Speaker 1: Welcome to the first playoff edition of the Dave Pash Podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm your host Arizona Cardinals play by play announcer and
Speaker 1: ESPN announcer Dave Pash. Our guest this week is Christian Kirk,
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals leading receiver in twenty twenty one and
Speaker 1: a native of Scottsdale. So one of the reasons I
Speaker 1: wanted to get Christian on this show to talk about
Speaker 1: being a local and being part of the cardinals first
Speaker 1: playoff team in six years. The aura of when an
Speaker 1: Arizona sports team is making it to that game and
Speaker 1: they're able to bring the valley together, it just really
Speaker 1: means a lot. And as a kid, it really hit
Speaker 1: home for me. So I always knew, you know, once
Speaker 1: I got drafted here, that that's what I wanted to
Speaker 1: do for this team. Christian will discuss what he expects
Speaker 1: Monday night in Los Angeles. It's so far when the
Speaker 1: playoffs get underway. He'll also address the good and the
Speaker 1: bad from this regular season. Christian will talk about what
Speaker 1: it means to be a part of a playoff team
Speaker 1: being that he's from Phoenix, and I'll also talk about
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Speaker 1: Next step. Time now for our conversation with Cardinals wide
Speaker 1: receiver Christian Kirk. So, Christian, let's first of all address
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday, because it's easy for us to say, okay,
Speaker 1: you reset, you move on. It's a new season, a
Speaker 1: fresh start for the Cardinals. But the way things ended
Speaker 1: on Sunday, coupled with what happened in Los Angeles, is
Speaker 1: that a little hard for you guys just to flush
Speaker 1: it and say, okay, reset, new season. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to take a couple of days
Speaker 1: for us to um really flush it, you know, especially
Speaker 1: coming into the locker room after a disappointing loss, and
Speaker 1: you know, hearing that La lost and all we had
Speaker 1: to do is win to win the division, and you
Speaker 1: know that was one of our goals. And you know
Speaker 1: it hurts, especially with after we how we played on Sunday.
Speaker 1: A lot of it is just you know, things on
Speaker 1: our side that we can fix. Granted, you know, Seattle
Speaker 1: came out and played a great game. We knew that's
Speaker 1: a great team. You know, that's that's a rivalry game,
Speaker 1: and we knew that that was going to be their
Speaker 1: super Bowl, and we didn't match their intensity. We didn't
Speaker 1: match um, you know, everything that they were doing and
Speaker 1: so um, you know it ended up us losing, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, those are key contributors to you know, how
Speaker 1: games like that turn out. So for us, it's it's
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be important to look at
Speaker 1: the film, Um, keep correcting, keep looking at you know,
Speaker 1: where we went wrong, and use that going into you know,
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So I'm calling the game, yeah, today, the
Speaker 1: Cardinals game, but I'm also calling the Rams game like
Speaker 1: off the television too, because you're trying to update everybody
Speaker 1: and what's going on so that they're you know, kept
Speaker 1: abreast of what's happening in both games and how that
Speaker 1: impacts the Cardinals. So I'm scoreboard watching all of us
Speaker 1: are Yeah, were you guys? Are you guys paying attention
Speaker 1: to what's going on in the other game in your
Speaker 1: game on Sunday? You know, it's funny. I'm probably one
Speaker 1: of the few that even noticed this, But we have
Speaker 1: the scoreboard, clickers and stadium where usually you can look
Speaker 1: and see what teams around the league are doing in
Speaker 1: the scores, and I noticed they took the rams and
Speaker 1: forty nine ers one off. There's a missing a little
Speaker 1: box where it would go. So I noticed that pretty
Speaker 1: early into the game. So there was no scoreboard watching
Speaker 1: for me. I knew I wasn't going to be able
Speaker 1: to find out until laughter. I think that that's a
Speaker 1: good thing, you know, for us to not I'll be
Speaker 1: running back to the sideline and looking up to see,
Speaker 1: you know, what's going on. You know, we had a
Speaker 1: focus on what we were doing. Look, you guys are
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. That's a big deal, right if you
Speaker 1: take it out of context with what happened against Seattle
Speaker 1: and the last ten games after the seven h start
Speaker 1: going four and six, it's a big deal. First times,
Speaker 1: there's twenty fifteen first time for you, first time for
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that you've been in the playoffs. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's a tremendous opportunity for us. And like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: I mean I was here in two thousand and eighteen
Speaker 1: when we only won three games five games the following year,
Speaker 1: and then you know, last year we won eight games
Speaker 1: battle to get into the playoffs and didn't make it,
Speaker 1: came up one game short, and to have the season
Speaker 1: that we've had. At times, you almost, you know, when
Speaker 1: you're on an eight game winning street, you forget how
Speaker 1: hard it is to win games in this league, and
Speaker 1: you almost take it for granted, and then you get
Speaker 1: humbled by going you know, it was a four and
Speaker 1: six and in the last stretch and you start to remember,
Speaker 1: you know this, this is the NFL. If you don't
Speaker 1: show up to play your best every Sunday, you will
Speaker 1: lose and you will continue to lose until you fix that.
