Welcome to the Super Bowl, Adrian Wilson (& Steve Keim)

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After an epic back-and-forth NFC title game (with a controversial finish – fairly blatant PI not called on Eagles’ 4th down attempt), Adrian Wilson‘s Arizona Cardinals are headed to the Super Bowl. Wilson is the first man interviewed after the game, and hopefully one of our technically proficient bloggers can embed video of the touching scene soon.

We do a pretty decent job of following the career of Wilson, so you can view some of our previous Adrian Wilson entries by clicking here.

In addition to Wilson, former Wolfpack offensive lineman Steve Keim is the Director of Player Personnel for the Arizona Cardinals. Considering where the Cardinals were compared to where they have come under Keim, it is pretty obvious that Keim is turning some heads in the league.

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1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

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93 Responses to Welcome to the Super Bowl, Adrian Wilson (& Steve Keim)

  1. TOBtime 01/19/2009 at 8:10 AM #

    ^Yeah, didn’t we have a linebacker who was a back-up on the Cardinals for a while?

    As long as players are allowed to wear the types of helemts they have there will be hits like the one McGahee took. The speed of the game is so fast you can’t change once you commit to a direction of tackle. There simply is not time to get in textbook tacklng form and it most often happens in the secondary. The “lead with the shoulder” idea is just plain stupid. Anybody notice what happens to be sitting on top of both shoulders? Lead with the helmet or lead with the facemask really isn’t going to matter much.

  2. SEAT.5.F.2 01/19/2009 at 8:21 AM #

    Obvious thread hy-jack, but I thought it appropriate to share some more terrific news concerning State football. Asa Watson, a highly sought after target of TOB has verbally committed this weekend. His older brother Ben has won a Super Bowl for the NE Patriots, so there’s that tie in.

    He and fellow Wolfpack commit Denzelle Good were the toast of the town for SC at the Shrine Bowl, that coming on the heels of stealing Sterling Lucas last year after his break out Shrine performence.

    There is also a nice QB being pursued out of Boiling Springs SC and the ’10 class needs to be quality over quantity so lets hope things are going well.

    I would say that what is occuring in the Palmetto/Peach States as far as NC States recruiting presence is starting (not completely) remeniscant of what TOB helped Welsh orchastrate in the Tidewater area years ago.

  3. cooldrip 01/19/2009 at 9:17 AM #

    I’m a huge lover of the EPL (English Premier League) but it doesn’t hold a candle to the NFL. First, none of Kaka, Messi, or Ronaldinho play in the EPL, the 2 Brazillians play for AC Milan and Messi for Barca. There are big stars, but until this year, no EPL player had won the Ballon D’or, the Euro soccer MVP trophy (Ronaldo won for ManU this year).

    The competition is what’s important though and the EPL or anyone else can’t begin to compare. All the teams are rich in the NFL, and with a draft and a real free-agency system, every team has a chance to be competitive. Not so in the EPL where one of 4 teams will win the title every year. And I mean every year, the last time a team not named Chelsea, ManU, Arsenal, or Liverpool won the EPL was 1981 (Nottingham Forest). Arizona in the Super Bowl is like Bolton winning the Prem; tell an English soccer fan that and he would laugh out loud at your absurdity, because Bolton has never won and they never will, the system is rigged against them. Nothing like a league of competitive teams to keep things interesting; who woulda picked the Cardinals to be in the Super Bowl?

  4. Noah 01/19/2009 at 9:26 AM #

    Levar Fisher was the linebacker that played for the Cardinals (briefly). He shredded his knee early in his career and that was that.

    Regarding home-brewing, one of the big reasons well-made home-brewed beer tastes so good is that the braumeister doesn’t have to pasteurize his or her product. Huge difference. That’s why Guinness in Dublin tastes like the tears of angels but is simply a pale imitation in the United States (still good, just not great).

    Speaking of recruiting, we’re chasing the Tidewater too. That was an area that Amato completely and totally ignored (except for Jay Smith). He’d rave about South Florida and then leave places like Hampton just to his north completely alone.

  5. BJD95 01/19/2009 at 10:01 AM #

    I don’t know much about soccer, but my impression was that European soccer is like baseball, but with an even more stacked deck. It’s like what baseball would be if the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, and Dodgers quadrupled their payroll and everybody else cut theirs in half.

    And that is the simple beauty of the NFL. Make good decisions, and any franchise can win. The ones in the shitheap are there because they deserve to be.

    The Super Bowl also doesn’t NEED a hook to get TV viewers. Had the matchup been Ravens/Cardinals, it still gets higher ratings and ad revenues (by a longshot) than any other sporting event. There’s no “but baseball NEEDS the Yankees to be good” element, which I find very refreshing. All it does is make the doofuses at ESPN work harder, since they would rather just talk about Brett Favre and Terrell Owens ad nauseum.

  6. pakfanistan 01/19/2009 at 10:29 AM #

    All it does is make the doofuses at ESPN work harder, since they would rather just talk about Brett Favre and Terrell Owens ad nauseum.

