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Speaker 7: So most weeks during the season, Ron Wolfley, the Cardinals
Speaker 7: social media team, sets up a camera and they have
Speaker 7: a question ready for the players as they come off.
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Speaker 1: You got to ask one question right now? What is good?
Speaker 1: Guard Deck? We will just crush the enemy. That's what's good.
Speaker 5: Guess what.
Speaker 7: You're gonna have a lot of time to ask a
Speaker 7: lot of questions coming up on this edition of The
Speaker 7: Big Red Rage presented by Santane Ford and Gilbert. So,
Speaker 7: Dennis Gardak a very special guest, and it was a
Speaker 7: special performance by the Cardinals defense in a lot of ways.
Speaker 7: We'll get into it in depth, but it was a
Speaker 7: close game. The Cardinals led in the fourth quarter. I
Speaker 7: think shocked a lot of the naysayers out there across
Speaker 7: the country that they kept it close on the road
Speaker 7: in a building that was definitely lit.
Speaker 5: It was sold out.
Speaker 7: I've heard different people on the Washington side say that
Speaker 7: was the most energy, the most volume they've heard in
Speaker 7: that stadium in many years. Cardinals came out and look,
Speaker 7: they did the most of what they could on the
Speaker 7: offensive side. In fact, Josh Dobbs and company, you knew
Speaker 7: it was going to be a challenge, and you heard
Speaker 7: what he said after the game. Wolf, Let's just get
Speaker 7: right to it where he said, I think a big
Speaker 7: jump is in store.
Speaker 5: Is that realistic?
Speaker 1: No? I think that is realistic, Bully, It really is
Speaker 1: because Josh Dopps, once again, what he went through. You know,
Speaker 1: it's well documented, Paul. I think it was seventeen days
Speaker 1: he was with the team before the first start, and
Speaker 1: I think he had nine practices if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: Right now, getting to know your teammates and just getting
Speaker 1: to know the scheme and going out there and the
Speaker 1: flow of the game. Look, we all know the reasons,
Speaker 1: and they are reasons, they're not excuses. There are reasons
Speaker 1: why Josh Dobbs may have gone out there and looked
Speaker 1: like he was struggling a little bit to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: We can clearly see the reasons why And because of that, Paul,
Speaker 1: I think another week of being in this system, another
Speaker 1: week of being around his teammates, another week of saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: now we've broken the ice. I really do leave that
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs is going to play much better this time around.
Speaker 1: I'll be stunned if he doesn't.
Speaker 7: NFL Network all week they've been talking about how and
Speaker 7: I'm quoting them now the Morning Show et Cepa saying
Speaker 7: Week one is a liar. That's their saying about the NFL.
Speaker 7: And look, if you if you look around the league,
Speaker 7: and I know the moniker on the NFL has been oh,
Speaker 7: it's a passing league. Well, nineteen or the thirty two
Speaker 7: teams had less than two hundred yards passing as a team,
Speaker 7: and the last time that happened was Week three, two
Speaker 7: thousand and eight. So a lot of the passing numbers,
Speaker 7: a lot of the scoring totals were down in a
Speaker 7: large way across the league. Now Cardinals have their own
Speaker 7: challenge with a brand new quarterback, and we'll get into
Speaker 7: the offense a little bit. But here's Josh Dobbs meeting
Speaker 7: the media this week, and he was asked basically that
Speaker 7: same question. Wasn't what does it look like now versus then?
Speaker 8: You know sometimes in the game, like that was the
Speaker 8: first time throwing that route to that guy full speed,
Speaker 8: just by the nature of the situation. But you know,
Speaker 8: it's going to continue to grow, you know. I feel
Speaker 8: like from where we were last Wednesday that this Wednesday
Speaker 8: is like nine and day just understanding each other, understand
Speaker 8: the flow and the rhythm of the offense, and so
Speaker 8: just continue to grow as we get more time and
Speaker 8: more time on task on the field.
Speaker 7: Some of the stats that stood out negative plays fourteen
Speaker 7: to the fifty eight plays run went for negative yardage.
Speaker 7: Jonathan Gannet cited that he cited third down too often.
Speaker 7: They were in third and long. Cardinals went four fourteen,
Speaker 7: zero for two in the red zone two hundred and
Speaker 7: eleven total yards. Zach Ertz was pretty blunt after the game.
Speaker 7: He said, this should be the worst performance we have
Speaker 7: as an offense, meaning it's only going to improve from
Speaker 7: here once we get more time with this quarterback, Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely right, Pauly, I totally agree with what zach
Speaker 1: ert said after the game. Can I just tell you
Speaker 1: right now, Josh Dobbs has got to protect the ball better.
Speaker 1: If there's one thing I want from Josh Dobbs, I
Speaker 1: want him to protect the ball better. Three times he
Speaker 1: put the ball on the ground, of course, two of
Speaker 1: them the Arizona Cardinals loss when he fumbled, and three
Speaker 1: times there were three drops by the Commander's defense as well.
Speaker 1: And now look again, we know all the reasons why
Speaker 1: that happened, but it can't happen in this game here
Speaker 1: because if that happens again where you exposed the ball
Speaker 1: the amount of times that Josh Dobbs did to a
Speaker 1: possible turnover, that's not going to go well for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: He's got to protect the ball above all else.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm as guilty as anyone of forgetting that.
Speaker 7: Although it's year seven, that was his third career start,
Speaker 7: he doesn't have a lot of experience, just his ninth
Speaker 7: NFL game overall, So I'm curious to see what he
Speaker 7: looks like. For example, you go to the end of
Speaker 7: last season where he had those two starts, the first
Speaker 7: two starts of his career to finish the year off
Speaker 7: for the Titans, where he's brand new in that situation
Speaker 7: as well. Obviously, the second start was a lot better
Speaker 7: than the first start. So I'm wondering if he's using
Speaker 7: that as the basis for his proclamation after the game
Speaker 7: where he said, quote, I think a huge is in store.
Speaker 5: We'll see about that.
Speaker 7: Jonathan Gannon was asked about, Okay, what was holding the
Speaker 7: offense back at Washington.
Speaker 9: The negative yardage place, you know, and that kind of
Speaker 9: set us back on some things. And you're playing a
Speaker 9: game in third and long all day. It's it's tough.
