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Former Arizona Cardinals player LaMarr Woodley ripped defensive coordinator James Bettcher last month on his podcast.

Now, he's back at it.

Woodley slammed Bettcher more on NFL Media’s R&B Podcast hosted by Michael Robinson and Nate Burleson on Tuesday.

Part of Woodley's comments:

“A couple weeks ago, I caught a little heat for talking about the Cardinals. I kind of said something about the defensive coordinator.

“I called him dumb. I went and blasted the D coordinator a little bit because I just felt like last year playing with the Arizona Cardinals – and I said this – it was a great organization, great team, great players. Everything was great, and I felt like we had a team to actually win to the Super Bowl.

"Coming from Pittsburgh, you know when you have a winning team and I’ve seen that. I just felt like the defensive coordinator didn’t listen to his players. You know how in some situations, coaches feel like they know more than the players. When you’re out there playing the game of football, you have to listen to the guys out there on the field. Me coming from coach Dick LeBeau, he was that type of guy that listened to his players and he helped make those adjustments during game time.

"Last year in Arizona, it wasn’t that same feel. I felt like damn, this is a Super Bowl team. A lot of people look at it and say Arizona would have a chance to do the same thing again next year. But we know that teams change every year and it’s hard to get back to that NFC Championship Game and to that Super Bowl, and we have a lot of guys that have played in this league that have never been there. So you have to seize the moment while you’re there, and I felt like he just didn’t take his players’ advice.”

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Woodley, 31, spent the past three seasons with three different NFL teams, including the Cardinals. He became an unrestricted free agent after Arizona didn't re-sign him.

The Raiders released Woodley after the 2014 season. The Cardinals signed him to a one-year deal, and he played in 10 games last season before being placed on injured reserve with a pectoral injury.

Woodley talked more about the NFC Championship Game on NFL Media's podcast:

“I was hurt so I was just coaching on the sideline. But I was just thinking that we need to make some adjustments because usually an offense is running all of their plays, you’re going to see everything in the first half. So you have to make those adjustments and come out in the second half and do what you have to do.

"I felt like we just didn’t make those adjustments. Like you said, we didn’t have a bad team. We had a great defense. We had a great defense, they just knew that every time we’re in third down we’re blitzing, we’re bringing the house. Cam (Newton) knew that, I’m pretty sure you knew that, too, and everybody across the league knew that. So what did they do? They just kept on picking us apart doing that, hitting the big plays.

"We didn’t make the adjustments. And then you have players on the sideline that know what’s going on in the game, but when there’s no communication from the man up top, things don’t happen.”

Woodley added: “You know how certain people are. When they get in a certain position, they feel like they know everything and they don’t listen to their players. Like I said, coming from Dick LeBeau, great defensive coordinator, he listened to his players. So I’m expecting if coach Dick LeBeau was listening to his players, then any other defensive coordinator is going to listen to his players.”

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Burleson also added his thoughts on Bettcher during the podcast.

He said: “I was talking to a player that will remain nameless on the Arizona Cardinals team, and he said, 'We had so much talent on both sides of the ball, specifically on defense – I don’t understand why our defensive coordinator would try to, using a baseball quote, change the game in the ninth inning.'

"He said, 'We showed up to Carolina with an over-complicated game plan and it was much different than what we were used to. So what people saw was us getting our ass kicked. What we knew as a players was we went to a game plan doing something completely different than we were accustomed to.' ”

You can hear the entire podcast here. The segment with Woodley starts at the 7:16 mark.

azcentral sports' Kent Somers wrote last month that "statistics suggest Woodley’s criticism of Bettcher was misplaced. The Cardinals ranked fifth in total defense in 2015, Bettcher’s first year as coordinator."

Somers also talked to coach Bruce Arians about Woodley's comments last month.

Arians smiled and said: “Good for LaMarr. I’m glad his name’s out there."

Woodley hasn't been picked up by an NFL team since the Cardinals released him.

Will he be if he keeps commenting on his coaches like this?

To read more of Woodley's comments from last month, click here.

azcentral sports' Kent Somers contributed to this story.

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