right, what is it like to be in space
Speaker 1: against whether it's Chase Edmonds or another dynamic running back
Speaker 1: or skill guy? You tell me just what is that
Speaker 1: like as a defender be in space against some of
Speaker 1: these guys with all that athleticism here at the NFL level. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: me and Chase have already had this discussion. We were
Speaker 1: in off season training and you know there's obviously conversations
Speaker 1: or do you think you could tackle me in the
Speaker 1: open field? And I said, look, if you got the
Speaker 1: ball in your hands, I'm gonna shoot my shot. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it's to my leverage. Somebody else is there to clean
Speaker 1: it up. I might get a hand on you. But
Speaker 1: I think you just got to play as fast as
Speaker 1: possible and make something happen quick. That way, you're not
Speaker 1: on ESPN Top ten. All right, Dennis, listen, No, I
Speaker 1: want to ask I want to get into Monday night
Speaker 1: football here, but I got to ask you this rapid fire.
Speaker 1: If you don't mind, let's rapid fire right here. Some
Speaker 1: special teams questions. I want to clean this up from
Speaker 1: the last beautiful part of the program. Your favorite special
Speaker 1: team to play what is it? Kick off? Kickoff block? Okay,
Speaker 1: why explain that? Look, they just got to sit there
Speaker 1: and take it. And I love that that. I can
Speaker 1: just run full speed into you. You just got to
Speaker 1: sit there in two hand punch. That's a good That
Speaker 1: is an excellent answer right there. Okay. The energy that
Speaker 1: you bring. Is this something you talk to your teammates
Speaker 1: about on special teams? Is this something that you, as
Speaker 1: a captain you talk to these guys about, or is
Speaker 1: it something they just know everybody in transition, everybody on
Speaker 1: special teams expects. Yeah. I think it's just something that's
Speaker 1: kind of understood. We're a pretty lively group and we're
Speaker 1: always feeding off of each other. So okay, I don't
Speaker 1: have the juice one place, somebody else and got it
Speaker 1: and then I'm right there with him. Okay, So how
Speaker 1: much do you lobby Jeff Rogers if you say, hey, coach,
Speaker 1: you know what we can do this, pop this thing up,
Speaker 1: we'll cover this Kike and we'll stuff him inside the fifteen.
Speaker 1: How much do you get in Jeff Rogers face. I
Speaker 1: think he's a great coach, so I let him do
Speaker 1: his thing, but I do I nudge gently. I think
Speaker 1: that would be kind of kind of the best way
Speaker 1: to put it is just hey, you know, I was thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, we've already got two inside the twenty one
Speaker 1: for a third, right, Well, we look at this money
Speaker 1: night game and let's start it always starts was stopping
Speaker 1: the run, right guys. And they have Ezekiel Elliott and
Speaker 1: he's top five in touches twenty two touches a game
Speaker 1: and without Dak Prescott. Now I'm guessing that's gonna go up.
Speaker 1: So you need to figure out what do you do
Speaker 1: as a defense if your advanced Joseph minus Chandler Jones,
Speaker 1: and he said earlier today about Devon Conard's back practicing,
Speaker 1: that might be an option as son Reddick, Dennis Gardeck.
Speaker 1: You know Zach Allen can move out to the edge
Speaker 1: at times of act. Here's a vance Joseph earlier today
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. And how number forty five, our guest,
Speaker 1: Dennis Gardack figures in from day one in training camp.
Speaker 1: You know two last week, what you saw last week,
Speaker 1: that's what training camp look like. I mean, he just
Speaker 1: rushed off the ash with speed and power and he's
Speaker 1: made play. So hopefully he can get better and better
Speaker 1: with more opportunities and help us, help us adds to
Speaker 1: our patch rush Dennis, do you think whoever's out there
Speaker 1: in that rotation the Cowboys are going to test you
Speaker 1: guys early and often. Absolutely, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: great test on Monday night. Talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: their offense, Dennis, talk about what you're seeing on tape
Speaker 1: right now. In regard to Andy Dalton, I know he
Speaker 1: he only had eleven attempts after Doc Prescott went out,
Speaker 1: of course with the disocated ankle, but he played pretty
Speaker 1: well in the eleven at times. Yeah, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback, so you got to respect him. He's
Speaker 1: been in the league a while. He definitely knows what
Speaker 1: he's doing. Obviously, Zeke's gonna Zeke's gonna do his thing,
Speaker 1: so we gotta we gotta make sure we can keep
Speaker 1: him contained as well. How much you're looking forward to
Speaker 1: the big stage Monday night, that stadium, everything that's going
Speaker 1: to be part of the experience this coming Monday night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna Like I said, it's gonna be awesome test
Speaker 1: of you know, we kind of have been isolated in
Speaker 1: these quarantine games and everything, and this is a Monday night,
Speaker 1: so it's got a totally different feel to it. And
Speaker 1: excited to see how the team responds. How does the
Speaker 1: team feel right now? Being three and two on the season, right, Um,
Speaker 1: you're coming off a win where everybody expected you to
Speaker 1: beat the New York Jets, But the two weeks before that,
Speaker 1: Dennis for the most part, against the Lions and against
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers, there were a lot of people that thought,
Speaker 1: you guys went out there and disappointed. How is it
Speaker 1: going inside that locker room? How's it going in terms
Speaker 1: of everyone's mental condition? Being three and two on the season,
Speaker 1: I think everybody's got the right mindset. We were definitely
Speaker 1: frustrated with the results the previous two weeks. But I
Speaker 1: don't think it really got to anyone so much that
Speaker 1: they're trying to do too much or or you know,
Speaker 1: trying to make something happened by themselves. Coach said, there's
Speaker 1: no fourteen point play, so we just got to go
Speaker 1: play our game once, not at a time. And it
Speaker 1: seems like everybody's locked in, focused and excited for every opportunity.
