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Inside the Charge: Dion Dawkins Talks Josh Allen, Boxing, Drifting and More! · Inside the Charge

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into this week's episode of Inside the Charge.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Maddy Glabbin.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're joined by Bill's left tackle Dion Dawkins. It's
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  Speaker 1: a doozy of a podcast. You know, anytime that Dion
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  Speaker 1: opens his mouth, it's going to be a great time.
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  Speaker 1: Dion gets into the mindset on the sidelines during their
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  Speaker 1: epic comeback win over the Ravens. He gets real about
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  Speaker 1: what players feel in those moments. Dion also discusses how
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  Speaker 1: boxing and drifting have made him a better offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 1: dives into why he thinks he's in year ten in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL instead of year nine, and there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of laughs along the way.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy the episode.
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  Speaker 1: Dion, you had a crazy comeback win against the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: in week one. When did you smell it in the
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  Speaker 1: air that Josh Allen was ripe for comeback.
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  Speaker 3: When Josh looked at us on a sideline and said,
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  Speaker 3: we're still in it, I looked at him like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: that's when I knew that we were still in this game.
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  Speaker 3: But anything can happen when Josh is on the field.
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  Speaker 3: You know, natural competitive spirit, You get nervous, you look
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  Speaker 3: at the score, You're like, wow, this is just one
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  Speaker 3: of those ones.
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  Speaker 4: Cool, it'd be like that.
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  Speaker 3: And then you have an MVP quarterback that walks by
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  Speaker 3: you and says, we're still in the game, stay in it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, here we go, let's pass pro,
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  Speaker 3: let's plast block, let's get him down the field.
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  Speaker 1: What are the sidelines like in games like that where
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  Speaker 1: it's tight, the game is on the line, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Left to do to get the win.
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  Speaker 4: You want to know the truth? Tell me you want
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  Speaker 4: to lie or the truth?
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  Speaker 2: The truth?
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'll tell you a lie.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is on the field on the sideline in their
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  Speaker 3: best spirit. Everybody's happy, jolly, doing their thing, singing kumbaya.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm absolutely joking.
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  Speaker 3: You're asking about how the sideline is during those situations.
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  Speaker 1: Because there's probably some guys who are raw ra and
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  Speaker 1: can be that way in those moments. But you probably
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  Speaker 1: have some players too who are a little down and
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  Speaker 1: out and who need a pep talk for sure. How
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  Speaker 1: do you, as a veteran approach that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very different, you know, I understand what's going on,
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  Speaker 3: and when it comes down to it, just try your
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  Speaker 3: best to do your job, try your best to do
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  Speaker 3: your job, try your best not let not to be
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  Speaker 3: the problem. You know, some sometimes things happen, Like when
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  Speaker 3: you're onlineman, there's flags, and there's false starts, and there's
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  Speaker 3: holdings and there's this, and there's penalties and there's that's that's.
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  Speaker 4: A part of the game.
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  Speaker 3: I keep my mind in what's next, next, Play next,
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  Speaker 3: play next, play right. You do have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys that are like very emotional, right, very emotional, and
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  Speaker 3: very like, man, this come on, that's what football is.
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  Speaker 3: But realistically, everybody's that I've seen in our first real battle,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's kind of just neutral. Everybody's still like looking around
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  Speaker 3: trying to find which guys which and who to lean
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  Speaker 3: on and who to look at for confidence and you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, But me, I just try to just stay here, man.
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  Speaker 3: I just try to stay right where I'm at, and
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  Speaker 3: I look at chrome and I see how chromer is
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  Speaker 3: and control what we can block. If they call this display,
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  Speaker 3: block that play, execute that play, we can't do anything.
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  Speaker 4: We are blockers. Make sure you block.
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  Speaker 3: Let the people that catch the ball catch the ball,
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  Speaker 3: Let the people that run the ball run the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Let the people that passed the ball pass the ball.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people are seeing that Josh Allen was
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  Speaker 1: calm and confident in those moments, executing those drives to
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  Speaker 1: come back from fifteen points behind.
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  Speaker 2: You say you are play to play.