    And this is why I hope Tim Tebow hears God speak to him and decides to be a missionary in the deepest darkest jungle in either South America or Africa.

  7. SEAT.5.F.2 01/19/2009 at 10:35 AM #

    Ahhh….home brew. Close friends of ours had a secret santa party for our youngings. The man of the house had him some brewed beer that his brother had batched recently. His bro took an apprentice beer brewing study abroad that centered out of Chicago and sent him around Germany to various Brewmeisters.

    The dark hoppy stout had been soaked in smoked cured oak chips to recreate the european fashion of aging some Dark beer in oak barrels. 10 -11% alc, sweet, smoky, no bitterness

    Another kicker with no perservative/pasterizing is head-ache ZILCH the next am.

    Is this Keim guy a Brew Meister, is that how this tangent started?

  8. Noah 01/19/2009 at 11:04 AM #

    If you barrel-age beer, how long do you leave it? You can get five gallon oak barrels for about $150.

  9. wufpaxno1 01/19/2009 at 11:29 AM #

    ZZZZZZ…. Noah, you have been sleeping for a while, must have been the beer. Kurt Warner’s wife hasn’t had a spiked dew in over 5 years, she has long blonde hair now and looks pretty good for a woman in her mid to late thirties. 🙂

    The Warner angle still is a nice story and he is strong in his faith, but this is all about A.W., he is one of our own and we always support our own, and seems to be pretty strong in his faith too. A.W. has given a lot to the Cardinals organization. He stuck it out through some pretty sorry seasons when he could have bolted. I don’t really have a dog in this fight so I am pulling for A.W. to get his ring.

  10. JEOH2 01/19/2009 at 11:53 AM #

    As much as I didn’t want the Cardinals to win, my colleagues and I couldn’t help but cheer every time he made a huge play (and he made some HUGE plays)…though I won’t be rooting for Arizona in the Superbowl, I want him to turn heads throughout the match-up and continue to make plays…and I can’t WAIT till the starting line-up announcements and hear him say “Adrian Wilson…North Carolina State”

    But hey, How great would it have been if Phil had made it as well!?

  11. Old School Wolf 01/19/2009 at 11:55 AM #

    Weren’t both of the Cardinal safety’s from State last year ? May be I’m a little more addled than usual today.

  12. BJD95 01/19/2009 at 11:57 AM #

    Here’s a question for discussion. I know Fitzy now has the post-season yardage record. But subjectively – did Jerry Rice ever have a postseason performance as dominant as Larry Fitzgerald?

    I’m starting to think that Rice’s “all time best WR” status may be in jeopardy.

  13. Alpha Wolf 01/19/2009 at 12:09 PM #

    Another kicker with no preservative/pasteurizing is head-ache ZILCH the next am.

    It is actually mostly that almost all homebrew has live yeast in it, which is incredibly rich in the B-vitamin complex. Vitamin B has major hangover killing ability.

    You are right about preservatives, aka, “chemicals in beer.” There is no need for them in homebrew, because alcohol is a natural preservative. Most homebrewers either knowingly or not follow the principles of Reinheitsgebot — the 16th century German purity law that only allows malted barley, hops, yeast and water in beer. It’s all you need unless you’re brewing Belgian and other styles that have additional natural adjuncts.

    Noah: to answer your question, I rarely if ever age in oak casks. I prefer to bottle my stuff until I get clearance from Accounting and Senior Management (the wife) to finish our walk-up attic and make it into a media and game room as well as a bar. At that point I will keg and have draft brews for everyone who stops by.

    Sorry to go off on a tangent, but homebrewing is one of my long-time passions. You guys should find us next football season and have some Wolfpack Red or Wolfpack White ale. We like to bring a case or two to every tailgate.

  14. Alpha Wolf 01/19/2009 at 12:17 PM #

    I’m starting to think that Rice’s “all time best WR” status may be in jeopardy.

    Rice did his magic over a period of years, and has a number of rings. That discussion should be saved until Fitzgerald has two.

    I do remember him being a load in the Tangerine Bowl one year. He went off on NC State that night and that after he was injured and not even supposed to play. I still think that was a Trojan Horse to get into our coaching staff’s heads.

  15. highstick 01/19/2009 at 12:25 PM #

    Alpha, I was tempted to homebrew a few years ago, but then got busy with other things and it was delayed. Glad you brought this up to get me interested again. If you have any good tips or references, please post.

    Greywolf, the drugstore that sold beer at 7 AM in the morning or that sold the aspirin to kill the hangover from the night before? I’m drawing a blank on that one, although seems like I remember a drugstore further down Hillsborough across from the belltower? There may have been one close to the theater on Hillsborough also. I’m going to really have to concentrate with this old mind to remember that one!

    Slightly off topic, but any comments on Julius Peppers’ and the Panthers comments yesterday in the Charlotte Observer?