Speaker 1: And you know, for me, I don't the you know,
Speaker 1: memory of you know, only winning three games and not
Speaker 1: even you know, being competitive to now making it to
Speaker 1: the playoffs and being able to be on that play
Speaker 1: in that stage and you know, have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: you know, if we continue winning, um, making it to
Speaker 1: the place where you know, we all dream of as
Speaker 1: as as young kids. So I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: important for everybody to you know, really hone in on
Speaker 1: you know what this means to them and um, you know,
Speaker 1: really trying to be the best that they can be.
Speaker 1: You played in big games in the SEC. You've played
Speaker 1: in big regular season games, and you said, look, we're
Speaker 1: this is I remember losing thirteen games in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: What do you think it'll be like Monday when you
Speaker 1: walk out there? What do you think the game will
Speaker 1: be like? Everybody says it's faster, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: more physical. Maybe it's called differently by the officials, Like
Speaker 1: what are your expectations for what it will be like
Speaker 1: on Monday in Los Angeles? You know, I'm honestly curious,
Speaker 1: you know, I was. I was thinking about that. You know,
Speaker 1: we we've played in some big time games, you know,
Speaker 1: I I think you know, when we play the Packers,
Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of guys who said, hey, I've
Speaker 1: been to the playoffs. This will be similar. Feel you know,
Speaker 1: when you have two you know, top teams in the
Speaker 1: NFL playing on primetime, you know, especially we're playing on
Speaker 1: Monday night. You know, I can imagine I'll have somewhat
Speaker 1: of a similar feel. But yes, you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like the sense of urgency and the heightened you know,
Speaker 1: intensity of the game. You'll be able to feel that,
Speaker 1: and you know every single play that nobody will be
Speaker 1: taking a playoff just because you know you're playing for
Speaker 1: it to not be your last play. Being a hometown guy,
Speaker 1: does it mean more to you that you're part of
Speaker 1: an Arizona Cardinals team that has made the playoffs one
Speaker 1: thousand percent. It's been my only goal since I've been here,
Speaker 1: is you know, to make it the playoffs and bring
Speaker 1: a super Bowl, you know, to Arizona, just because I remember,
Speaker 1: you know, the last time Cardinals played, you know, in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, just the buzz and the energy. And
Speaker 1: you saw it similarly with the Suns this past year,
Speaker 1: just how they talk about rally the valley. You know,
Speaker 1: it really was, you know, the valley came together and
Speaker 1: you know, we were having neighborhood watch parties and just
Speaker 1: the aura of when an Arizona sports team is making
Speaker 1: it to that that game and they're able to bring
Speaker 1: the valley together it just really means a lot, and
Speaker 1: as a kid, it really hit home for me. So
Speaker 1: I always knew, you know, once I got drafted here,
Speaker 1: that that's what I wanted to do for this team.
