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Speaker 1: Hey, Club Shade listeners. We'll be back soon with weekly

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Speaker 1: episodes featuring brand new interviews with exciting roster guests. Until then,

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Speaker 1: enjoy this special rewind episode with one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: moments from Club Sha Shade. So far, all my life running,

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Speaker 1: all my life, sa fight, hustle, back, price one slice.

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Speaker 1: So if I said you could only choose one kick

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Speaker 1: off or punt returns, which one would you choose? I

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Speaker 1: like punk returns? Well, you like I could beat myself.

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Speaker 1: I could beat myself right kick off return. We all

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Speaker 1: know sideline right, sideline left for middle return right shoot,

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Speaker 1: well return, I could put a little I could put

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Speaker 1: a little cranbad juice and a a little crystal sauce on that.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean to do what I do,

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Speaker 1: and then go back to the return right. So that

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Speaker 1: was if let's just say, for the sake of artament, Devin,

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Speaker 1: they call we call a right return, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of times I don't know how you guys did it,

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Speaker 1: but we would set up to return towards our sideline.

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Speaker 1: Because you set it up the death sideline, they go

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Speaker 1: to be calling it out. So we normally set the

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Speaker 1: return up to our sidelines. So it's gonna be quiet.

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Speaker 1: But the return up. We never had a returner like

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Speaker 1: you did you automatically like, okay, we gotta right return.

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Speaker 1: I gotta make sure I get to the right, or

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Speaker 1: you say, you know what, I'm gonna trick him. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do a little dancing over here and pretend like

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go left. I'm gonna start left a little ways,

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Speaker 1: knowing that you're gonna get back to the right. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: See the when when me and coach they build a

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Speaker 1: relationship where he really had conforence at me and was

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Speaker 1: ever for me to voice my opinion. I say, listen,

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Speaker 1: whenever you want to touchdown, just double the gunners. I

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Speaker 1: don't give a damn about the fat boys up front. Right,

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Speaker 1: double the gun and let me get started. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do do what I do and let all the returns

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Speaker 1: go to the field. You let all returns go to

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Speaker 1: the field. I'm gonna find me a hole, right because

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Speaker 1: I'm a great one. Right, double the gunners. I don't

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Speaker 1: care rutting a fat boy lead upon it and a

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Speaker 1: long snapper, do not block them too. That's a waste

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Speaker 1: of a guy. Not block the lone snapper or the punner.

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Speaker 1: Now we got she got a block. So now that

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Speaker 1: you now that you mentioned that, which is worse getting

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Speaker 1: tackled by the long snapper of the punterer or getting halt?

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Speaker 1: Which one is worse? Yes? Getting holt? Man, Come on back, listen.

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Speaker 1: If you get hold you know, man, listen, that's that sticks.

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Speaker 1: That's a person like a fat person. You can't get

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Speaker 1: a hol Okay, who is right? So you say, look,

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Speaker 1: you can say the putter had the angle over me.

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Speaker 1: He pushed me out of that out of bounds. He

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Speaker 1: really didn't make the tackle. But what about the long stay?

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Speaker 1: What about the long snacker. It's long snapper, same thing.

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Speaker 1: He just he's just gonna try to wall and push

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Speaker 1: out a boy aggle nobody tightening you you mean they

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Speaker 1: just gonna play the egg or you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: They hold somebody here? Ever, come before I run pass him?

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Speaker 1: So what was your thought you get a kicker? You say,

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Speaker 1: let's just say you're five yards away from the kicker.

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Speaker 1: What's going through your mind? Are you like, okay, i'most

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Speaker 1: almost stuttering. I'm gonna take playing to the field and

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Speaker 1: come back to the sideline. What's your thought process? How

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Speaker 1: are you sitting him up. I'm gonna eat this ground up,

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Speaker 1: He's gonna sit now like a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: I'm eating up his cushion right, I'm trying to get

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Speaker 1: You're keeping that straight stem, you keeping right at him.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go right at him, straight at him. So

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Speaker 1: I get about two three yards from him, then him

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Speaker 1: he might sit down. I don't have a couple of

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Speaker 1: point him. I get up on him. They sit right

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Speaker 1: you think about it, teams not kicking. You mentioned teams

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Speaker 1: they don't have the ball. Think about it. Team said,

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Speaker 1: just gonna put it out of bounds. Forget that hanging

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Speaker 1: definitely matter. You know, we even made commercials I'm kicking

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Speaker 1: punners coming up to me before the game doing pregame

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Speaker 1: one more like, Man, you're gonna mess my stats. Up

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Speaker 1: to day, I was averaging forty eight yards of punt.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm for to drop the thirty two because I

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Speaker 1: gotta kick the ball out of bounds twenty yards right when? Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: so your returner, you could play DV in college, you

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Speaker 1: transition says I want more this. Yeah. I love returning

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Speaker 1: punts and kicked, but I believe I can do a

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Speaker 1: little bit more on the offense. What made you come

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Speaker 1: It was because I wanted to be honest Coach Love.

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Speaker 1: It brought that tell my attention the minute they start

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Speaker 1: kicking away from him, and he was like, Devon, to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, man, you're probably and it gotta

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Speaker 1: be in the top two, top three more dynamic player

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Speaker 1: League right now, teams are kicking it out of bounds.

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Speaker 1: I gotta find a way to get the ball in

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Speaker 1: to movie over the offense, right. And that's why I

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Speaker 1: got to move over the offense because the punters and

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Speaker 1: the team started kicking the ball to me. They would

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Speaker 1: the contract because you said, let that I'm not just

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Speaker 1: I say, hey, y'all, hey, y'all need the factor that

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Speaker 1: Let's go up back to you your younger years. You

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Speaker 1: at first, which was he worked at the Boys Girl Club. Okay,

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Speaker 1: That's also that's all I knewest football, football, and all

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Speaker 1: back flips and all the type of stuff. Right, So

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Speaker 1: It was a covered schools I wanted to go to,

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Speaker 1: what I mean? That was It wasn't It wasn't a

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Speaker 1: they believe you didn't take the SAT. Tell the story.

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Speaker 1: So that story went down like you know, like when

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Speaker 1: got potential. Right, they started making earlier. You don't wait

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Speaker 1: you do not get it back. Right. They seen you're

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Speaker 1: you're a track guy, right, I got foot on football speed.

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Speaker 1: I ain't I ain't gonna lot to say, ain't no

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Speaker 1: track guy. But forty yard there, yeah, man, listen man,

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Speaker 1: I ran the fastest ten yards split in miam in history.

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Speaker 1: I ran on one three four in a ten yard

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Speaker 1: my freshman year brother. They would not tell me my

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Speaker 1: time and afforded because they said I was too young.

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Speaker 1: I used DJ William. If you know DJ William will

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Speaker 1: getting Clark running forty you know what to do. Hit

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