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  Speaker 1: When did you grow into becoming that type of person
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  Speaker 1: who could have that mindset that's not easy to do
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  Speaker 1: in you know, year one, year two, where.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it's the NFL isles, it's big.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, honestly, Maddie, I'm very blessed when I
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  Speaker 3: got into the league. I had a good group of
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  Speaker 3: guys around, right with Sean McCoy, Richie Incognito, Eric Wood,
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Groy, Jordan Mills, John Miller. You know, I had
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  Speaker 3: a good room of guys, veteran guys that kind of
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  Speaker 3: prepped me early. And then I had to be a
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  Speaker 3: leader of the room early because all those guys left
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  Speaker 3: very very quick. So year two and three I was
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  Speaker 3: the leader of the old line room fast. So I
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  Speaker 3: would say, like year two, like year two, like I
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  Speaker 3: really adapted to the control what you can right, and
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  Speaker 3: then even coach rule right like in college, like he
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  Speaker 3: taught us that control and what you can be in
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  Speaker 3: a moment, control and what you can don't be here,
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  Speaker 3: don't be there, be present, right and controlling literally all
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  Speaker 3: you can and just do your job. That's we have
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  Speaker 3: this one eleven thing around the building and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: That's literally what our minds are. Do your job, do
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  Speaker 3: your one eleventh.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: If we're talking on the mic, ask the best questions,
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  Speaker 3: have the best you know, football guys, block, run, catch, pass, tackle,
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  Speaker 3: call the call, block the play, execute kick, you know,
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  Speaker 3: kick the game winner like things and like that, Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, do.
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  Speaker 4: Your job, Do your job. Do your job.
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  Speaker 2: Dean. You've been in the league for nine years?
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  Speaker 4: Can I correct that?
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  Speaker 2: That's a long time?
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  Speaker 4: Can I correct that for the people that's watching.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot and I process stuff a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, put you on game new math, new math.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's let's let's let's let's get the mathing. We
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  Speaker 3: are in a good football team. I'm in year nine,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm really in year ten. We've had enough games postseason.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm saying now.
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  Speaker 3: To another credited season. So yes, I am in year nine.
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  Speaker 3: So you is in year ten, right, That's just what
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  Speaker 3: it is. You have some teams that end right after
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  Speaker 3: Christmas January two, January fourth, Your season's over us. That
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  Speaker 3: We're thankful for the Buffalo Bills. We've been playing postseason
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  Speaker 3: year after year after year after year.
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  Speaker 4: Those games have added.
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  Speaker 3: Up to a tenth year to a tenth year in
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  Speaker 3: my mind, that's where I'm at because my body is
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  Speaker 3: talking about it.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, I've been here for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Let me correct myself.
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  Speaker 1: We've been in the league for ten years, Dan Good,
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  Speaker 1: a long time. What's different about year ten?
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  Speaker 3: My body feels like I'm in year twelve. No, the
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  Speaker 3: difference is it's just experience. You know, you learn how
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  Speaker 3: to love the game more, you learn how to process
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  Speaker 3: the game better, you learn how to slow the game down.
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  Speaker 4: And you have a bigger love for your community.
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  Speaker 3: The longer that I'm here, the more emotions jump into
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  Speaker 3: my lap.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the scariest part, Right, get a little softer,
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  Speaker 4: I get a little softer like for the community.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's just it's just like, you know, it's just
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  Speaker 3: like watching a kid grow up. You know, I've been
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  Speaker 3: here a long time. I'm thankful to be here a
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  Speaker 3: long time. But I would say that the biggest thing
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  Speaker 3: is you slow the football game down.
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  Speaker 4: I've mastered slowing the game down.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes you know you might make it look drastically
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  Speaker 3: different from the rest because of how you process it.
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  Speaker 1: Slowing the game down as an offensive lineman, hand placement
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  Speaker 1: is so important to what you're doing. When you're slowing
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  Speaker 1: the game down, you're probably able to fine tune those
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  Speaker 1: details in a split second.
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  Speaker 2: How do you perfect hand placement over time?
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  Speaker 4: Boxing? I box.
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  Speaker 3: Learned skill, but boxing, you know, like your hands just
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  Speaker 3: don't magically get better. You have to work on it.
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  Speaker 3: And I box, you know, and that's a gem, that
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  Speaker 3: that is a gem.
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  Speaker 4: But how do.
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  Speaker 1: Boxing take your hand placement in the game to the
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  Speaker 1: next level?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever been to like Dave and Busters, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: or to the fair where you step into the game
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  Speaker 3: and it has like all those lights and you got
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  Speaker 3: to hit like the blue lights and right like you
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 4: Do you know what I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you take home the gold in those moments, probably
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  Speaker 1: I walk away empty hand it.
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  Speaker 4: That is what boxing does for you.
