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Speaker 1: this notion, Dave, that you know, fans they want to

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Speaker 1: But that's not how they're thinking. Dan Quinn wants people,

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Speaker 1: But getting back to something you said, they're matt about

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Speaker 1: the fans. This is a team that cares a ton

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Speaker 1: about the fans. And I think mister Blank certainly demonstrate that.

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Speaker 1: Demonstrated that as he accepted the mluh Major League Soccer

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Speaker 1: about the fans. Talked about the fans again on the

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Speaker 1: radio on Saturday or on Sunday after before our game.

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Speaker 1: This is fan Appreciation Weekend. This weekend, the Arizona and

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Speaker 1: I know there's not a lot a lot on the

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Speaker 1: line from a playoff perspective, but if you get a chance,

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Speaker 1: you and you do have a ticket, please come down

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Speaker 1: to the game because I know the team would like

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Speaker 1: to recognize you. It has not been the season any

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Speaker 1: of us wanted, and it certainly hadn't been the season

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Speaker 1: you wanted, but they would like to recognize you because

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Speaker 1: I think that this is a city that gets a

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Speaker 1: bad rap as far as fan and appreciation fan who

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Speaker 1: the fans are here. We got a great fan base

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Speaker 1: here in Atlanta. But it was fun for me to

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Speaker 1: play it from I know this run for you shock

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Speaker 1: and play it from him, and I know these guys

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Speaker 1: would love to play in front of you guys again

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Speaker 1: this weekend. Try to get your w but please come

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Speaker 1: down the state and we'd love to see you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they are passionate, and uh, they're big parade today for

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Speaker 1: the United It's gonna be cold, but you know they're

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be out there. Um, but you know we

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Speaker 1: have I think we have a very passionate fan base too.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, they get fired up. And you know who's

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Speaker 1: excited right now when your team drops five straight. But

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Speaker 1: you know. That's that's why we're here providing some insight

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Speaker 1: too for you guys and talk about some of these

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Speaker 1: positives and think about, you know, and talk about where

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Speaker 1: this team is headed over the next three three weeks.

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Speaker 1: And we'll get more into maybe some of those off

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Speaker 1: season issues as we get to the final episodes here.

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Speaker 1: But for right now, the Cardinals are on deck. It's

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Speaker 1: a home game, it's a last home game, a game

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Speaker 1: they got to win. And you know, again, I start,

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Speaker 1: there were some things you know that were positive, you

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Speaker 1: know in yesterday's game that I think that this team

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Speaker 1: is going to build on. Um. I don't know a

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Speaker 1: ton about the Cardinals. I know they had a pretty good,

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Speaker 1: well not good, but I mean he's getting there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's a rookie quarterback, Rosen. They've got a great running back.

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Speaker 1: They've had a big win on the road against Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: They beat Green Bay and in Lambeau, right, you said,

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Speaker 1: And so they are a team that's playing for a

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Speaker 1: lot in a similar situation right now where they are

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Speaker 1: trying to Hey, they're trying to see if it's a

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Speaker 1: new coach, a new staff. They want to see what

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Speaker 1: this team is all about. And who's going to step up,

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Speaker 1: and they've got a good mixer of veterans and rookies.

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Speaker 1: But what do you expect to see from from from them?

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Speaker 1: And how I expect them to sell out just like

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Speaker 1: I expect us to sell out. I think that we

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Speaker 1: match up well. They came into the season with kind

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Speaker 1: of the notoriety on the defensive side of the football.

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Speaker 1: They haven't played quite as well defensively through the year.

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Speaker 1: Played pretty well last week against Green Bay and kind

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Speaker 1: of a driving sleet storm, if you will, in Lambeau.

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Speaker 1: I found a way to win a football game as

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Speaker 1: a missfield goal went wide for a Green Bay and

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Speaker 1: Cardinals get a win on the road. That's a momentum

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Speaker 1: for them for them, as you talk about with a

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Speaker 1: young quarterback. Defensively, they got some good personnel on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the football. So it will be a

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Speaker 1: challenge to go out and b T T anytime you

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Speaker 1: line up the National Football League, I don't care what

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Speaker 1: it is. There's guys that are playing with a lot,

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Speaker 1: great bit of pride. They're elite players, so you got

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Speaker 1: to come to play. Chuck changed a little bit on

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Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football, and I want to

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Speaker 1: go back to this real quickly. Matt what did you

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Speaker 1: see sombrellas start at right tackle, Beatles started to get

