The Rise Up, See Red podcast

The Rise Up, See Red podcast

All about the Arizona Cardinals. It's the best hour of Cardinals talk on the Web! Hosted by Jess Root and Seth Cox, media analysts who are also lifelong Cardinals fans. Reactions, opinions and analysis given from their perspectives as fans and media insiders.

Episodes

July 14, 2025 36 mins
The 2025 Cardinals opponent preview series continues with show No. 8 in 14 days about each of the Cardinals' 14 2025 opponents. They face the Dallas Cowboys on the road in Week 9 coming off their bye on Monday night. Cowboys Wire managing editor KD Drummond joins Jess on the show to talk about the Cowboys' 2024 season, their offseason moves and coaching changes and what expectations are for the 2025 season. 
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In the seventh of 14 shows focused on the Arizona Cardinals' 2025 opponents, Jess has Packer Wire writer Mark Oldacres on the show to talk about the Packers, their 2024 season, their offseason moves and expectations for 2025. 
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In Week 6, the Arizona Cardinals travel to Indianapolis to face the Colts as one of their 14 opponents in 2025. In this, the sixth of 14 opponent previews, Colts Wire managing editor Paul Bretl joins Jess on the show to talk about Indy's 2024 season, their offseason and what is expected in 2025. 
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The fifth of 14 opponent preview shows is here. The Cardinals play the Tennessee Titans in Week 5 at home. To find out more about the Titans, Titans Wire writer Mark Mihalko joins Jess. They talk about the 2024 season, Tennessee's offseason moves and expectations for 2025. 
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The 14-show series previewing all the Cardinals' 2025 opponents continues with the fourth show of the series. Jess brings on Seahawks Wire managing editor Kole Musgrove to talk about the Seattle Seahawks, whom the Cardinals face in Weeks 4 and 10. They talk about the 2024 season, Seattle's offseason and what is expected in 2025. 
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In Show No. 3 of 14 of Arizona Cardinals opponent previews for the 2025 season continues. The Cardinals face the San Francisco 49ers in Week 3 and again in Week 11. As he has for several years now, Niners Wire managing editor Kyle Madson joins Jess to talk about San Francisco's disappointing 2024 season, what they did in the offseason in free agency and the draft, and then look at what expectations are for 2025. 
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In the second of 14 opponent previews, Jess brings on Jared Feinberg to talk about the Cardinals' Week 2 opponent, the Carolina Panthers. 

They discuss last season, their offseason moves in free agency and the draft and expectations for the 2025 season. 
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Jess begis his yearly series of opponent previews. The first of 14 shows in 14 days, he speaks with Saints Wire managing editor John Sigler. They talk about the Saints' 2024 season, their gains and losses in free agency, their draft class and what expectations are for the 2025 season. 
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It is the yearly show in the offseason where Jess and Seth rank players and position groups within the NFC West. 
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It is the show's evil episode (No. 666) and Seth and Jess talk about how new Cardinals linebacker Josh Sweat was named in the NFL Top 100 players at No. 95. They also share some interesting stats for second-half comebacks for Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner and current Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray. 
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The Cardinals announced their training camp dates, and Jess and Seth talk about what to expect and how fans get fewer practices than before. They talk about what former Cardinals first-round pick Isaiah Simmons said recently, now on the Packers. Finally, we learned of private texts by Michael Bidwill and Steve Keim related to Kyler Murray's contract and an NFL collusion hearing. We talk about it all and break it down. 
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With the Arizona Cardinals finishing up mandatory minicamp and wrapping things up before the start of training camp, Jess and Seth talk about what they got from the offseason programs. What did they take away?

They talk about rookie cornerback Will Johnson's injury, second-year guard Isaiah Adams in the drivers seat for the starting RG job and Kyler Murray wanting rings as he enters what he calls his prime. 
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Jess Root relates how he and Cards Wire writer Howard Balzer lost their media access with the Cardinals because of a disagreement, a misunderstanding and some pettiness from the media relations department. 
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After a couple of weeks off, Jess and Seth talk about some stuff surrounding OTA, including the schedule, the cornerback room after Sean Murphy-Bunting's offseason injury that ends his season, the growing physiques of Darius Robinson and Marvin Harrison Jr., and we discuss player absences from this voluntary part of the offseason. 
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The Arizona Cardinals released their 2025 regular-season schedule on Wednesday. Jess and Seth react to it and to the release video featuring Mack Wilson. 

They also make their game-by-game predictions and believe the Cardinals will be a playoff team. 
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The NFL releases its full 2025 regular-season schedule Wednesday evening, so Jess and Seth make their predictions about what the Cardinals' schedule will look like. 

They discuss the international games and the announcement of a new streaming-only game that will be free to watch this time. 

We talk about possible prime-time matchups and then predict the Cardinals' schedule. Yes, a mock schedule for you to laugh at when the real sched...
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In this edition of the show, Jess and Seth break down the Cardinals' six rookie free agents they signed. They talk about Rookie of the Year odds and then look at the Cardinals' free agents and potential roster moves before training camp. 
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April 30, 2025 67 mins
The Arizona Cardinals selected seven players in the 2025 NFL draft. Jess and Seth break it all down and react. They talk about their mock drafts, then go over each pick and give grades. 
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April 23, 2025 58 mins
For the 11th consecutive year, Jess and Seth make their predictions for the first round of the draft. 
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Jess and Seth give you one more show about the Arizona Cardinals and the NFL draft. They discuss the possibility of a first-round trade. They go over their preferred first-round pick possibilities for the Cardinals and then try to build the ideal scenarios for the Cardinals throughout the draft, especially with how things play out in Rounds 1-3. 

It's a great show and the next one will be their yearly mock draft of the first round. 
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