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Speaker 1: Welcome to the first playoff edition of the Dave Pash Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Arizona Cardinals play by play announcer and

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Speaker 1: ESPN announcer Dave Pash. Our guest this week is Christian Kirk,

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals leading receiver in twenty twenty one and

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Speaker 1: a native of Scottsdale. So one of the reasons I

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Speaker 1: wanted to get Christian on this show to talk about

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Speaker 1: being a local and being part of the cardinals first

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Speaker 1: playoff team in six years. The aura of when an

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Speaker 1: Arizona sports team is making it to that game and

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Speaker 1: they're able to bring the valley together, it just really

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Speaker 1: means a lot. And as a kid, it really hit

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Speaker 1: home for me. So I always knew, you know, once

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Speaker 1: I got drafted here, that that's what I wanted to

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Speaker 1: do for this team. Christian will discuss what he expects

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Speaker 1: Monday night in Los Angeles. It's so far when the

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Speaker 1: playoffs get underway. He'll also address the good and the

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Speaker 1: bad from this regular season. Christian will talk about what

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Speaker 1: Next step. Time now for our conversation with Cardinals wide

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Speaker 1: receiver Christian Kirk. So, Christian, let's first of all address

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Speaker 1: the game on Sunday, because it's easy for us to say, okay,

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Speaker 1: you reset, you move on. It's a new season, a

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Speaker 1: fresh start for the Cardinals. But the way things ended

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, coupled with what happened in Los Angeles, is

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Speaker 1: that a little hard for you guys just to flush

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Speaker 1: it and say, okay, reset, new season. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to take a couple of days

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Speaker 1: for us to um really flush it, you know, especially

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Speaker 1: coming into the locker room after a disappointing loss, and

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Speaker 1: you know, hearing that La lost and all we had

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Speaker 1: to do is win to win the division, and you

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Speaker 1: know that was one of our goals. And you know

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Speaker 1: it hurts, especially with after we how we played on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: A lot of it is just you know, things on

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Speaker 1: came out and played a great game. We knew that's

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Speaker 1: a great team. You know, that's that's a rivalry game,

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Speaker 1: and we knew that that was going to be their

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Speaker 1: match um, you know, everything that they were doing and

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Speaker 1: so um, you know it ended up us losing, and um,

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Speaker 1: you know, those are key contributors to you know, how

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Speaker 1: games like that turn out. So for us, it's it's

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be important to look at

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Speaker 1: the film, Um, keep correcting, keep looking at you know,

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Speaker 1: where we went wrong, and use that going into you know,

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. So I'm calling the game, yeah, today, the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals game, but I'm also calling the Rams game like

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Speaker 1: abreast of what's happening in both games and how that

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Speaker 1: impacts the Cardinals. So I'm scoreboard watching all of us

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Speaker 1: game on Sunday? You know, it's funny. I'm probably one

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Speaker 1: of the few that even noticed this, But we have

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Speaker 1: the scoreboard, clickers and stadium where usually you can look

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Speaker 1: the scores, and I noticed they took the rams and

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Speaker 1: to find out until laughter. I think that that's a

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Speaker 1: hard it is to win games in this league, and

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Speaker 1: And you know, for me, I don't the you know,

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Speaker 1: You played in big games in the SEC. You've played

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Speaker 1: What do you think it'll be like Monday when you

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Speaker 1: been to the playoffs. This will be similar. Feel you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I have an answer for you either.

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Speaker 1: It's it is. It's it's really unreal, you know, just

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Speaker 1: But I know for the future that's got to change,

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Speaker 1: And so that'll definitely be an area for the future

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Speaker 1: being better. Well, listen, man, I appreciate you coming in.

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Speaker 1: You had a great season. Thank you playing all games,

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Speaker 1: as you said, especially in the first year of a

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Speaker 1: the league, that is an accomplishment to lead the team

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Speaker 1: in receiving a big accomplishment, and you made the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Good luck on Monday in La. Thanks. I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: having me all right, man. Great stuff from Christian Kirk,

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Speaker 1: very open and honest about the good from this season,

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Speaker 1: the bad, and also what to expect on Monday Night

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Speaker 1: football in the postseason as the Cardinals face the Rams.

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Speaker 1: I love his memory of being a twelve year old

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Speaker 1: that postseason run. And I just finished my twentieth year

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Speaker 1: calling Arizona Cardinals games. Don't take for granted at all

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to call these playoff games, and that two

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Speaker 1: Cardinals limped into the postseason. It reminds me of what

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Speaker 1: a run and we'll see if it happens Monday night

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles at SOFI Stadium. We are presented by BETMGM,

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Speaker 1: the official sports betting partner of the Arizona Cardinals, and

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Speaker 1: by Hila River Hotels and Casinos. You can follow us

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at pashpod. Thanks to Christian Kirk for being

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Speaker 1: our first postseason guest on the Dave Pash Podcast, and

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Speaker 1: we will talk to you next Monday, the first Monday

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Speaker 1: Night football playoff game Cardinals and Rams. I'm Dave Pash.

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