Speaker 1: How much do you keep in touch with your brother?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking your phone probably blowed up right after you
Speaker 1: had the two sad game, And I know your brother
Speaker 1: plays minor league baseball, right Ian? He does? Ian? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we stay in contact quite a bit. He's helped me
Speaker 1: kind of throughout this whole process. I'm showing me the
Speaker 1: ropes of what the professional athlete life is like. Some
Speaker 1: things translate, somethings do not translate from baseball to football. Yeah, sure, dentist,
Speaker 1: do you want ten years? Do you want ten years
Speaker 1: in this league? Absolutely? Would you go twelve? I'm here
Speaker 1: for as long as football will have me. Do you
Speaker 1: have any idea, dentist, what you'd want to do when
Speaker 1: you're done? I mean, do you allow yourself to think
Speaker 1: about that? This is always fascinating to me, especially when
Speaker 1: the guys in year three of his career, do you
Speaker 1: allow yourself to think about what it is you want
Speaker 1: to be when you're done playing ball? Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually do let myself kind of daydream a little bit.
Speaker 1: I wanted to start within our own facility, so I
Speaker 1: actually had a conversation the other day with the nutritionist
Speaker 1: on how much it would be to be on their staff.
Speaker 1: But my go to right now is athletic trainer. I'm
Speaker 1: actually an athletic trainer in training. That is a self
Speaker 1: proclaimed title. Self proclaimed So I, uh, why do you
Speaker 1: say self what? I'm learning the technical terms for it.
Speaker 1: I learned to learn how to spell adema. Wow, all right,
Speaker 1: let her rip. Let's let's hear you're totally my leg right. Oh,
Speaker 1: here we go. Get it's a spelling bee. Let's hear
Speaker 1: it adema. Oh shoot, no, I gotta go through my text.
Speaker 1: I had to. I had to google it. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: mad You know what, honestly I respect that because Wolf
Speaker 1: Wolf spend ten years in an NFL training room and
Speaker 1: all he did was rip other guys. You're in an
Speaker 1: NFL training room and you're actually learning about being a trainer.
Speaker 1: So I respect that about you, Dennis. Yeah. I was
Speaker 1: always asking questions and I always get kind of a
Speaker 1: a questioning kind of like how did you know? Like
Speaker 1: what do you actually know what you're saying right now?
Speaker 1: Or do you are you just like a parrot and
Speaker 1: you're repeating words that you've heard before. It's a mixture
Speaker 1: of both. I'm not gonna lie, um, but that's what
Speaker 1: that's what passes the time in the training room. Oh, mas,
Speaker 1: Tom Reid and company asked you to leave the training room,
Speaker 1: maybe become a nuisance at times, be honest. Oh, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. Yeah. I think I posted on my Instagram
Speaker 1: and training camp they had me tied up with an
Speaker 1: ace bandage wrap. They um, take me to a chair.
Speaker 1: That is so you're not you're you're you swear to
Speaker 1: me you're not pulling my leg in regard to being
Speaker 1: an athletic trainer. No, I'm trying to absorb as much
Speaker 1: information as I can and I think, uh, I think
Speaker 1: I got the ability to do it, you know. Yeah, okay, right,
Speaker 1: it's good once again. The tennis. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: I'm thinking a code which maybe you know, maybe getting
Speaker 1: in the front office or something like that. I didn't
Speaker 1: think about what a trainer, dude, that's cool though. I
Speaker 1: loved that. I think I'm a helper and I think
Speaker 1: I think those training guys they do a great job
Speaker 1: helping us. And uh, that's something I want to do someday.