Speaker 9: You know, that's a good defense, and they execute well
Speaker 9: and they give you a lot of different things. So
Speaker 9: I think to help ourselves out, we got to eliminate
Speaker 9: some of the negative yardage plays. Obviously the two turnovers.
Speaker 9: You want to turn the ball over.
Speaker 7: Look, Jonathan Gannan has a saying adapt or die, meaning
Speaker 7: you need to be what you can be to beat
Speaker 7: your opponent each and every week. So I think a
Speaker 7: big question, too, Wolf is if you're talking about the
Speaker 7: offensive identity, how much of last week was just sort
Speaker 7: of an anomaly because you were trying to go horizontal
Speaker 7: sideline to sideline to wear out what could be the
Speaker 7: best defensive front you'll face all.
Speaker 1: Year, right, BALI, And that was it right there? That
Speaker 1: to me, I don't think they crammed the ball vertical enough,
Speaker 1: and I wonder if they regret that a little bit
Speaker 1: this week. Right now, I don't think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the case coming up this week right here, offensively, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to pound the rock, PAULI. This is key
Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals against the New York Giants, and
Speaker 1: week number two, they're gonna have to pound the rock.
Speaker 1: James Connor, to me, was the most important name on
Speaker 1: the cards injury report this week. I saw that. Listen,
Speaker 1: the Giants struggled to stop the run in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys were able to run the ball on them.
Speaker 1: Last week. The Giants were number twenty seven and number
Speaker 1: thirty one in rushing yards per game and rushing yards
Speaker 1: per play, respectively. They need James Connor to be healthy,
Speaker 1: they need that offensive line to be coming off the ball,
Speaker 1: and they need to run the ball in a more
Speaker 1: north south fashion, and I think they will, Paul, I'm
Speaker 1: sure of it.
Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, there's losing twenty to sixteen
Speaker 7: at Washington. There's losing forty to nothing in your opener
Speaker 7: at home where you were getting boot by Giants fans
Speaker 7: before halftime, things got sideways in a hurry. There were
Speaker 7: two non offensive touchdowns to start that game, and then
Speaker 7: Dallas just started going after. I mean, they just went
Speaker 7: hunting pin their ears back. They had seven sacks, they
Speaker 7: had twelve quarterback hits. So that was all part of
Speaker 7: that beatdown in Week one. But for the Cardinals going
Speaker 7: against that Wink Martindale defense, to your point, not only
Speaker 7: do I believe they will put more of an emphasis
Speaker 7: on running the ball, but Wink Martindale is known for
Speaker 7: man cover and so for example, Zach Ertz got ten
Speaker 7: targets and Marquise Hollywood Brown got five. I'd like to
Speaker 7: see the Cardinals flip that. You try and get that
Speaker 7: downfield passing attack going and maybe taking advantage of the speed,
Speaker 7: the elite speed by Hollywood Brown, especially against some inexperienced
Speaker 7: rookie corners. The Giants are going to run out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, I'm really glad to hear you say that, PAULI.
Speaker 1: That is right on the money right there, because that's
Speaker 1: exactly what they need to do. It's not like the
Speaker 1: New York Giants secondary or a bunch of ball. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, in twenty twenty two, they were
Speaker 1: number thirty one an interception rate in the National Football League. Well,
Speaker 1: there's only thirty two teams. They were number thirty one
Speaker 1: right there. They're not going to turn you over on
Speaker 1: a regular basis right now. So I think, yes, you
Speaker 1: can take some shots down the field, and I think
Speaker 1: you have to. And that was one of the things
Speaker 1: that I was a little disappointed in last week as well.
Speaker 1: I don't think we saw as many shots down the field,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of that had to do
Speaker 1: with the fact that it was more of a horizontal
Speaker 1: game plan than it was vertical.
Speaker 7: And one thing Jonathan Gannon did say after the game
Speaker 7: in Washington his postgame press or, he said, the ball
Speaker 7: needs to come out quicker talking about Josh Dobbs, and
Speaker 7: you know it makes you wonder. Okay, here he is,
Speaker 7: he's got two weeks in the system, his third career start.
Speaker 7: To what degree might have been buffering at quarterback to
Speaker 7: use that Josh rosenterm and how much better could it
Speaker 7: be this week? How much more decisive could he be
Speaker 7: trying to get the ball to some of these receivers
Speaker 7: and targets down.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's not even close. It really is not. Again
Speaker 1: to be able to go out on the field in
Speaker 1: week one and do it live where guys are going
Speaker 1: full speed. I'm just stunned. I mean, think about it.
Speaker 1: He didn't have any full speed practices with the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like they were going live. They weren't going live.
Speaker 1: His first live appearance with this team is literally in
Speaker 1: week one. To me, it was really an amazing performance
Speaker 1: when you consider all things, and hopefully Josh Dopps is
Speaker 1: only going to get better.
Speaker 7: This week we talk about how September is the new
Speaker 7: August in the NFL, most definitely the case for Josh Dopps.
Speaker 7: He's still trying to get his feet under him. Episode
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Speaker 4: Good physical start for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: That is a mentality and I love it.
Speaker 4: The Cardinals physicality is triggered some big plays Cardinals again
Speaker 4: after the play pushing and shoving. A message has been sent, though.
Speaker 1: What is that message, David?
Speaker 4: That messages we will fight you. Cro Holt was in
Speaker 4: there throwing hands.
Speaker 1: You like that, Wolf, Yeah, you got that right, That's
Speaker 1: all I get Wolf.
Speaker 5: Yeah, cro Holt throwing hands.
Speaker 4: Give me a little love on that.
Speaker 1: Love that nights they give you a look closely. You
Speaker 1: can see somebody's lip on the twenty six yard line.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Look at the mentality that is starting
Speaker 1: to form right here.
Speaker 4: One thing's for sure. This is a team that's going
Speaker 4: to be physical.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The message sent was get off me. That was the
Speaker 7: message sent. It was sent early Kaiser White and everyone
Speaker 7: in that locker room, including Kaizer himself earlier today, agreed.
Speaker 7: The big hit on Sam Howe did set a tone. Now,
Speaker 7: you don't want the personal foul. You would have been
Speaker 7: satisfied with maybe that personal foul. You didn't need the
Speaker 7: three afterwards. You didn't need the three subsequent fifteen yard penalties.