Speaker 1: You had a pretty good memory. You were twelve years
Speaker 1: old and you remember what it was like. Yeah, Cardinals
Speaker 1: made the run. Yeah, I mean I specifically remember, you know,
Speaker 1: the whole entire playoff run in to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You know, we were having neighborhood watch parties, you know,
Speaker 1: all our neighbors. You know, we'd getting into one of
Speaker 1: our neighbors garages, we'd watch the games and you know,
Speaker 1: going crazy cooking food and like I said, just just
Speaker 1: the aura and the buzz you know, around the valley
Speaker 1: was just unreal. What do you remember? And maybe you
Speaker 1: don't because you're off at am, you're in college. Do
Speaker 1: you remember twenty fifteen? Do you remember that postseason for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals coming within one game of the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: I do, And you know I remember, you know, when
Speaker 1: they traveled down to Carolina and you know that one
Speaker 1: hurt and obviously I wasn't here, so watching it from home,
Speaker 1: watching it back in Texas. Uh, you know, I was
Speaker 1: the loan proud Cardinal, you know, in that locker room
Speaker 1: and where I was watching it, but still the same thing,
Speaker 1: you know, you know how excited everybody was to see
Speaker 1: the team have the success that they were having, and
Speaker 1: you know, they ultimately did have a great season, and
Speaker 1: you know there's still you know, one of the historically
Speaker 1: best teams you know that has ever come through you know,
Speaker 1: this organization. You talked about one of your goals being
Speaker 1: to get the Cardinals to the playoffs and bring a
Speaker 1: championship to the valley. Being from here Swaro High School
Speaker 1: in Scottsdale, how important was that experience for you playing
Speaker 1: high school football here locally in terms of getting you
Speaker 1: to where you are today. You know, it was very important.
Speaker 1: And I was blessed to play under the best staff
Speaker 1: and you know, Arizona High School football led by you know,
Speaker 1: coach Jason Mons, who had been my coach since I
Speaker 1: was in the fourth grade, and you know, he impacted
Speaker 1: my life and you know so many different ways and
Speaker 1: it's still so important in my life and just helping
Speaker 1: me get to where I wanted to be and uh,
Speaker 1: you know never lost out and always you know, gave
Speaker 1: me the ability to go out there and show what
Speaker 1: I can do and help, you know, lead the team
Speaker 1: along the way. And you know, the main thing for
Speaker 1: me especially that was one of the big things that
Speaker 1: were going to Texas A and M is. I wanted
Speaker 1: to put Arizona on the map. That's that was my
Speaker 1: biggest thing. I got a tattoo of the Grand Canyon
Speaker 1: with the Arizona state flag on my shoulder before I
Speaker 1: went to Texas A and M and everybody could see it,
Speaker 1: you know, when I was out there playing, you know,
Speaker 1: people slowly but surely started seeing the Arizona the Grand
Speaker 1: Canyon and the flag, and I just wanted to show
Speaker 1: all the kids that were up and coming, you know
Speaker 1: here locally in the valley, like you can do it too.
Speaker 1: You know. For a while, the narrative was, oh, they
Speaker 1: play in Arizona. There's not that great a football out
Speaker 1: there that talents and you know, they have one player
Speaker 1: here and there that that that goes in a successful
Speaker 1: in college football. But I knew we have talent everywhere
Speaker 1: and we have great players, and I think, you know,
Speaker 1: we are seeing it now. You know how many top
Speaker 1: five star kids and four star kids are coming out
Speaker 1: of the valley that are going to the next level
Speaker 1: and being very successful. I wanted to just be almost
Speaker 1: like a light, to light on that path for those kids, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can do it too. Have you had any experiences
Speaker 1: where you've had somebody come up to you that, you know,
Speaker 1: either a parent or a kid that's in high school
Speaker 1: that said, hey, I want to be like Christian Kirk.
Speaker 1: I want I want to be a guy that you
Speaker 1: know plays for the Cardinals that grew up here. Definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, not as specific as you know playing for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. I mean, I'm sure that's every you know,
Speaker 1: local kids dream is to play for the Cardinals. Um.