Speaker 1: I mean the podcasting an MVP vote during twenty and twenty,
Speaker 1: the year of the pandemic. Tom Reid, Cardinals lead trainer
Speaker 1: gets my MVP vote right now. Well, there you be
Speaker 1: a Dennis. Thanks Dennis Brush, God bless you man, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna get twelve. That's the goal. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, all right, thanks days there you go,
Speaker 1: Dennis Gardeck team Captain Pro Bowl alternative year ago on
Speaker 1: special teams. We will come back and wrap up this
Speaker 1: addition to the big red rage percent of by Santan
Speaker 1: Ford and Gilbert we are satan Ford not good job
Speaker 1: right there? The Arizontle Cardinals rush for they played quarters
Speaker 1: and wolf a guy just runs onto the field and
Speaker 1: starts stripping and it gets drilled at the thirty five
Speaker 1: yard line by a security guard. A cowboy fan I
Speaker 1: think just ran out of the field, took a shirt off.
Speaker 1: I think he was going for the drawers as well,
Speaker 1: and then he got roasted at the thirty five yard
Speaker 1: line by a security guard. Well that's the way you
Speaker 1: knocked the screws off right there. That security guard sign
Speaker 1: them off. They tackled them, and the fan did the
Speaker 1: splits on the thirty five Did you see that. I
Speaker 1: think he ripped his groin out. I think the security
Speaker 1: guard might get a fine. That was against a defenseless receiver,
Speaker 1: so to speak. Taken down anyway you can. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: whipping all right. Oh that was an all timer, great call,
Speaker 1: all time moment. Not so good for the fan, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys fan, we should add, I'd say fifteen years on
Speaker 1: the sideline. I've seen my share down there. Some guys
Speaker 1: reached the field. It's the guys who do not reach
Speaker 1: the field who get pummeled near the white stripe or beyond,
Speaker 1: who decide to engage some of the security guys. Always
Speaker 1: a bad move, trying to decide against that. Life is
Speaker 1: all about decisions. Not only do you get wiped out PAULI,
Speaker 1: but just the fact he did the splits, like media
Speaker 1: and the bullets growing rip that thing right out. It's
Speaker 1: the big Red rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert
Speaker 1: And that's fitting because the Cardinals are playing the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: They're playing on Monday Night. It's fitting because you know,
Speaker 1: that's the good way Dennis Gardek plays. He was our
Speaker 1: special guest and you got a Cardinals team going back
Speaker 1: to Texas. Before we get into all that, let's hear
Speaker 1: from Patrick Peterson and just his thoughts earlier today, and
Speaker 1: he was asked about the big stage of Monday Night,
Speaker 1: our first time on the national stage. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a great outing for us to go out there
Speaker 1: and to make sure that we performed at our best,
Speaker 1: to put the world on notice that we are our
Speaker 1: team that is here for real. You know that we
Speaker 1: have a great team, a great coaching staff, and we
Speaker 1: finally start to put together and I believe I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna start helping us turn that corner as a team
Speaker 1: once again. I don't think energy or intensity is going
Speaker 1: to be an issue on Monday Night, right Wolf. I mean,
Speaker 1: even to this day, Monday Night is, in the words
Speaker 1: of Cliff Kingsbury, super extra for a locker room. No,
Speaker 1: you're right, Polly about that. I think the energy definitely
Speaker 1: is going to be there. It's not that ten am
Speaker 1: body clock start. Either you don't have that going on.
Speaker 1: And I just really like the fact the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: they came out with a ton of energy against the
Speaker 1: New York Jets. Well that's exactly what I think they're
Speaker 1: going to have to bring as well. This is something Polly,
Speaker 1: especially without the fans, this is something I know you've
Speaker 1: been talking about, but it's so true. You've got to
Speaker 1: create your own energy, right is it? You always say, Polly,
Speaker 1: bring me Yoe, bring your own energy, bring your own energy.
Speaker 1: And Polly, honestly, right now, this is what you've got
Speaker 1: to do. You've got to bring that intensity to the field.
Speaker 1: And it's the reason why I asked Dennis Gardeck. I
Speaker 1: asked him, you guys talk about this, do you talk
Speaker 1: about it? He listens, we've got to get ready to go,
Speaker 1: and we've got to be ready to go from the
Speaker 1: first snap. Get yourself ready to go. Paul, I remember
Speaker 1: distinctly challenging guys, guys in the locker room, challenging each
Speaker 1: other and saying some pretty nasty things to each other
Speaker 1: as well, to get you ready for snap one. You
Speaker 1: can't tell me that Cliff and Kyler aren't already ready
Speaker 1: to go when they're going back home as guys who
Speaker 1: grew up on Friday night lights, now they're on Monday
Speaker 1: Night for the first time. Cliff and Kyler Wolf they
Speaker 1: gotta have something super extra waiting for the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: in this one and Paula. Honestly, right now, I think
Speaker 1: we're in store for something special on Monday Night with
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and this offense and Andy Dalton. Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: a guy that is from Fort Worth, yep, are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Well? Kyle has already won three state titles.
Speaker 1: He's six and ozo in that building between high school
Speaker 1: and college or Jim Alma Hunter and Cody Fincher, Ron
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