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Speaker 1: it right guard. We had a little bit more traction

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Speaker 1: in the run game, and though some of that was

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Speaker 1: Edo's ability to make people miss, because I think he

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Speaker 1: made some people. What were your saw thoughts on where

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Speaker 1: the old line played. I thought it was kind of

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Speaker 1: a mixed bag. It's times because you go back and

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Speaker 1: I love the concerted effort to run the football. I

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Speaker 1: think Tevin had maybe more yards in the first drive

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Speaker 1: than you had last two games, so you can see

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Speaker 1: the concerted effort to run the football. I thought there

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Speaker 1: was movement at times, but then there was a time

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Speaker 1: where you go third and one and you know, you

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Speaker 1: get stuffed on the left side. Obviously, you know Clay

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Speaker 1: Matthews played it really well against Jake. But I like

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Speaker 1: the fact that you got guys still out there fighting

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Speaker 1: and there were times where you would get beat and

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Speaker 1: it were times the pocket was kind of collapsing on

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Speaker 1: matter of times. But I thought this was a unit

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Speaker 1: that's still trying to trying to fight to play well.

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Speaker 1: You want the best, You want these guys to continue

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Speaker 1: to find their feeding in this offensive line. But this

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Speaker 1: leading the season, it's gonna be tough. And when you're

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Speaker 1: not running the football as good as you should, it

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Speaker 1: puts a lot of pressure on those guys up front.

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Speaker 1: So I think those guys are still fighting, playing hard,

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Speaker 1: and obviously they're you know, doing their best, but there

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Speaker 1: were times where you know, they were getting beat a

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Speaker 1: cup of times. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: these guys will continue to fight at the end of

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Speaker 1: this season. I think that is what bows well for

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Speaker 1: you going forward. Yeah, you know Smith had eleven carries

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Speaker 1: for sixty yards, Tevin had I had to look it up,

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Speaker 1: ten carries for forty five. Again, those are those are

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Speaker 1: decent numbers. It's you know, maybe not in compared to

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Speaker 1: a lot what a lot of teams are putting up,

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Speaker 1: but for where this team has been, that's a positive

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Speaker 1: sign at least. And I think the pocket Matt had

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Speaker 1: for especially in the first half of that game at Lambeau,

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Speaker 1: he had a clean pocket. He had time back there,

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Speaker 1: which was good to see. So, you know, I also

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Speaker 1: think it's important that you you finished this season off

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Speaker 1: the right way. Um how many times Archer, I know

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Speaker 1: you've done it. Tons of times going into the next season,

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Speaker 1: you say this team ended the year with a three

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Speaker 1: game win streak and that propelled him into starting three

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Speaker 1: and o or something like that. I think the way

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Speaker 1: you finished the season more than anything, helps you go

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Speaker 1: into the off season, whether you you know, don't make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs or whatever it is, if you have something

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Speaker 1: positive to build on going into the off season, it

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Speaker 1: helps the morale, it helps the coach, That helps the

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Speaker 1: entire culture of your organization when you finish the right way.

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Speaker 1: So I definitely hope this team and that's why there's

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Speaker 1: so much they to fight for it. It's so much

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Speaker 1: for this team to continue to build on because you

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Speaker 1: want to finish going into the off season or right way.

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Speaker 1: Any thoughts thoughts are, let's go get a W this week.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that you just concentrate on this week.

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Speaker 1: I think that we're so the season has been magnified

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Speaker 1: because we're four and nine and everybody's beginning to think

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Speaker 1: about the offseason stuff. Let's just how about just let's

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Speaker 1: just go think about this game. Concentrate on the fan

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Speaker 1: this weekend. It's fan appreciation down at Mercedespins. Come down,

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Speaker 1: cheer your team on Let's just make it a one

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Speaker 1: game season for this week. Just one game. Let's go

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Speaker 1: win a game this week and feel good about it

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Speaker 1: about ourselves coming into next week when we get a

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Speaker 1: chance to do this next Monday. Yeah. And we saw

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Speaker 1: these guys in the preseason. I mean, they've got some

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Speaker 1: big names on this team. Larry Fitzgerald, David Johnson, Larry

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Speaker 1: Fitzgerald play. That's another reason to come down. Larry Fitzgerald

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Speaker 1: may be done. You know, this may be it for him,

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Speaker 1: one of the great receivers of all time, all time,

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Speaker 1: and uh yeah, that's gonna do it for us. The

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