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  Speaker 3: And when you're playing a defender and they're moving around
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  Speaker 3: and you're looking at the target move in front of you,
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  Speaker 3: and you got to hit the target right and you
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  Speaker 3: gotta and that little v of the neck is moving
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  Speaker 3: and you got to strike an opponent. That's what boxing
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  Speaker 3: does for you because typically, like when you're in the
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  Speaker 3: boxing ring and you're here, you're just jabbing. You're jabbing,
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  Speaker 3: you're you're moving your head and you're and you're just
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  Speaker 3: hitting the target the whole time, like while their head
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  Speaker 3: is moving the whole time. So that's what I've picked up.
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  Speaker 3: I looked at Trent. Trent boxed and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: why is he always boxing?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, if Trent's the best, I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: want to look into it, Okay. So then I looked
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  Speaker 3: into it and I was like, well, one, he's getting
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  Speaker 3: conditioned from boxing. Two he's making his hands better, which
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  Speaker 3: is making him better on the field from boxing.
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  Speaker 4: And three his footwork is getting.
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  Speaker 3: To an elite elite level because boxing is footwork as
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  Speaker 3: well as striking. That's the best of the trifecta. Like,
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  Speaker 3: why not adapted it into your game? So I said, Shoot,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a box and boxing is a part of this
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  Speaker 3: everyday life. Yep, and uh that's kind of what has
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  Speaker 3: elevated that part of my game.
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  Speaker 1: Senior praises when it comes to boxing, what's your best move, Dean?
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  Speaker 3: My best move? Yeah, my jab oh, I'll jab you
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  Speaker 3: to sleep. You know, straight jab, right hand jab, turn
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  Speaker 3: them over boom. You know a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 3: don't even know like how to really punch.
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  Speaker 2: I probably don't. I'm one of those people.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to punch, Let us punch, okay, But
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  Speaker 3: if you ever do have to punch, teach me.
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  Speaker 4: You know the punches.
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  Speaker 3: They all are here and everything turns over right, like
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  Speaker 3: you want to turn your punch over. So these two
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  Speaker 3: knuckles right here, if you ever look at your hand,
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  Speaker 3: why they are lifted out of your hand, like if
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  Speaker 3: you look at yours, these are down and this one's up.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: This is the knuckle you want to hit people with.
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  Speaker 3: That is the that's a jab, that's the sleeper. But
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  Speaker 3: the jab is just straight, straight jab, just just to
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  Speaker 3: keep them at distance, keep them away.
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  Speaker 4: But jabs win win you to fight. They will win
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  Speaker 4: you to fight.
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  Speaker 2: Boxing.
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  Speaker 1: You're into UFC. You went to the X Games this summer.
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  Speaker 1: You're into cars, deon. If you weren't an NFL player,
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  Speaker 1: what type of sports extreme sports would you be into
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  Speaker 1: would you be doing?
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  Speaker 4: Do you know Andrew? Who do you know Drew?
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  Speaker 2: No? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know Drew.
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  Speaker 2: What Andrew.
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  Speaker 4: True? True?
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  Speaker 2: Right here?
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  Speaker 4: True?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, of course I know Andrew.
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  Speaker 4: I know Andrew too.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: I'm stalling because I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think Drew knows Drew. If I can do anything
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  Speaker 3: outside of football, what would it be.
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  Speaker 1: I think you would be the lead singer of a
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  Speaker 1: lead singer of a pop punk band.
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  Speaker 4: I do agree.
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  Speaker 3: I told myself I love to be on stage one day,
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  Speaker 3: singing and performing for a crowd.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a huge Chris Brown fan, huge Tea Paint fan.
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  Speaker 3: Tea Paint is actually coming in October, which I want
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  Speaker 3: people to know. Gon't support Tea Pain right, I'll be there.
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  Speaker 3: I will be there, and I want the Mafia there.
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  Speaker 3: MafA needs to show our people. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I would maybe like try to be a WW wrestler
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  Speaker 3: like right now, as well as a drifter. Drifting is
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  Speaker 3: bread and butter, but something on like I like, like
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  Speaker 3: I'm an entertainer, Like I like to be on camera.
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  Speaker 4: I love production. I like the crew. I like the
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  Speaker 4: crew more than I love being on camera.
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  Speaker 3: Like I like hanging with the crew, like the it's
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  Speaker 3: a good hang deon'.