Speaker 7: But I think that was an announcement of proclamation of
Speaker 7: sorts that the Cardinals defense is much different, maybe much
Speaker 7: more physical than we saw a year ago. And coming
Speaker 7: up in a little bit, we'll talk to one of
Speaker 7: the stars of that defense. Dennis Gardek joins us on
Speaker 7: the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert.
Speaker 7: We are santan Ford, Ron woefully give me your thoughts
Speaker 7: just on what you saw. Big takeaways from the Big
Speaker 7: Red d Yeah.
Speaker 1: PAULI you know what I mean. To have the personal
Speaker 1: foul penalties right there, as you said, and you said
Speaker 1: it so well. You don't want that, of course you
Speaker 1: don't want that, but it definitely did send a tone.
Speaker 1: But what really encouraged me is how they played the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. You know, it wasn't where they
Speaker 1: were out there taking cheap shots on everybody, which they weren't.
Speaker 1: Once again, to me, those two personal foul those first
Speaker 1: two personal foul penalties weren't were not personal. They were not.
Speaker 1: And yet in today's NFL, that's what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get hit with stuff like that. I
Speaker 1: love the fact they followed it up with six sacks
Speaker 1: against the Commander, six sacks, and not only that, but
Speaker 1: a three point three average in terms of them running
Speaker 1: the ball. To me, that was the most impressive thing.
Speaker 1: When you want to talk about physicality, I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about the big hits that happened out there. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about those. I'm talking about the the mundane first
Speaker 1: and ten run the ball in between the tackles. How
Speaker 1: did you do then? Were you physical? Then? Man, they
Speaker 1: were physical then. And that's what gets me really jacked up,
Speaker 1: because guess what, Pully, we saw that in the preseason.
Speaker 1: We saw the starting defensive line be very, very physical,
Speaker 1: their gap integrity very sound across the board. We saw
Speaker 1: that in preseason, and there was a big difference in
Speaker 1: the first team and the second team when they were
Speaker 1: out there, that second front as opposed to that first
Speaker 1: team front seven. So I'm encouraged with that. We'll see
Speaker 1: how it goes.
Speaker 7: See you say gap integrity, I say ah, because it's
Speaker 7: what we didn't see. It's what we didn't hear. We
Speaker 7: didn't hear one player after the game lament oh, there
Speaker 7: was a lack of gap integrity that did not happen.
Speaker 7: We didn't hear one say they weren't physical enough. We
Speaker 7: didn't hear anyone say, oh, there was an energy drought
Speaker 7: for a certain portion of the game, and we gave
Speaker 7: up all these unnecessary yards. So I think when you're
Speaker 7: talking about the identity of this Cardinals defense, there was
Speaker 7: a lot to hang your head on, and a lot
Speaker 7: of it is stuff you can control, your effort, your
Speaker 7: intensity right, just the lack of mental errors being at
Speaker 7: the right place at the right time. I had a
Speaker 7: couple guys telling me in the locker room Wolf today
Speaker 7: that it's a small thing to maybe the fans, but
Speaker 7: it's a big thing to the eleven guys on defense
Speaker 7: when a Kaiser White is making the play call early
Speaker 7: so everyone can get set, so you're not scrambling right
Speaker 7: before the snap of the ball, but everyone's set and
Speaker 7: they can actually get their eyes right. And there was
Speaker 7: a lot more of that. They were more sound in
Speaker 7: that regard on defense, and that showed up when you
Speaker 7: think about it. They had a half dozen sacks, they
Speaker 7: had three takeaways, they had seven passes defense, they had
Speaker 7: six tackles for loss. And oh, by the way, the
Speaker 7: only touchdown scored by the Cardinals was by the defense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, let's not forget that right there. It's interesting
Speaker 1: what you just said about Kaizer White though, and getting
Speaker 1: the call out quickly. Obviously he's been in this system.
Speaker 1: He knows this system very very well. It's one of
Speaker 1: the big reasons why Jag and Nick Rawlis brought him
Speaker 1: in here. And he's getting that call out very quickly.
Speaker 1: That to me, Paully is really really cool too, because
Speaker 1: what happens is on some calls, guys are like, hey,
Speaker 1: what do I doing this again?
Speaker 5: By Zackly?
Speaker 1: And you know what, Paul Kayzer is the type of
Speaker 1: guy where he knows that he knows it like the
Speaker 1: DC knows it. He knows it like Nick Rawlis knows it.
Speaker 1: So he can tell the guy what it is he's
Speaker 1: actually doing right there. That man, having another coach out
Speaker 1: on the field is critical.
Speaker 7: And so if you're saying to yourself, man, the Cardinals
Speaker 7: defense looks fast, because that's what a number of giants
Speaker 7: have been quoted as saying in New York when looking
Speaker 7: at the game film of Cardinals in Washington, Man, that
Speaker 7: is a fast, aggressive defense. What you can only play
Speaker 7: fast if you're thinking fast. And how many guys were
Speaker 7: talking in the off season about playing free, more free
Speaker 7: in this JG system because maybe there aren't just as
Speaker 7: many checks or as many aspects of the playbook you
Speaker 7: have to memorize. So there's some basics, you learn those
Speaker 7: and then you react accordingly, use your instincts, your sound
Speaker 7: and your assignments, and then of course you bring the
Speaker 7: physicality and Buddha bic or was talking about that today.
Speaker 10: I like to always think of all of us as dogs.
Speaker 10: You know, all of us are going to not you know,
Speaker 10: let up explosives. A team that's gonna run to the ball,
Speaker 10: dbs that are gonna hit. You can't just get in
Speaker 10: those condensed formations to have the corners tackle because corners
Speaker 10: are gonna come downhill and try to you know, hit
Speaker 10: that outside tieboard. So just a very physical team that
Speaker 10: you know, knowses what to do.
Speaker 7: And by the way, if Pro Football Focus is correct,
Speaker 7: they did the analytics. There were you can count the
Speaker 7: number of mistackles in Week one on one hand by
Speaker 7: the Cardinals, so the tackling was sound. And by the way,
Speaker 7: as far as the dogs goes, if you notice they're
Speaker 7: wearing these t shirts during practice right with dog who
Speaker 7: were written on it and the logo. We found out
Speaker 7: today Zach Pascal was responsible for that, and then it's
Speaker 7: actually an honor of a friend of his who was
Speaker 7: battling cancer, and then he decided to give them to
Speaker 7: every member of the team. So they've been wearing those.
