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And Ron Wolflee, 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.480 it doesn't get any better than that horn unleash the 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:04.399 far A very special edition of The Big Red Rage 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.320 Tonight Paul Calvc, Darren Urban from ac Cardinals dot Com 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.160 sitting in for a vacationing Ron Wolfully and you know what, Darren, 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.640 I don't think you're gonna have any problem hitting the 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.720 way back button and recollecting the particulars of this one. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.360 If you missed it last week, we have busted out 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.399 Cardinals Folk Tales, and we're gonna revisit Cardinals Folk Tales, 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.040 the award winning documentary series that was unveiled this past 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.160 season during the season during a seven and oh tenant 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.560 to start by the Arizona Cardinals. In case you missed it, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.600 or even if you didn't, there's some really good stories 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.199 and anecdotes. As we say, you can't spell history without 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.720 the words story, and this one goes by the words 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:48.480 thanks Coach, which refers to Darren going to reverse engineer 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:52.840 this for us exactly, so thanks Coach is a reference 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:57.880 to Dennis Green's infamous postgame speech after the Monday night 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:02.120 meltdown against the Bears in two thousands six and after 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:07.000 he had his monologue as well, I guess we'll call 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.920 it that everybody remembers and you can still see on 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.760 YouTube and has been immortalized on commercials and the like 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.359 and repeated many many times in different ways and forms. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.959 Cardinals Vice president of Media Relations Mark Dalton kind of 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.720 waited a beat after Denny finished, and before anybody had 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.440 a chance to say anything, kind of clasped his hands 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.720 together and said, thanks coach. Matt Leiner will be out next, 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.480 and it just it was quite the finish to a 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.839 very surreal kind of moment. And by the way, as 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.400 he went behind that door and left the press commence room, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.320 there was a certain sideline reporter waiting to do the 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.360 radio version in the interview on the other side of 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.639 that door, which we'll get into once we launch into 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.360 Cardinals Folk Tales. Thanks coach. But yes, you thought the 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.399 game was a meltdown until you got to the post game, right, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.040 and then all of a sudden it literally turned into 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.440 a beer commercial. Yeah, it was. It was kind of 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:06.000 The game itself was crazy. I at the time was 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.560 working for the East Valley Tribute newspaper and covering it, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.639 and like you said, the game itself was was crazy 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.320 how it played out. The Cardinals had a twenty to 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.239 nothing lead and ended up losing the game and missing 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.480 a field goal on the like right at the end 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.600 of the game that would have won it for them. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.600 After all that and that was it would have been 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.840 interesting enough. And then we went in there and then 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.840 Dennis Green started having a press conference, which started pretty 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.080 normal until the one answer. But you know what, Denny 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.280 Green with the media was an event itself. Yes, it 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.960 was almost performance art in some ways. You know, just 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.360 a week before that, maybe two weeks before that, we 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.120 were in Atlanta and he had declared Matt Liner at 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.000 the starting quarterback by ripping the microphone out of my 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.520 hand as I was doing a live postgame interview with 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.680 rookie Matt Liners. So those are the sort of things 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.560 you had to keep your head on a swivel for 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:03.120 the head coach, Dennis. But in that particular moment, everyone 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.240 in that take us into the press room, because you 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.280 were bracing right, I mean, you were anticipating, man, there 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.640 could be one angry and agitated head coach potentially when 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.640 it first got in there, and I was literally in 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.760 the in the front row right in front of him, 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.760 probably like three feet in front of Denny, and I 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.720 was expecting either something very sullen and maybe one word 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.640 answers or anger, and it was really neither. At first. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.240 It was he got asked questions and he was very 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.120 matter of fact about how they blew the game. But 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.360 he was matter of fact about it until he got 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.920 the one that set him off. And then we got 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.039 the famous they are who we thought they were, which well, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:43.160 I mean, honestly, that is firmly entrenched in NFL history 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.760 is if not pulp pop culture. I would absolutely agree 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.400 with that. I mean, there's there's so many there's a 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.279 couple different parts that people remember. They are who we 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:55.120 thought they were, and you can crown them. You can 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.440 crown them who takes the third game of the preseason 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:03.320 like it's blank black. I mean this that it's hard 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.920 to not remember it. But again, one of the things 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.600 I loved about doing this folk tale and I was 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.480 I was the director of the video and helped get 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.599 a lot of the sound for it and the and 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.480 the video, and I just enjoyed kind of going behind 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.080 the scenes of hearing people how as it played out, 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.120 what was kind of going through their heads. And when 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.800 we come back, we'll hit the Big Red way back 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.480 button and we're talking the most memorable moments in Cardinals history. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.560 When you're talking about Cardinals folk tales and on this 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.680 various special edition of The Big Red Rage presenta by 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.280 santan Ford and Gilbert, we'll get into it next and 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.560 hit rewind on. Thanks Coach on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.560 Welcome back everyone into this special edition of The Big 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.800 Red Rage presenta by santan Ford and Gilbert on Paul 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.880 Calves as we go back through Cardinals folk tales, import 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:04.000 ticular the Denny Green Meltdown two thousand and six. And 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.320 if you remember that season, it started with a win 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.120 and then the Cardinals lost four in a row, two 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.280 of those buy a combined five points. But the bright 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:16.000 lights and the big stage were still to come on 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.839 Monday Night football. And you know how we talk about 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:23.080 sports is the original reality TV? Well, how about a 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.880 game where the Cardinals defense forced the opposing quarterback into 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.760 six turnovers? Right? A game the Cardinals led twenty to 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.800 nothing at the half, yet it's still wound up with 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.880 the pounding of the podium. And it was well after 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.160 the game that we learned that the Denny Green meltdown 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.400 might have been as premeditated as it was spontaneous. So 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.839 here on the Big Red Rage, presented by Satan Bord 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.520 and Gilbert, Here we go with an encore presentation of 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:58.000 Cardinals folk tales. Thanks coach. Do you believe this is happening? No? 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.839 I cannot remember Denny ever being that out of sorts. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.400 It's one of those things that's going to go down 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.600 in history. I mean, everyone's gonna remember, you know, what 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.280 I mean. We just the Bears are what we thought 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.600 they were. I said to my wife on the drive home, 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.680 what the hell did he mean by that? It was 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.240 going really really well for us. Boy, the Cardinals are 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:22.960 flying around on defense until it wasn't touchdown Chicago. Unbelievable. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.200 There are no words. It was deflating. We felt like 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.120 we had done enough to win. The meltdown is complete 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.760 for the Cardinal or was it? Because the most memorable 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:39.160 meltdown was still to come after the game. Coach Dennis 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.400 Green has got to be absolutely beside himself. You could 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.480 say that. Then again, Denny Green did say that a 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.640 postgame press conrence that beer commercials are made up? Literally, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:53.640 what do they think they are? They are who we 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.560 done they were, They are who you thought they were. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.240 A rand with a life of its own that's still 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.040 has legs today. I was I was next up on 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.080 the podium, and I was like, oh my god, what 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.280 am I walking into? Who the hell takes a third 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:12.240 game in a preseason It was beautiful from the beginning 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.760 to the end to the MIC's lap. If you want 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.040 to crown them, crowned your ass. It was a thing 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.440 of beauty. It started before you all even saw it though, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.600 Like it started off in the locker room, because when 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.840 my ass gets in there, I'm gonna go eight, and 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:32.079 I was like, WHOA what it wasn't oh what the 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.120 moment to be sure. Welcome in to Cardinal's Folk Tales, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.520 Thanks Coach, presented by Ziki, where we go in depth 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.680 into Cardinal's history all time anecdotes through the recollections and 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.560 memories of those who lived it or, in my case, 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.679 those who covered it. My name is Paul Calvic, Cardinal's 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.520 sideline reporter. It was October two thousand and six, Monday 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.440 Night football where the Cardinals led the undefeated Bears Swanty 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.720 to nothing at the half. Yet Coach Green had good 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:07.240 reason to be angry, frustrated, exasperated, Mount Saint Denny. I'm 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.880 telling you, when that clock went triple zero, something snapped 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.080 in Denian. I don't think he ever recovered. He did 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.520 it in a special way that only Dennis beIN could 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.520 do it. But they are what we thought they were, 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:30.920 and we led him out the hook. Thanks question. Now, 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.640 before we get to the pounding of the podium, it's 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:37.280 important to understand the stage and the stakes. Two thousand 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.760 and six was the debut season for University of Phoenix 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.680 Stadium state of the art. In fact, the roof was 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.840 open and the lights were bright for the building's first 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:51.839 regular season game in primetime, and the cameras loved themselves some. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:56.360 Matt Liner, the Cardinals rookie quarterback, transcended sports Hack. He 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.719 made People Magazines one hundred most Beautiful list. And as 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.480 most of Matt Leiner's weekly radio show, I used to 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.040 marvel at how USC fans would make the drive to 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.640 Phoenix just to hang out in the sports bar for 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.360 a one hour radio show. And the star qube brought 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.400 out the stars as well. Here's Darren Urban from Azy 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.839 Cardinals dot Com. Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore were at 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.440 the game on the sideline before the game, Matt, how 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.480 excited he is Monday Night for you? He might be 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.000 excited too, though, if you had Ashton Kutcher at Demi 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.000 Moore chared for you, David might be fired up. That's 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.680 kind of cool, you know that? Yeah, Demmi? How you done? 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.880 Charles Barkley showed up and he ended up making an 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:41.120 appearance in the booth during Monday Night football, and there 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.760 was just there was a vibe to it. Everything involved 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.400 just seemed like a height level. People were thinking Matt 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.880 Leiner was going to be the next great quarterback. There 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.120 was just so much involved. It was the first round 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.040 draft pick, Matt Leinert, who was making a second star 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.280 up and now on national TV against a very formidable 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.319 and vaunted Chicago defense. So yeah, it was. There was 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.400 a lot on display and a lot of unique variables 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.840 that went into that game. That's Cardinals VP of Media 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:13.360 Relations Marked and he's right. All the pregame talk all 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:20.320 week was all about the five and oh Bears. The 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.280 Chicago Bears are going to the super Bowl. It's the 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.360 best defense in the NFL in the history of this league. 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.520 Oh wait, it's Week six. But if you talk to 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.760 everybody associated with the NFL, including ESPN's Joe Tisman, the 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.360 Chicago Bears are on their way to the super Bowl. 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.800 That's voice of the Cardinals Dave Pass, who certainly was 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.040 not ready to crown the Bears. Not in Week six. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.600 Neither was Cardinals Pro Bowl pass rusher Bertram Barry, who 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.800 wanted the world to know that the a Z played 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.080 some d Everybody was talking about how this is going 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.319 to be a non competitive Monday night football game, and 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.959 we took that to heart. And I know from a 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.839 defense this perspective, we want to go out and show 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.840 that Chicago Bears had a really good defense, but we 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.440 would no slouches either, and we felt like this is 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.920 our opportunity to make a big statement. Yeah, you really 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.680 can't understand the post game or the game without broadening 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.400 lens a little bit to the season and the preseason 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.360 as a whole. The backstory is we played Chicago in 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.480 Chicago in the third preseason game and the Ones versus 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:29.000 Ones held our own and outplayed the Bears first team. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.440 That was in the back of Denny's mind the whole 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:36.440 time coming up into that game. And then we got 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.440 Lovey Smith on our conference call that week and love 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.040 Smith said, it was a glorified practice. We haven't really 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.360 played them yet. They were able to have some success 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:51.440 against us back then, but it's a totally different mindset. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:56.880 The preseason games are important. They're glorified practices to me, 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.880 and I think that God under Denny skin a little bit. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.040 I think that's important to know and to understand that 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:09.559 Denny was probably a little disappointed when coach Smith said, yeah, 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.920 that preseason game didn't mean as much to us as 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.120 it seemingly did to you. The game started, and it 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.520 started well. Matt Leiner had two touchdown passes in the 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.840 first quarter. Cardinals beat writer Kent Summers covered the game 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.520 for the Arizona Republic. The Cardinals dominated them in the 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.600 first half, I mean dominant. Matt Leiner was so sharp, 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.600 and you could tell the Cardinals had a game plan 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.160 that put the Bears on their heels. I mean Lyoner 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.320 was hitting short passes everywhere, and they were moving a 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.320 ball and the Bears, you know, Rex Grossman was turning 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.400 the ball over all the time, and I thought they're 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.400 going to win this game, you know, and I think 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.040 everybody did at halftime. That's how good they were in 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.000 the first half and how bad the Bears were. The 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.760 Cardinals defense, you had a young Darnell Docket, a young 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.800 Carlos Stansby, a young entre role. You had bertram Berry 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.040 playing really well. You had Adrian Wilson in the prime 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.600 of his career. It was a pretty good defense that 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.680 was starting to find its way, and they just made 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.560 the Bear's offense look like a disaster. They had Rex 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.520 Grossman at quarterback and Rex wasn't the most talented quarterback. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.360 He didn't have the best arm, he didn't make the 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.960 best decisions. So we felt like we could get a 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.439 few balls from him, like he would throw us a 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.240 few and maybe we could get some turnovers and go 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:22.880 for the ball because he was a guy that was 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.840 pretty loose with the ball. He had really small hands. 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.120 Play fake. Grossman steps up, hit the balls out, he 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.760 got sack of the balls loose at the thirty two 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.280 yard line. It was bertrand Berry that came around against 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.240 his first sack of the year and a forced fumble. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:40.480 Again they're still wrestling board. It's cardinal ball. Berry comes 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.320 up with the former recovery as well. He did it 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.840 all on that play. We felt like if we could 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.640 get him the turn the ball over more than what 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.920 he had, that we could as an offense score enough 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.680 points in order to get that win home. And it 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:58.480 almost worked. Almost as mentioned, the defense did its part. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:03.600 Rex Grossman finished was six turnovers, four picks, two lost bumbles, 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.520 his passer rating and a halftime seventeen point two. In fact, 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.160 it was twenty to nothing Cardinals getting ready for the 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:15.160 second half and Dave Pash was still uneasy when the 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.760 Cardinals were up big. Yeah, we were surprised, but I 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.320 think just because we had been snake bitten before. I 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.000 think there was a little concern, like, you got another 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:29.640 half and then it all started to unravel. Denny kind 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.840 of got a little cautious, didn't want Matt Lennert making 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.160 any any mistakes. They started handing the ball off to 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.280 Edrin James time after time after time, and he wasn't 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.680 going anywhere. He ended up with fifty five yards on 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.560 thirty six carries. That was ridiculous. That's one point five 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.560 yards per carry, and it was carry after carry thirty 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.920 six times. Edrin James ran the ball and got nowhere. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.080 And it was by design a halftime adjustment to make 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.840 darn sure the rookie QB didn't throw the game away 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:04.440 literally once again, Ken Summers. I think Denny Green went 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:08.200 to offensive coordinator Keith Rowan and said, back off, run 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.440 the ball, drained the clock, and that's what they did. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.520 Bryan or Lacker finished with like one hundred nineteen tackles 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.560 in that game. He hit Edgar and James so often 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.040 it was an unbelieving I've never seen one player hit 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.400 another player so often in any game. They ought to 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:28.840 name er Lacker Skycamp because he's everywhere. He is making 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:34.160 plays sideline to sideline. Even though the Cardinals got conservative 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.480 and stunk, the Bears still had to have four things 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.160 go exactly right for him to win that game. Commencing 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:48.040 countdown to meltdown, ignition to implosion. In three two one 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.160 high formation behind line of three step dropper comes Anderson 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.680 of the Ball's ball, but that's loose on the far 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.000 side of the Bears. Mike Brown picks it up and 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.800 he walks in fresh Chicago touchdown, and the Bears have 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.680 new life with two seconds to go in the third quarter. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.760 The one thing they can't do is turn the ball 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.879 over in that situation, and that's exactly what happens given 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.520 the Bears. Light Wolf gives me grief all the time 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.199 that somehow I'm the human Jinks with the Cardinals. He 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.600 calls it the pash factor. I say something and the 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:22.199 next play the opposite happens. Well, he did it to 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:26.360 Edrin Edrin James, Thank goodness, he's not a fumbler. Very 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:31.120 next play fumbling. The Cardinals really protecting the football right now. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.640 And that's the great thing about having Eder and James too. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.119 The guy's not a fumbler, David. He doesn't put it 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.560 on the ground very often. Five twenty five to go 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.120 in the fort twenty three to ten Arizona, they're out 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.600 of the eye with James the deep man. He gets 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.640 it off the right side, cut it back to the left, 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.320 and he gets stuck right in the legs at the 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.639 forty one yard line and the balls loose. It's fumbled 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.199 to pick up by the Bears far side Tilmot at 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:58.439 the twenty to ten to five touchdown Chicago. Did I 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:04.240 just say that? Oh my goodness, a thirty six yard 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:08.000 fumble recovery for the touchdown by the Chicago Bears, and 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:14.040 with five minutes to go there within one touchdown, another unforgettable, 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:18.120 regretable moment. Forget the pash factor, the wolf factor. Jing 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:23.399 seemingly spoke the fumble into existence. But wait, there's more now, 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.160 time for the Bears special teams to score. Devin Hester. 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.399 When Devin Hester caught the punt work, I'll never forget 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.080 as soon as he caught the ball on the return, 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:34.879 like he made one move in and you saw it 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.720 pastor waits for it at the eighteen yard line, backs 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:39.840 up and now runs right into twenty twenty five look 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:44.280 out thirty nearside, forty at midfield, forty five, forty with 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:49.640 a kicker to be thirty twenty fifteen ten five touchdown 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:55.000 Chicago and the Bears unbelievably have tied this football game. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:19:02.440 You gotta be kidding me. No way, no way, unbelievable. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.199 There are no works. The meltdown is complete for the 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:14.879 Cardinals offensively and in transition hunting the ball straight to 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:20.159 Devin Hester. That that wasn't the best idea. So it 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.520 just it was deflating. It really was, because we felt 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:27.080 like we had done enough to win, and to see 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:31.159 him return that punt for a touchdown, it just it 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.600 took a lot to win out of ourselves. But as 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:37.040 devastating as that may have been, rookie Devin Hester with 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.280 his second career return for touchdown, the Cardinals still had 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.760 two fifty eight left down one twenty four twenty three, 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.639 with one last chance at redemption. What everybody forgets is 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.720 that they fell behind after the part return by Devin Hester, 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:57.520 and Matt Leiner played like the quarterback of the future 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.280 he came on the field. He led them down the 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.000 field into field goal range for a game winning field 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.240 goal from forty yards. I mean, that's completely doable. And 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.280 then Neil Rackers blows it. The snap's good, balls down, 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.960 Rackers kick is up, it has the lack. Rackers kick 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:17.200 is no good. Rockers hooked it and he just missed 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:23.639 it to the left, and the Bears takeover, leading by one. Unbelievable. 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:29.320 Never ever seen anything like it. We don't make it. 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:34.480 Had we made it, history would judge the next half 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.840 hour forty five minutes much differently than than it does now. 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:43.359 And as the Cardinals VP and media relations Mark Dalton 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:47.080 there hinted, the drama did not end with the end 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:51.040 of the game. The most memorable moments were still to come, 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.880 and when we come back, we'll learn how Denny Green's 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:59.240 meltdown came to be, including what was the question that 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.240 lit the few? And did the question even matter? What 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.280 did Denny Green say right before and after the rant 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.960 That actually explains a lot in hindsight, not to mention 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:14.640 how Denny eventually embraced and even monetized that moment. As 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.199 we continue with this special Cardinals Folk Tales edition of 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.440 The Big Red Rage, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert, 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:28.200 we are santan Ford and welcome back everyone into a 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:32.080 Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. I'm 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:37.119 Paul CALVISI Tonight a special Cardinals Folk Tales edition. This 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:39.440 is where we say, look, you can't spell the word 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:44.600 history without the words story. And we have documented memorable 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:49.000 moments all time in Cardinals history, and tonight we're focusing 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:53.320 on Denny Green's Monday Night meltdown circa two thousand and 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.800 six that, as we know, we'll live on forever as 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.719 an all time rant. And we're gonna pick up here 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.639 where we left off. Denny Green about to meet the 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:06.720 media after the Cardinals blew that twenty to nothing halftime 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:10.760 lead against the Bears, eventually losing twenty four twenty three. 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:13.879 About as excruciating as it yet it's two words in fact, 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:17.560 brew toll. Believe me. I was a sidelined reporter for 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:21.240 that game. I did the coach Green radio interview after 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:25.119 the game, after the rant, which we'll get to. But 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:29.480 what about right before the meltdown, right before the media session. 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:32.640 We're gonna hear from beat writers Darren Urban and Ken 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:37.440 Summers and Cardinals VP of Media Relations Marked Dalton. As 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:41.359 we continue with our encore presentation of Cardinals Folk Tales. 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:48.320 Thanks coach. Coach Dennis Green has got to be absolutely 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:53.760 beside himself. So your team just lost in gut wrenching fashion, 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:58.159 a Shakespearean tragedy on national TV. You're the VP of 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:01.720 media relations. What do you do? What do you say 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:05.199 to your head coach Danny? We didn't talk a ton um. 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.080 I mean, he's he's a professional's he's he knows, he 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:10.680 knows what he's got to do. And but no, there 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:16.159 was no harbinger of overwhelming sentiment that was any different 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:18.440 than you would have expected in that situation. So yeah, 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.160 we made our way to the interview room and proceeded 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:25.080 to address the media. I was literally in the first 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:27.680 row right in front of the podium. I mean I 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:31.040 was bracing myself because I'm thinking, here's a guy who's 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:32.800 going to give us two word answers. He's going to 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:38.199 be super ticked off. And he wasn't. He came out 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:43.560 and people started asking questions about hard stuff, and he 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:46.840 answered like it was any other game. And then came 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:50.840