Speaker 1: But I've definitely had parents and you know kids, you know,
Speaker 1: especially from Sawaro that obviously one say that you know,
Speaker 1: they appreciate, you know, all that I've done for the community,
Speaker 1: and you know, kind of being a septing zone for
Speaker 1: you know, their kids or their journey to you know,
Speaker 1: get to where they are and just be an inspiration
Speaker 1: and that, you know, that's what keeps him be going
Speaker 1: because I was that kid, you know too, looking up
Speaker 1: to Larry Fitzgerald and an kum Bowden and everybody coming
Speaker 1: you know through here and trying to be in their position.
Speaker 1: One day. All right, let's talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about this team and what's ahead here against the Rams.
Speaker 1: Let's start with talking about the potential return of JJ Watt.
Speaker 1: When the Cardinals announced last week that he was being
Speaker 1: taken off injured reserve and over the next twenty one
Speaker 1: days would be eligible to be activated, there was a
Speaker 1: big national buzz jj Watt, you know, with what he's
Speaker 1: done over the course of his career, as as big
Speaker 1: of a name as there is, certainly on the defensive
Speaker 1: side in the NFL. If JJ's back, what does that
Speaker 1: do for your locker room first of all? And then
Speaker 1: what do you think that could mean on the field
Speaker 1: for you guys to have him in the game Monday night?
Speaker 1: It means a lot on and off the field, you know,
Speaker 1: having a in the locker room and you know, being i'
Speaker 1: gonna see ninety nine run out there on the field,
Speaker 1: I think it does a lot. You know, Like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: he's done so much in this league, and he's so
Speaker 1: established and no matter what you feel, his presence out
Speaker 1: there and the fact that he's even in the position
Speaker 1: to get back out there and play on Sunday is unreal.
Speaker 1: And I was giving him credit last week. This whole time,
Speaker 1: you know, he's been rehabbing. I didn't see his schedule
Speaker 1: or his regime change one day. You know, he was
Speaker 1: consistent doing the same thing every single day. And you
Speaker 1: know that's the reason why he's JJ Watt. You know,
Speaker 1: he's been doing that his whole entire career, and so
Speaker 1: I just, you know, tip my hat to him. And
Speaker 1: you know the fact that he works so hard to
Speaker 1: get back and come back and lead us and still
Speaker 1: has been leading us, you know, even you know, throughout
Speaker 1: his injury. I think it'll be big for us to
Speaker 1: get him back. You know, one of the things that
Speaker 1: fans are talking about this week, and it's something they've
Speaker 1: been talking about all season, is the inconsistency of the team,
Speaker 1: inconsistency of the offense, inconsistency of Kyler. But clearly Kyler
Speaker 1: has grown from year one to year two, year two
Speaker 1: to year three, and he's accomplished a lot. He's been
Speaker 1: he's going to a second probo all, he's been Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year and now he's led a team to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. How have you seen him bro any personal
Speaker 1: stories you can share or just watching him work behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. What have you noticed about him and his maturation. Well,
Speaker 1: I think he's more defined on portraying to you know,
Speaker 1: us as skill players in the offense of you know,
Speaker 1: what he's looking for and what he wants and what
Speaker 1: he's comfortable with from a vocal part aspect. You know,
Speaker 1: at first when he first came in, and that's all
Speaker 1: of us as rookies, you don't really say much. You know,
Speaker 1: you kind of just go with the play call, go
Speaker 1: with the scheme. If you don't like it, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, you run it anyways. For him, now, you know,
Speaker 1: he's really taking control of the offense. You know, we're
Speaker 1: getting looks that you know, he doesn't like co check
Speaker 1: out of it. He did a great job. You know,
Speaker 1: we saw it last week against Dallas, you know in
Speaker 1: that four minute where he was checking out of some
Speaker 1: plays and getting his end too, you know, some some
Speaker 1: run options where you know, we made some big plays
Speaker 1: at the end to seal it. And he's done the
Speaker 1: same in the passing game. And I just think he's
Speaker 1: slowly but surely, you know, really growing into that vocal
Speaker 1: leader that we need to really you know, command the offense.