Speaker 7: They've been trying to you know, actually live up to
Speaker 7: that sort of Moniker. Here's the other thing that was interesting.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you saw this, Wolf, is that
Speaker 7: the Cardinals had the second highest pressure rate in terms
Speaker 7: of getting to the quarterback getting into the backfield fifty
Speaker 7: one percent, behind only Dallas. And how they just riped
Speaker 7: the Giants, but their blitz rate was less than eight percent, Yes,
Speaker 7: the lowest in the league.
Speaker 1: That's right, Paul, that's it right there.
Speaker 7: So isn't that a lot like the sort of approach
Speaker 7: that Jonathan Gannett took last year with the Eagles, Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, there's no doubt about it. He did not
Speaker 1: come after the quarterback as much as Eagle fans wanted
Speaker 1: him to do that. And once again, that is a
Speaker 1: hallmark right now of JG. And we'll see if that
Speaker 1: expands a little bit, and I think that eventually it
Speaker 1: will in terms of coming after the quarterback. Let me
Speaker 1: just say this quickly, Paully, because you brought up the
Speaker 1: Giants talking about the Cardinals defense and how fast they look.
Speaker 1: Listen to this. This is interesting. Wink Martindale's Wink Martindale
Speaker 1: is the defensive coordinator for the New York Giants. He
Speaker 1: said this quote. I've always said this philosophically, if you
Speaker 1: have a fast Mike linebacker, then you have a fast defense.
Speaker 1: And he's really fast. Now he was talking about his
Speaker 1: own Mike linebacker, but I was thinking of Kaiser White
Speaker 1: as well, right, Kaiser White, and just how fast he
Speaker 1: really is. And it's not just him, it's everybody else
Speaker 1: but Wink. Martindale went on to say a lot of
Speaker 1: his success, meaning the mic line will depend on how
Speaker 1: we play upfront, and we have seen improvement there as well.
Speaker 1: That is the key to the Arizona Cardinals defense. And
Speaker 1: what we have seen up front, the improvement of their
Speaker 1: defense is because how that defensive line has played.
Speaker 7: Really interesting think about it. The Cardinals tried to draft
Speaker 7: that guy twice in two years, and Isaiah Simmons and
Speaker 7: Zaven Collins say, there's no lack of investment in trying
Speaker 7: to find that guy at the epicenter of your defense,
Speaker 7: that Mike linebacker. And we talked to Kaiser White earlier
Speaker 7: this year on the Big Red Rage, and he said
Speaker 7: his best year in the NFL, in his opinion, was
Speaker 7: the one year he did play Mike linebacker for the Chargers,
Speaker 7: and then he went to the Eagles and they had
Speaker 7: a great Mike linebacker and he had to go to
Speaker 7: Will and he was kind of a backup for time.
Speaker 7: So he's looking forward to everything he has seen in
Speaker 7: this defense and being that guy the reason why he
Speaker 7: was named a captain. I can't tell you how many
Speaker 7: guys cited him in the locker room as a big
Speaker 7: key to this defense. Now, I mean in terms of
Speaker 7: the mentals and in terms of the physical nature that
Speaker 7: he brings to the game.
Speaker 1: And Paul, this is going to be critical against the Giants,
Speaker 1: of course, because the New York Giants are going to
Speaker 1: come in here and would you say they're going to
Speaker 1: be a little upset, Paul, They're going to be a
Speaker 1: little put out.
Speaker 7: With If not, they're going to have a losing season.
Speaker 1: With a forty did nothing, drumming, drubbing I should say
Speaker 1: at home right now, I think they're going to come
Speaker 1: in here and we're going to see a ton of
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley. We're going to see the Giants line up
Speaker 1: and attack the line of scrimmage. We're going to see
Speaker 1: them come in here and say, we don't believe what
Speaker 1: we saw last week out of your defensive front. We're
Speaker 1: going to run the ball north south right at you.
Speaker 1: That's what I expect to see the New York Giants
Speaker 1: come in here to do. And one of the big
Speaker 1: reasons why they have to put Daniel Jones in a
Speaker 1: balance to offense. They got to get Saquon Barkley going
Speaker 1: to help Daniel Jones.
Speaker 7: Look, he had one carry Saquon Barkley in the sun
Speaker 7: and half because the game was such a route it
Speaker 7: was twenty six to nothing at the half. The home
Speaker 7: team was getting food by the Giants fans. So if
Speaker 7: you can take Saquon Barkley out of the game, they're
Speaker 7: gonna win that game against the Giants because he's by
Speaker 7: far their biggest and best weapon on offense. You're talking
Speaker 7: about Daniel Jones. I know he got the big money
Speaker 7: four years, one sixty. He only had fifteen touchdown passes
Speaker 7: last year. That's not what the Giants do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Giants number four and number five respectfully of
Speaker 1: course in yards per game, rushing yards per game, and
Speaker 1: rushing yards per play.
Speaker 7: And by the way, the quarterbacks the Cardinals face going forward,
Speaker 7: they ramp up from a Sam Howe. When you think
Speaker 7: about Daniel Jones of Dak Prescott, a brock perty a,
Speaker 7: Joe Burrow, Matthew Stafford, right, Geno Smith, Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson.
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Speaker 1: If they're doing a party, it's a little dance the
Speaker 1: strobe of Dennis Gardack right.
Speaker 4: There, straight drop and trouble be chased by gard Deck and.
Speaker 3: He fumbles the ball and it's picked up at the
Speaker 3: two yard line and it's a touchdown picked up by
Speaker 3: Cam Thomas after the force fumbled by gard Deck and
Speaker 3: Thomas is in for the touchdown and the Cardinals have
Speaker 3: the lead.
Speaker 5: Knock the pig out of the barn.
Speaker 1: Baby, we got a pig rolling on the ground.
Speaker 4: Touchdown, caught at the forty five and drilled again Dennis
Speaker 4: Gardack with the hit.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're the meat stick and sometimes you're the carnival.
Speaker 1: And I think Dennis gard Deck is picking tearing the
Speaker 1: colorin out.
Speaker 7: Of his teeth, all right, Dave laughed. I laughed down
Speaker 7: on the sideline. I'll give you props in that one, Wilf.
