Deron Dangerfield

Carson Palmer says he and Chad Ochocinco would argue about whether or not he was open on the previous drive, so they drove to Indianapolis to study what Peyton Manning, Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne did on the sidelines “Chad and I were having a lot of success on the field, but then we’d come off the field and he’d be, ‘Dude, I’m wide open.’ And I’d go look at the picture like, ‘There’s 19 guys covering you. You’re not.’” “So we went down there to see what those guys were doing when the defense was on the field. What was Peyton doing? Was Peyton sitting by himself? Was he looking at pictures? What was Marvin doing? Was Marvin goofing off like Chad was?” “So we went to learn. We saw them communicate. They literally talked every series after. And it was never Marvin going over to Peyton. It was Peyton coming over to Marvin and Reggie.” “That was just something we implemented. We saw what they were doing on the field, obviously, but you don’t get to see what they’re doing when they’re getting Gatorade in between series.” “Seeing that constant dialogue and talking about this, talking through that — that was something that helped Chad and I get even more on the same page.” “We wanted to see what was going on. What kind of communication was it? Once a quarter? It was every series.” “They went three-and-out, there’s three runs, they would come over and talk about something because they’re always, ‘All right, we ran the ball three times. Here’s the run action we gave them. We’re going to hit them with the play-action post or the play-action corner,’ whatever it was.” “They were getting ready for that next series. And that’s something that Chad and I implemented into our games.”