Speaker 1: And you know, one thing I always commend about him
Speaker 1: is I never questioned his you know, will to go
Speaker 1: out there and win. You know, I know that's the
Speaker 1: most important thing to him, and you know I see
Speaker 1: it from him every single Sunday, no matter what win
Speaker 1: or lost. That you know, he's putting it all on
Speaker 1: the line out there most of the time. To win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, you have to have a great quarterback.
Speaker 1: There have been teams that have won Super Bowls without
Speaker 1: a great quarterback. But man, I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: guys come through this league doing this for twenty years
Speaker 1: and doing college football for ESPN for almost twenty years
Speaker 1: and seeing great players come through there. And Kyler can
Speaker 1: do some things I've never seen before. Patrick Mahomes was
Speaker 1: that guy where like, okay, I've never seen a guy
Speaker 1: play the position like Patrick Mahomes. But there are things
Speaker 1: that Kyler Murray can do that Mahomes can't. The quickness
Speaker 1: that he has, the burst in the run game, because
Speaker 1: Kyler has a skill set that is unique. It is elite.
Speaker 1: And for you, as a receiver and guys in that room,
Speaker 1: do you think coming into the playoffs, there's something to
Speaker 1: that like, hey, we can follow this guy. This is
Speaker 1: a guy that can take us there. I know it's
Speaker 1: a team game. This is a guy that can get
Speaker 1: us to a different level one percent. You know, I
Speaker 1: think his dynamic ability and his ability to extend plays
Speaker 1: with his legs and you know, be able to be
Speaker 1: a part of the run game, and with what he
Speaker 1: can do in the past game, you know, those are
Speaker 1: plays that need to be made in the playoffs. You know,
Speaker 1: there are going to be times where the protection is
Speaker 1: going to break down and we're gonna need him to
Speaker 1: scramble and you know, make one of those crazy plays
Speaker 1: that you know he makes every single game. And we're
Speaker 1: fortunate to have that, you know, because if you have
Speaker 1: an immobile quarterback, it's harder to do some things that
Speaker 1: we do schematically, and you know how we install some
Speaker 1: of our plays and you know, just for us in
Speaker 1: our receiver room, any to play that is called or
Speaker 1: put in that week, you know, it's not hey, you know, HEYJ,
Speaker 1: we need you to go here so you can get
Speaker 1: Christian open, or Christian we need you to go here
Speaker 1: to get AJ open. Everybody's open on any single play.
Speaker 1: I mean there's been multiple times, you know, this season
Speaker 1: where we've practiced a player where it's gone to that
Speaker 1: guy four times that week, and then we get into
Speaker 1: the game and Kyler throws the backside, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's just how his brain operates, because one thing he
Speaker 1: does really well is adjust with how the game is
Speaker 1: going and just with what the defense is giving him,
Speaker 1: and if he sees it, you know he's going to
Speaker 1: take it. And so in our room, you know that'll
Speaker 1: be a big thing for us, especially going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Is still continuing that. It is just making sure we're
Speaker 1: adjusting with him and you know, making those plays when
Speaker 1: they come to us. You had a career, Christian, you
Speaker 1: had almost eighty catches, almost a thousand yards. I know
Speaker 1: you were short of that mark eighteen yards short of
Speaker 1: a thousand yards. Was that a personal goal for you?
Speaker 1: Do you set personal goals coming into and I know
Speaker 1: it's contract year, so it's an important year. How much
Speaker 1: did you think about that in the offseason coming into
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one? You know, I was thinking about it
Speaker 1: last night because disappointed about the loss, definitely wanted to
Speaker 1: get to a thousand yards just kind of a lot
Speaker 1: of my mind. But when I really sat down and
Speaker 1: looked at it coming into this year, personally, my one
Speaker 1: soul goal was to stay healthy all season, and that
Speaker 1: was the one goal that I hit and I'm okay
Speaker 1: with that. That's what helped me go to sleep at night.