Speaker 7: That was very well done. You guys were regular season ready,
Speaker 7: but not quite to the caliber a game turned in
Speaker 7: by Dennis gardek our guest tonight, in fact quoting a
Speaker 7: teammate a few hours ago in the locker room when
Speaker 7: he was asked for his favorite sack. The Cardinals defense
Speaker 7: had a half dozen, What was your favorite? And his
Speaker 7: answer was, and I'm quoting, oh DG, my guy, that
Speaker 7: spin move was nasty. That was Jonathan Ledbetter, by the way,
Speaker 7: about your spin move. Dennis Gardeck is our guest on
Speaker 7: The Big Red Rage, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. So,
Speaker 7: what has your week been like? Thank you for the time,
Speaker 7: because I know you've been in demand, have you not?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been you know, it's that roller coaster that
Speaker 6: you got to kind of fight riding that wave. But
Speaker 6: it's been exciting and we're looking forward to another week
Speaker 6: of getting after the quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know what's amazing about this, Dennis? Right now? Six years,
Speaker 1: this is your sixth year. Are you blown away by that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's flying by. I don't feel like, I've
Speaker 6: been in the league for six years yet.
Speaker 7: But you know so, I said earlier in the show
Speaker 7: that the Cards camp this week, social media team sets
Speaker 7: up the camera with the question of the week favorite
Speaker 7: football movie. I said, things keep tracking like this, Hollywood's
Speaker 7: going to make a movie out.
Speaker 1: Of your story.
Speaker 7: For those who aren't familiar, just just tell them about
Speaker 7: where you play college football right before you were an
Speaker 7: undrafted guy twenty eighteen, and how concerned were you at
Speaker 7: the very end you weren't even gonna make the team
Speaker 7: back in eighteen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, coming out of Sioux Falls, I was only there
Speaker 6: for six months. I started at West Virginia State, transferred
Speaker 6: for that last year of ball. Wanted to be around
Speaker 6: the winning culture of the NFL. Wasn't really on the radar,
Speaker 6: had a great season, and then kind of every step
Speaker 6: I took it was like, all right, this is probably
Speaker 6: going to be the last one, so might as well
Speaker 6: make the most of it, you know, mini camp to
Speaker 6: training camp to my first year was just kind of
Speaker 6: all right, I'm going to keep taking that next step,
Speaker 6: waiting for my time to come.
Speaker 1: Dennis, on that note right there, I mean, if you
Speaker 1: were talking to a young guy right now, what kind
Speaker 1: of advice would you give him? If you've got a
Speaker 1: young guy that is trying to make it in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. And I guarantee you there's probably some
Speaker 1: people who already come to you and ask you this question.
Speaker 1: But what would you tell some young guy that is
Speaker 1: trying to make it in the NFL? What is the
Speaker 1: number one thing you'd say to them?
Speaker 6: So I kind of have two things that are my
Speaker 6: go to answer. The first one is, don't ride the
Speaker 6: roller coaster the highs and lows of oh I made
Speaker 6: a great play or oh I'm on the team this week,
Speaker 6: or oh whatever that high is, and oh man, I
Speaker 6: made a terrible play, or I'm going to get cut
Speaker 6: or whatever that is. You got to stay the consistent
Speaker 6: player that you are and then control what you can control.
Speaker 1: So focus on the.
Speaker 6: Things, the details of your assignment every day and every week,
Speaker 6: and everything else that's outside of your control. You got
Speaker 6: to let somebody else handle that.
Speaker 5: And look at you.
Speaker 7: Now you're a team captain again again. But it's a
Speaker 7: new coaching staff. Fact, here's the head coach on Monday
Speaker 7: when asked about you coming off that game and what
Speaker 7: you bring to the team.
Speaker 9: Ultimate pro one of our captains, you know, does a
Speaker 9: lot for us. We put a lot on his plate
Speaker 9: and he's a playmaker for us. He always has a
Speaker 9: good attitude. He's a team first guy all the time,
Speaker 9: very knowledgeable, and I value his opinion about certain things.
Speaker 9: You know, I talk to him a lot and I'm
Speaker 9: glad we have him.
Speaker 7: How does that work with the new coaching staff do
Speaker 7: you we're a little reticent maybe to offer your opinion
Speaker 7: at first? Do they seek it out from you? How
Speaker 7: do you go about that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a little uncomfortable at first, just because
Speaker 6: the attention to detail and energy and every the focus
Speaker 6: that JG brought to the game is like I've been
Speaker 6: viewed as a leader in the past. I wonder if
Speaker 6: what I have and what I can bring to the
Speaker 6: table is enough for what he's looking for at this
Speaker 6: next level. Because it was definitely a heightened sense of accountability.
Speaker 6: So being able to remain that that leadership role was
Speaker 6: huge for me and really gratifying.
Speaker 1: What kind of questions does the head coach ask it tin?
Speaker 1: What kind of question does JG come up and say, Hey, Dennis,
Speaker 1: you know, what do you think about this? Could you
Speaker 1: give us an example of one.
Speaker 6: It could just be as small as like a schedule thing.
Speaker 6: I'm like, hey, does this work with the guys, or
Speaker 6: where's the the pain points in our week? Or where
Speaker 6: can we That's what I love about JG is the
Speaker 6: adaptability is incredible and we're not going to necessarily do
Speaker 6: what's easiest. We're gonna do what's best, and so being
Speaker 6: able to work with him in that component is pretty neat.
Speaker 7: How would you describe the mood of the coaches this week?
Speaker 6: We're the same in every week. It's a one and
Speaker 6: O mentality. We're not letting last week dwell or linger
Speaker 6: into this week. We're focused on what we're doing, and
Speaker 6: it's a consistent attention to detail regardless of what happened
Speaker 6: last week.
Speaker 1: You know, Dennis, you got that sack and suddenly it
Speaker 1: was team Strobe all right, which I honestly thought it
Speaker 1: was one of the coolest things I saw. Were you guys,
Speaker 1: had you guys worked on.
Speaker 6: That that was unchoreographed right there? It was awesome to
Speaker 6: see everybody hop in with it. That's what I love
Speaker 6: about this team and about this front seven especially is
Speaker 6: whoever's celebrating, we're all jumping in with it.
Speaker 7: When passion wolf. Actually, let me talk on the broadcast.
Speaker 5: I threw in.