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  Speaker 4: It's a it's a good hang.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know, but it would be something on
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  Speaker 3: TV or something in my own funnel podcast world. I'll
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  Speaker 3: be doing something with my crew, traveling and just having
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  Speaker 3: a good time with the crew and being around with
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  Speaker 3: the crew.
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  Speaker 1: In Hard Knocks, you were featured drifting, which was epic.
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  Speaker 4: Facts.
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  Speaker 1: You spoke about how boxing makes you a better offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: Are there any elements of drifting that make you a
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  Speaker 1: better NFL player?
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  Speaker 3: Is there any elements of drifting that make me a
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  Speaker 3: better NFL player? Yes, Peripheral vision and hand eye coordination
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: of the e break and the shifter your feet is
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  Speaker 3: all I mean, Like your feet is gas break clutch.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, when you're driving and you're spinning the wheel,
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  Speaker 3: you're looking out the side of your eyes as well
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  Speaker 3: as the front of your eyes. The car goes where
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  Speaker 3: your eyes go, as well as your football play. Your
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  Speaker 3: eyes and your head is your steering wheel. If you're
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  Speaker 3: looking down, you're probably gonna fall. Okay, if you're looking
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  Speaker 3: at this opponent here, that's probably where you're gonna go.
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  Speaker 4: If you're looking here, you're trying to go here. You
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  Speaker 4: might not get there. But I look at that as
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  Speaker 4: in the car.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the peripheral vision helps within my football world. It's
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  Speaker 3: not a drastic bonus, but it helps, you know, because
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  Speaker 3: you're looking at the car and that's next to you,
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  Speaker 3: and you're looking here, and you're looking on the side,
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  Speaker 3: and you're just glimpsing over like this.
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  Speaker 4: While you're driving.
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  Speaker 1: Makes sense. We gotta get you meetings in a second.
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  Speaker 1: But one last question for you. You have a mural
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  Speaker 1: in Buffalo of your face. You're making an awesome face
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  Speaker 1: in it. The words we believe are at the top.
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  Speaker 1: What was your reaction when you found out your face
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  Speaker 1: would be on a wall in the city of Buffalo.
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  Speaker 4: It's just cool. It's just cool to like.
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  Speaker 3: To just be loved, right, Like I enjoy being loved
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  Speaker 3: right and I enjoyed loving people. I think when you
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  Speaker 3: do things well, it shouldn't just get overlooked. We should
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  Speaker 3: celebrate it.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that everything and that you do well,
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  Speaker 3: like there should be murals of everybody, but like, the
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  Speaker 3: organic love that you share with the people is true.
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  Speaker 4: And I love this community. I love the people here.
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  Speaker 3: I love where I'm at, like I love everything about
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  Speaker 3: where I'm at in my time, in my life. I
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  Speaker 3: love everything about it and to have that energy. What's
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  Speaker 3: the word reciprocated, right, I think it's just a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a true believer and people.
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  Speaker 3: Should receive organic and what they deserve, right, Like you're
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  Speaker 3: a great interviewer, you're a great writer, whatever it is
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  Speaker 3: that you do as a whole, you're great. Whatever it
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  Speaker 3: is you should receive that shows that you're great. I
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  Speaker 3: want you to have it, as well as Drew and Crew,
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  Speaker 3: as well as Josh, as well as the people that
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  Speaker 3: walk around with them, big cameras, everything. If you're good
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  Speaker 3: at your job, have something to show and receive something
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  Speaker 3: that shows that you're good.
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  Speaker 4: Right. It just makes no sense.
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  Speaker 3: But to the mireal part, I look at that like
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  Speaker 3: a trophy, right, I'm honored to receive that and have
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  Speaker 3: that connection with the community that they have my face up,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's my body too. Like downtown, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's Oxford Pennant, right, So shout out to them, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know it's it's It's really a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I get emotional about it because I'm just a kid, right,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just a grown man kid from Rahway that just
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  Speaker 3: enjoys having a good time and just spreading love and
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  Speaker 3: just supporting life, you know, but it's it's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 4: Like shoot, I feel like Lebron James.
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  Speaker 1: Man, You're Lebron James to us, Dion, and I love
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  Speaker 1: that you're feeling love from the community.
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  Speaker 2: I also love that the world got to see who you.
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  Speaker 1: Are and hard knocks this season because they deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody deserves a dose of Dion Dawkins in their life.
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  Speaker 1: Bitter Snow a little thanks for the time, appreciate always.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Inside the Charge.
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