Speaker 1: It was, you know what, the one goal, and I
Speaker 1: said it from day one, is I just want to
Speaker 1: be healthy for all seventeen games and make sure I'm
Speaker 1: available for my team to be the best player that
Speaker 1: I can be for all seventeen games. That's my one goal.
Speaker 1: And I accomplished that. So I can't be mad at that.
Speaker 1: Whatever yards, whatever catches, whatever touchdowns, whatever I ended up with,
Speaker 1: that was good enough. But as long as I was
Speaker 1: on the field to be available, I was okay with that,
Speaker 1: and so I think that's what contributed to me, you know,
Speaker 1: having a career years I was available, and you know,
Speaker 1: I really took that stuff to heart because I'd never
Speaker 1: been hurt my whole entire career until I got here.
Speaker 1: You Know, I had an unfortunate broken foot my rookie year,
Speaker 1: unfortunate you know, high ankle spraining, which are terrible injuries
Speaker 1: in my second year and kind of nagged and bogged
Speaker 1: me down through the end of that year. And then
Speaker 1: you know, last year, I missed the game with a
Speaker 1: groin and missed the game with COVID and it's almost
Speaker 1: like I can't catch a break. And I've never experienced this,
Speaker 1: and so I knew if I could just be healthy
Speaker 1: and be strong and be out there and confident that hey,
Speaker 1: you know, on myself, I can be available, just go
Speaker 1: out there and play. Everything else would take you know,
Speaker 1: advantage of you know, of itself. Did you do anything
Speaker 1: differently in the off seas to prepare it for this
Speaker 1: year or was it just simply you got lucky? Because
Speaker 1: I hate when you know, unfortunately a lot of people
Speaker 1: in our business, hey, well he's injury prone. And yeah,
Speaker 1: there are some guys that you know are always injured
Speaker 1: and it is because you know, they had an ankle
Speaker 1: and that ankle leads to an achilles or whatever. But
Speaker 1: I mean, you, like you said, you had so many
Speaker 1: different things. So was it just good luck this year
Speaker 1: or was there something different you did from a conditioning standpoint,
Speaker 1: strength training or whatever in the off season to get ready. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I mean, some guy go with
Speaker 1: their whole career without getting hurt, and it's like that's
Speaker 1: just lucky, you know, because some of us go out
Speaker 1: there and we get in injuries that are so unlucky
Speaker 1: on plays that you know, you would never even guess
Speaker 1: the guy got injured on, you know. But for me, yes,
Speaker 1: the offseason played a big part in it, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm pretty regimented and you know, have a
Speaker 1: pretty good offseason program. I think the key for me
Speaker 1: was the consistency throughout the season, really finding a routine
Speaker 1: for myself, a warm up, a recovery every single day
Speaker 1: that I can do that I know works for my body,
Speaker 1: and it's easy to do it weeks one through eight,
Speaker 1: but it's week fourteen, fifteen, sixteen seventeen when I'm tired
Speaker 1: and I really don't want to do the warm up
Speaker 1: and it's cold outside and I don't want to go
Speaker 1: out thirty minutes before practice. Those are the days where
Speaker 1: it's that starts to add up, and then that's what
Speaker 1: helps you kind of boost you into the end of
Speaker 1: that season, because you know, especially towards the end, you
Speaker 1: know that's when guy's body start breaking down and you
Speaker 1: really see some of the injuries. So I think that
Speaker 1: was the key for me. A couple more we'll get
Speaker 1: you out here. Tell me about the clothing line you started,
Speaker 1: the name of it, why you named it, what you did,
Speaker 1: and what type of clothes you're offering. Yeah, this Air
Speaker 1: liber Avenue, it was a little offseason venture that I
Speaker 1: did this past year and just had the opportunity brought
Speaker 1: to me to collaborate with some people out in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: A great team around me, and so I think all
Speaker 1: good clothing lines have a story, and you know, me
Speaker 1: being Arizona loud and proud, I wanted to name it
Speaker 1: after the street that I grew up on, Air Libra
Speaker 1: Avenue and just kind of tell the story of you know,
Speaker 1: my vision and you know, my kind of seeing Arizona
Speaker 1: through my lens. And it's just you know, streetwear, clothing
Speaker 1: and stuff that everybody can wear. And you know, I
Speaker 1: thought it came out great and it's just been fun
Speaker 1: to see everybody's response. Fans, friends, family, everybody supporting it.