Speaker 7: It looked like a Vegas line dance down there. It
Speaker 7: looked like a Vegas show because everyone jumped in on it.
Speaker 7: And if you missed it, he had two sacks, Dennis
Speaker 7: gard deck our guests. He had three quarterback hits. He
Speaker 7: had the tackle floss, he had the force fumble, which, oh,
Speaker 7: by the way, he turned into a scoop and score
Speaker 7: for Cam Thomas. Here's a question. Is there a protocol
Speaker 7: with that when a guy gets gifted a two yard
Speaker 7: scoop and score for his first career touchdown, well at
Speaker 7: least since since high school? I mean, does he like,
Speaker 7: oh your dinner? How does that work in the locker room?
Speaker 6: I don't think he owes me anything. So I happened
Speaker 6: to land on a loose ball in the end zone
Speaker 6: my rookie year, so I've been there. That's his I'm
Speaker 6: glad he's got that spotlight.
Speaker 1: It's good boy. I love the fact that that team
Speaker 1: Strobe was totally organic. That is so that is so
Speaker 1: cold to hear that. Dennis. Okay, are we going to
Speaker 1: see it again against the Giants and their offense?
Speaker 5: I sure hope so.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the New York Giants and what you
Speaker 1: see are the Giants on tape? Uh?
Speaker 6: Well, Daniel Jones is one thing that pops off the tape.
Speaker 6: How willing to run the ball he is? Uh So
Speaker 6: that's something we have to consider up front. And then
Speaker 6: obviously Saquon Barkley is going to be a tough tackle,
Speaker 6: so that's a that's a gang tackle mentality. And then
Speaker 6: figuring out Waller's game as well.
Speaker 7: Yeah everyone, Well it was Jonathan Ledbetter as well called
Speaker 7: him sa Quad. The quads are so big, he's nicknamed Saquad.
Speaker 7: And I mean if there's one guy who runs through
Speaker 7: contact and arm tackles, it's got to be Saquon Barkley, right, absolutely,
Speaker 7: So what does that mean for you? I mean is
Speaker 7: there more of an emphasis on fundamental tackling or are
Speaker 7: you just relying on getting you and a bunch of
Speaker 7: your friends to the ball.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's got to be a party at the ball.
Speaker 6: Everybody knows kind of everybody's needed. So it's all hands
Speaker 6: on deck to get him down.
Speaker 1: What about last week when you think about the pressure
Speaker 1: you were able to bring against Sam Hall and the
Speaker 1: Commanders right there, you know it's something that I got
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Dennis, I did not see
Speaker 1: that coming. I did not see six sacks coming. And
Speaker 1: you know, at the same time, now you're getting ready
Speaker 1: to play a New York Giants team that they've had
Speaker 1: some issues. They had a hard time protecting Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: in Week one. Now all of a sudden, their offensive
Speaker 1: line is a little patchwork and banged up as well.
Speaker 1: When you look at them, do you think that coming
Speaker 1: into this game, you're going to be able to get
Speaker 1: the requisite pressure on Daniel Jones.
Speaker 6: I think so, and I think we all a lot
Speaker 6: of that pressure that we saw last week to our
Speaker 6: secondary doing a great job with the disguises and stems
Speaker 6: and everything.
Speaker 1: It was really.
Speaker 6: Eleven people contributing to all of those pressures and stuff
Speaker 6: because the secondary did a great job for us.
Speaker 7: It's funny because I was talking to Buddha Baker in
Speaker 7: the locker room. I asked him, all right, so, how
Speaker 7: to go Game one? He said, I didn't really do
Speaker 7: a whole bunch. Every time I dropped in a coverage,
Speaker 7: our front seven was getting home.
Speaker 5: He said. I loved it.
Speaker 7: He said, I was ready to jump some passing lanes
Speaker 7: and I didn't really have a chance because you guys
Speaker 7: were And here's what's interesting, and we talked about this earlier.
Speaker 7: Wolf next Gen stats say that the Cardinals had the
Speaker 7: second highest pressure rate of any defense in Week one,
Speaker 7: yet blitzed at the lowest rate of any defense less
Speaker 7: than eight percent of the time. So that's kudos to
Speaker 7: the front four the front seven, isn't it.
Speaker 6: I think it's it's front and cover and cover in
Speaker 6: front working together and doing their jobs.
Speaker 1: So Dennis, tell me, do you like the left defensive
Speaker 1: end or the right defensive end? If we're looking at it,
Speaker 1: if we're standing there and we're Buddha Baker looking at
Speaker 1: the defense, do you like coming off the left side
Speaker 1: or the right side?
Speaker 6: As long as I'm out there, you think, oh, okay, you're.
Speaker 1: Not gonna tell me. You're you don't have a preference.
Speaker 1: You don't like the left side, mostly like I'm right handed,
Speaker 1: I would like the right side. Okay, So you're not
Speaker 1: going you don't care. You just want to be out there.
Speaker 7: Here's the question, because you got twenty eight snaps, and
Speaker 7: the snaps are really divvied up between almost a half
Speaker 7: dozen different guys coming off the edge, to what degree
Speaker 7: is that an advantage to everyone in the Cardinals defense
Speaker 7: because you're a much different body type and skill set
Speaker 7: than a xav and Collins, who's much different than a
Speaker 7: Victor d. Mukaig, who's much different than a BG O Jalaure.
Speaker 7: To what degree did you guys have success because you're
Speaker 7: just running different guys at different times and the old
Speaker 7: lineman can't lock on one certain type of pass rusher.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think keeping them unsettled is a huge part
Speaker 6: of it, and everybody having their own brand of pass
Speaker 6: rushes another huge things. And to kind of go into
Speaker 6: that right or left thing, is I passed rushed differently
Speaker 6: and you kind of alluded to.
Speaker 1: A wolf on.
Speaker 6: I like that left side for my right arm to
Speaker 6: be in there thick, but I might change my rushes
Speaker 6: up when it's my left arm that has to get
Speaker 6: in there, I might change.
Speaker 1: The style up.
Speaker 6: So to be able to do that as one player
Speaker 6: and then also have a bunch of different players coming
Speaker 6: in there that are doing their own thing, they have
Speaker 6: no idea of how to set each time were on the.
Speaker 1: Field, Dennis, what do you think is your best move?