  16. RickJ 01/19/2009 at 12:39 PM #

    “I do remember him being a load in the Tangerine Bowl one year. He went off on NC State that night and that after he was injured and not even supposed to play. I still think that was a Trojan Horse to get into our coaching staff’s heads.”

    Alpha – I am pretty sure that was Antonio Bryant you are remembering, not Larry Fitzgerald.

  17. El Scrotcho 01/19/2009 at 1:04 PM #

    I would have sworn it was Fitzgerald, but you’re dead on – it was Antonio Bryant.

    http://www.usatoday.com/sports/scores101/101354/101354362.htm#RECAPS

  18. Sw0rdf1sh 01/19/2009 at 1:09 PM #

    For those curious, Wheeler HS (R. Howell) is playing on ESPNU right now.

    Cousins plays right after this game.

  19. LKNpackfan 01/19/2009 at 1:10 PM #

    Peppers is tired of being mis-used. He is asked to drop back into coverage way too much, imo.

    Ah, homebrewing – a hobby I’ve been meaning to pick up (with grad school completed, maybe now I’ll find the time). Definitely interested in more info on the topic, alpha.

  20. Wulfpack 01/19/2009 at 1:37 PM #

    Rightly or wrongly, Peppers (and his agent) feel he can be more effective in a different system. He’s in his prime and will demand big money, and he can get it. I just hope the Panthers can get a bunch in return.

    I was listening to the radio this morning and there are reports there’s much more to this story than meets the eye. He’s wanted out since training camp, so there’s nothing new here. But somebody, somewhere, knows the real reason he wants out, and so far everyone’s been tight lipped. I’m not even going to begin to speculate.

    As great of a defensive end he has been for the Panthers, I’m not all too concerned about it. Obviously, his talent far outweighs the results he has recorded the past couple of years. I have no ill feelings toward him though. All in all he represented himself and the team well and we had some great years.

    It’s probably best the two sides just part ways and agree to disagree. The Panthers have some huge holes to fill if next year is going to be anything like this year with a much more difficult schedule looming on the horizon. jake isn’t getting any younger either.

  21. Ed89 01/19/2009 at 4:18 PM #

    Anyone in the Triangle interested in homebrewing should check out American Brewmaster off Capital Blvd and Brentwood. They’ve got everything you need to get started. The owner and all the guys that work there are very helpful.

    Alpha is correct about the preservative aspect of alcohol, but it’s also the hops that are a natural preservative. Hops also give beer it’s bitterness, flavor and aroma. Very hoppy beers last longer and are usually more bitter. Hence, India Pale Ale (IPA’s) were made very “hoppy” so they would last longer during the export trip to India, and the extra bitterness could mask some of the stale flavors resulting from the long trip.

    I love talking homebrew, but back to the thread, GO A.W. and the CARDS! Anyone got a report on how Richard Howell looked on ESPNU?

    One last thing — Alpha, so where to we find you in order to test one of those Wolpack Red Ales? I usually have a few of my own and comparing homebrews and tailgating are a couple of my favorite pasttimes.

  22. primacyone 01/19/2009 at 4:44 PM #

    Best thing about Home Brew: No Taxes

    ^^^^^^^^Werner a Hall of Famer: That’s CRAZY talk. CRAZY. He’s not even close yet.

    The Iron Curtain Stealer’s defense will prevail. It’s a beast.

    Best matchup of the year. Fitzgearld versus Polamalu.

  23. LKNpackfan 01/19/2009 at 4:58 PM #

    Deadspin has an interesting post on Bill Self violating recruiting restrictions by talking to John Wall during a recent tournament.
    link

  24. TheCOWDOG 01/19/2009 at 5:41 PM #

    Kurt Warner, folks, is an absolute gamer. You think Torry misses him?

    I don’t have the stats in front of me and won’t research ( I’ve got eyes and a memory ) While living in Socal, the NFC game we got every Sun. after THE move was the STL Rams. Reason being that despite Georgia’s hijack, true Socals followed and loved the Rams so that’s what the local stations would carry. They despised her, but loved their Rams.( add Roman Gabriel ) My dear wife in particular.

    Anyway, saw more of Warner than I suppose most of ya’ll.
    I’m gonna leave my argument for HOF status in the hands of one Joe Montana. Last week, ol’ crumudgin Joe was asked point blank by Dan Patrick if Warner is a HOF’r.

    ” ABSOLUTEY ”

    Think Mr. Holt might echo that when he’s inducted?

  25. wufpaxno1 01/19/2009 at 6:28 PM #

    Greywolf/Highstick,I beleive it was a Kerr Drugstore and was right across from D.H. Hill Library. I used to swing by there after a long night of work at D.H. Hill.

    Alpha, I remember when the American Brewmaster was at the fairgrounds flea market and bought the five gallon starter kit as well, but I have not been as devoted to the craft as you have. It’s a little like golf in that it gives back to you proportional to what you put into it, and I am not referring to the ingredients.

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