Cardinals center A.Q. Shipley has been around Bruce Arians long enough to know him as well as anyone. He began his NFL career with him when they were together with the Steelers, reunited with him again for a year with the Colts, and just spent the past three seasons with Arians in Arizona until the “cool uncle you’d want to have a drink with” decided to retire at age 65.
“I don’t know if you can ever replace that personality, that ability to just energize a room, and make a whole team fall in line behind him the way B.