Speaker 1: What is your best pass rush?
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna give any specific move, I think quicks,
Speaker 6: So we kind of break things down into like quicks, power, rushes, counters.
Speaker 6: Is kind of how we categorize things throughout the week
Speaker 6: on this is what the O line is good at,
Speaker 6: and this is where we might think we are able
Speaker 6: to take advantage of that. I think my quick moves
Speaker 6: so like a jab in a side scissors or a
Speaker 6: cross chop or a spin I would all consider like
Speaker 6: a quick move. So those are kind of my wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: Was this something that was always innate with you, Dennis?
Speaker 1: Where I mean who actually who helped you the most
Speaker 1: to become the edge guy that you are.
Speaker 6: I think talking with Chandler Jones really helped me. I've
Speaker 6: rushed the quarterback in college, but it was more just
Speaker 6: speed rushes trying to beat offensive tackles off the ball.
Speaker 6: Being able to talk to Chandler and how he thinks
Speaker 6: about it is different, and so always having those conversations.
Speaker 6: Being able to talk to DJ Humphries too while I
Speaker 6: was a scout player and hey, why did you set
Speaker 6: like that on that? Or what am I tipping off?
Speaker 6: Or are you gonna set differently? If my hips are
Speaker 6: pointed at you? I think those two people, Chandler and
Speaker 6: DJ kind of helped me mold my game and my
Speaker 6: thought process.
Speaker 5: Cool Dennis Kardek is our guest.
Speaker 7: So to that degree, you go back to twenty twenty,
Speaker 7: right your breakout season, you had seven sacks and ninety
Speaker 7: four defensive snaps. How much more of a thinking man's
Speaker 7: pass rusher are you now versus that?
Speaker 6: So I think there's kind of an evolution of my
Speaker 6: pass rush game kind of went from hair on fire,
Speaker 6: no thinking to almost now I'm trying to think and
Speaker 6: become that evolved pass rusher. Before I am, so I'm
Speaker 6: thinking too much, And now it's I have all these
Speaker 6: tools in my tool belt and I'm able to pull
Speaker 6: out each one on the run. So I'm not trying
Speaker 6: to diagnose what my tools are. I know what they are,
Speaker 6: and I just need to know, Hey, there's a screw,
Speaker 6: I got my screwdriver, there's a nail, there's my hammer.
Speaker 6: You know, just being able to pull those out and
Speaker 6: the decisions are quicker now.
Speaker 7: So going back to the spin move real quick, was
Speaker 7: that how much of that was organic and how much
Speaker 7: of that was premeditated? When you bust out the spin
Speaker 7: move to cause the fumble.
Speaker 6: So the spin move, I knew that I had Cam
Speaker 6: looping outside for me, so I knew I wasn't in
Speaker 6: danger of giving up container or anything like that this
Speaker 6: week or last week. Based on the way they were setting,
Speaker 6: I knew I didn't have to pick to get Cam
Speaker 6: free either. So it's just your best inside move, which
Speaker 6: I felt like was my spin move.
Speaker 1: You're such a great special teams player, and now you
Speaker 1: got twenty eight snaps. As Paulie said, on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. You're an integral piece of the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, maybe situationally, but how does
Speaker 1: that impact your play on special teams?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's definitely finding that balance between special teams and defense.
Speaker 6: And I'm a teamer at core, so being able to
Speaker 6: be locked into all the meetings and everything and just
Speaker 6: just waiting for Jeff Rodgers to call my name, Hey,
Speaker 6: I need you for this win, or I need you
Speaker 6: for that when I'm more than willing to run out there.
Speaker 7: Well, as you know, Wolf was a four time pro
Speaker 7: bowler on special teams, right, that's how you earn the
Speaker 7: nickname the Barbarian.
Speaker 5: Okay was on special so you know, don't forget the
Speaker 5: DNA your game there.
Speaker 1: Dennis absolutely appreciate you so much, buddy.
Speaker 7: And you still, unlike Larry Fitzgerald in the Japanese Fighting Fish,
Speaker 7: you actually do acknowledge the barbarian as your nickname.
Speaker 5: Still correct. Absolutely, it's so perfect, all right, Dennis appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Well, look, Wolf, he's not going to answer it, but
Speaker 7: I'll say it. He had two sacks against the Giants
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty, two sacks against the Jets, So we'll
Speaker 7: see what's coming against another reunion against the New York
Speaker 7: team on Sunday. Dennis Gardek has been our guests back
Speaker 7: with more on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan
Speaker 7: Ford in Gilbert.
Speaker 4: Cardinals are showing Blitzer's Tilvea slips into the box and
Speaker 4: now steps back out.
Speaker 5: Four man rush Collin throws.
Speaker 11: Till the nair Simson in the fifteen macfo He's right
Speaker 11: breaks a tackle, Steel dancing around given Brown.
Speaker 5: Petty's finally knocked down the midfields right. Cardinals have it
Speaker 5: on their second turnover Urst to ten and h the.
Speaker 11: Fifteen Pat tilven That's why he's so special, That's why
Speaker 11: they wanted to.
Speaker 1: Keep him around.
Speaker 11: He just hides back there he fakes the blitz, drops back,
Speaker 11: they set up the pickt Fits Collins never saw.
Speaker 4: The interception by Pat Tilban is the first of the
Speaker 4: season for him and also the first of his career.
Speaker 7: How about that nineteen ninety nine at sun Devil Stadium,
Speaker 7: Cardinals beat the Giants fourteen to three. You're the comment
Speaker 7: there from John Missler about wanting to keep Pat Tilman around.
Speaker 5: Well, guess what.
Speaker 7: Initially you might have kept him around just because of
Speaker 7: everything he embodied, But eventually you kept him around because
Speaker 7: he had a two hundred tackle season as one of
Speaker 7: your inside linebackers and a ridiculous playmaker, that Pat Tilman,
Speaker 7: who was a seventh round draft pick the year before
Speaker 7: in ninety eight, and in a week that included nine
Speaker 7: to eleven, we thought we'd honor Pat Tillman there with
Speaker 7: a series against the Giants that goes back to nineteen
Speaker 7: twenty six, one hundred twenty ninth meeting in this series,
Speaker 7: Ron Woefully that'll be on Sunday at State Farm Stadium.
Speaker 1: One of the most genuine and purest football players you
Speaker 1: will ever see on a football field, Pat.