Speaker 1: And it's been fun and you know, really looking forward
Speaker 1: to continuing it. Can we hook Ron Wolfley up with
Speaker 1: some of your clothing. I don't know if you've seen
Speaker 1: wolf dress, but he definitely needs a new wardrobe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can definitely get get Wolflee. All right, that's fair,
Speaker 1: all right, last one home road? What happened? I don't know,
Speaker 1: I was asking us earlier. I don't know that the
Speaker 1: team's ever lost five in a row at home and
Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl. I don't know that the team
Speaker 1: ever lost five in a row and made the playoffs
Speaker 1: five row at home. But you guys are eating one
Speaker 1: on the road, and you're playing in the road now
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And I've been asked one hundred times,
Speaker 1: probably more than a hundred why, and I can't come
Speaker 1: up with an answer. Do you guys have an answer?
Speaker 1: I don't think I have an answer for you either.
Speaker 1: It's it is. It's it's really unreal, you know, just
Speaker 1: the ratio, and and you know how we've performed because
Speaker 1: it it is. You know, it's it's out there in
Speaker 1: broad daylight. Of how we look on the road. It's
Speaker 1: totally different to how we look at home. And I
Speaker 1: think that'll be the number one question, you know, when
Speaker 1: this is all said and done, when we go back
Speaker 1: and look at it is, you know what happened and why?
Speaker 1: But I know for the future that's got to change,
Speaker 1: because you know, our fans deserve better. There's no reason
Speaker 1: why they should be looking forward to come and do
Speaker 1: a home game, you know, and we lose every game,
Speaker 1: you know, while we're here at home, and that's just
Speaker 1: on our end, that's unacceptable and we got to be better.
Speaker 1: And so that'll definitely be an area for the future
Speaker 1: that you know, we got to look at, you know,
Speaker 1: being better. Well, listen, man, I appreciate you coming in.
Speaker 1: You had a great season. Thank you playing all games,
Speaker 1: as you said, especially in the first year of a
Speaker 1: seventeen game season, when guys are dropping like flies around
Speaker 1: the league, that is an accomplishment to lead the team
Speaker 1: in receiving a big accomplishment, and you made the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Good luck on Monday in La. Thanks. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: having me all right, man. Great stuff from Christian Kirk,
Speaker 1: very open and honest about the good from this season,
Speaker 1: the bad, and also what to expect on Monday Night
Speaker 1: football in the postseason as the Cardinals face the Rams.
Speaker 1: I love his memory of being a twelve year old
Speaker 1: and celebrating the Cardinals run to the Super Bowl in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. I remember just about everything about
Speaker 1: that postseason run. And I just finished my twentieth year
Speaker 1: calling Arizona Cardinals games. Don't take for granted at all
Speaker 1: the opportunity to call these playoff games, and that two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight run to a Super Bowl where the
Speaker 1: Cardinals limped into the postseason. It reminds me of what
Speaker 1: we just witnessed, the Cardinals starting seven or no and
Speaker 1: then finishing poorly, losing four or five. But like that
Speaker 1: two eighteen, the Cardinals certainly are capable of getting on
Speaker 1: a run and we'll see if it happens Monday night
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles at SOFI Stadium. We are presented by BETMGM,
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Speaker 1: on Twitter at pashpod. Thanks to Christian Kirk for being
Speaker 1: our first postseason guest on the Dave Pash Podcast, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to you next Monday, the first Monday
Speaker 1: Night football playoff game Cardinals and Rams. I'm Dave Pash.
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