Speaker 7: Tillman, And you've had your battles against the Giants, over
Speaker 7: the years. There's no doubt about it. We don't want
Speaker 7: to mention Carl Banks or Pepper Johnson. Wen't have time
Speaker 7: for that. Let's talk about this twenty twenty three team
Speaker 7: that lost forty to nothing at home. Okay, and so
Speaker 7: all right, you figure you're going to get their best shot.
Speaker 7: And then, of course do you think, all right, wait
Speaker 7: a minute. They have a guy who's very familiar with
Speaker 7: the Cardinals up until three weeks ago, by the name
Speaker 7: of Isaiah Simmons. And here's the head coach, Brian Dable.
Speaker 7: If they're downloading info from the former Cardinal.
Speaker 12: I think any time you get players that are other places,
Speaker 12: you ask them stuff. But you know, I've been in
Speaker 12: the league a long time. You ask him stuff and
Speaker 12: you don't really. I mean, we got to take care
Speaker 12: of our business and make sure that we're prepared what
Speaker 12: we see and if you know, there's certain things we
Speaker 12: want to ask them absolutely, whether it's a player or scheme.
Speaker 12: You know, you try to uncover every snow and you can.
Speaker 7: All right, So, Isaiah Simmons, is it a factor or
Speaker 7: not in the outcome of this game?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's no doubt about it. They're going to
Speaker 1: pick Isaiah Simmons' brain in regard to the schemes and
Speaker 1: some of the calls that are out there, maybe some
Speaker 1: of the buzzwords that they actually use for some of
Speaker 1: their checks. Yeah, they're definitely going to pick his brain
Speaker 1: on that one. But I think the biggest asset that
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons will be able to offer, at least in
Speaker 1: terms of game planning, I think is more to do
Speaker 1: with personnel, Polly, you know, just his take on certain
Speaker 1: offensive linemen whoever that may be, his take on James Connor,
Speaker 1: his his take on, you know, some of the wide
Speaker 1: receivers as well. He's he's going to be able to
Speaker 1: give them a little bit of insight right there. There's
Speaker 1: only so much the tape will eventually tell you. When
Speaker 1: you can take your tape sessions and then back it
Speaker 1: up with somebody who's got intel inside information personally on
Speaker 1: those players, it really helps.
Speaker 7: There's a reason that the Giants traded for Isaiah Simmons.
Speaker 7: Most believe it's because Wink Martindale uses his quote positionless system,
Speaker 7: and in fact, he told Isaiah's Isaiah Simmons in the
Speaker 7: media this week that he was told by Mink Martindale
Speaker 7: upon his arrival, the defensive coordinator, you know, don't worry
Speaker 7: about a position, just learn the concepts. So they list
Speaker 7: him at inside lineback. The will okay, yeah, fifteen snaps
Speaker 7: last week he had one tackle, So I don't know
Speaker 7: how much we're going to see him or in what
Speaker 7: role exactly. I will say that the bigger concern I'm
Speaker 7: guessing by the Cardinals offense would be Dexter Lawrence, the
Speaker 7: wrecking ball of a nose tackle, the All Pro who
Speaker 7: absolutely destroyed the Vikings in the playoff win last year.
Speaker 7: What sort of priority is Dexter Lawrence up front?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paul, you know, once again, this is something the
Speaker 1: Cardinals are very familiar with, based on what happened in
Speaker 1: Week one, where you had Doron Payne of course, and
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen two defensive tackles that are Pro Bowl defensive tackles. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, yeah, you've got the same situation upfront with
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. But you know, to me again,
Speaker 1: you've got to hammer the ball north and south. And
Speaker 1: it was interesting because I heard jayg actually talking about
Speaker 1: the fact that maybe they should have done that a
Speaker 1: little bit more, kind of cram the ball a little
Speaker 1: bit more vertically. I think that, to me is something
Speaker 1: that I fully expect. Dexter Lawrence is a great nose tackle.
Speaker 1: There's no denying that. But even with Dexter Lawrence up front,
Speaker 1: try to remember, this is number twenty seven and number
Speaker 1: thirty one in terms of stopping the run in yards
Speaker 1: per game and yards per play. New York struggled with that.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact. If there's one thing the
Speaker 1: Giants struggled with more than anything offensively and defensively in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two last year, it was that stopping the runs.
Speaker 1: So I think it'd be myopic to go into this
Speaker 1: game and say, you know what, No, they've got this
Speaker 1: great nose tackle, We're not going to run the ball.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna cram it vertical.
Speaker 7: And you know what, we'll be there for it. We'll
Speaker 7: be cheering that on, There's no doubt about it. Now,
Speaker 7: flip it the other side for this Cardinals defense, what
Speaker 7: do you think is going to be most important? I mean,
Speaker 7: is one, two and three stopping their running backs Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean that really is. I think
Speaker 1: the entire game plan to some degree hinges on the
Speaker 1: Cardinals and if they can stop the Giants from running
Speaker 1: the ball effectively, Paul, I do. I don't think you
Speaker 1: can overstate it. Saquon Barkley was underserved last week because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys built such a sizeable lead in the game.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be running the ball with Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 1: You're that's death by a thousand cots. You know what,
Speaker 1: Unless the Arizona Cardinals come out this week and they
Speaker 1: have a hard time stopping Sakuon Barkley, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be problematic. Paul, it really is. I think
Speaker 1: that's got to be number one, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, because you know, Daniel Jones has
Speaker 1: got to be in a balanced offense. He can't be
Speaker 1: one dimensional. He's got to be in a balanced offense.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think the entire key to the
Speaker 1: game for the Cardinals hinges on them stopping Saguon Barkley.
Speaker 7: And if they do, and they forced third and long,
Speaker 7: that Giants offensive line can be a liability. They allow
Speaker 7: seven sacks, twelve quarterback hits. Dallas generated pressure on twenty
Speaker 7: three of thirty seven dropbacks. That's the fourth highest pressure
Speaker 7: rate in a game since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Now, remember Dallas is really really good kating after the quarterback.
Speaker 7: Mode still, and they took that early lead to score lead,
Speaker 7: and it was just pin our ears back. We're gonna
Speaker 7: have to worry about the run, right, We're just getting
Speaker 7: straight to the quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: So we'll see how that all plays out.
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