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Speaker 1: Dante, just start by taking me through the entire free

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Speaker 1: agency process, something you've done before. But how did you

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Speaker 1: end up here in Pittsburgh? Um, it's crazy? Uh my dad.

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Speaker 1: My dad told me like four weeks ago that you're

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Speaker 1: You're seven phrasing to come around. And then like last

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Speaker 1: night at like eleven thirty and my agent called me.

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Speaker 1: I was like, how do you feel about going to pit?

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Speaker 1: The first thing came to my head was when my

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Speaker 1: don't want to pe, he gonna be like I told

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Speaker 1: I love the kind of pit. Every time I came

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Speaker 1: here to play, the fans was crazy. Um, you got

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Speaker 1: Ben Brockerberg is a Hall of Fame a quarterback and

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Speaker 1: just just being able to play with this team. Know

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Speaker 1: what this team is known for, known for winning. Um,

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Speaker 1: trying to get the Super Bowl and I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: whatever take to help them get that. Why did your

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Speaker 1: dad say Pittsburgh? Why did he think the Steelers just

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Speaker 1: something or what, No, that's his team. My dad still

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Speaker 1: a fans since forever. He's always been a still a fan.

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Speaker 1: Was been a big band fan. Low's Mike Thomas. So

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Speaker 1: when I told him I was coming, he was like

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Speaker 1: that that was the best thing you could ever do.

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Speaker 1: So wow, okay, So he's been a Steelers stand as

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Speaker 1: long as you can remember. Wow. So were you a

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Speaker 1: Steelers fan? Girling? I was a Titan fan. So Steve

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Typan fan. Very cool? All right? So did you

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Speaker 1: when I got the call from pit um my agent

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Speaker 1: Coleman what the deal was and did I want to

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Speaker 1: tell it? I said, yes, What do you remember you

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Speaker 1: were in this building for your pre draft is that

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Speaker 1: you've met with some of the key players that are

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Speaker 1: still here. So what do you remember from that time

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Speaker 1: and kind of going back that it's you're kind of

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Speaker 1: reliving it against coming here to sign your contract. First

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Speaker 1: time I came. When I walked in, I was super nervous,

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Speaker 1: and the first guy saw I was Mike Um. He

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Speaker 1: told me, told me my scrints when I was in colleges,

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Speaker 1: me things I could work on coming anti drafting. It's

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Speaker 1: coming in the building. You can feel the energy um

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Speaker 1: bet some of the older guys that was here at

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Speaker 1: the same time. And seeing those guys, you can tell

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Speaker 1: that what they believe in here is winning. Um. They

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Speaker 1: work hard. Have a few teammates that play with me

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Speaker 1: at old Misses year and now Mike Hilton and Levine Hooks,

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Speaker 1: and just in the way those guys come back and

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Speaker 1: work in obviouslys I can tell that it's built in

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Speaker 1: them the way they work. So I'm happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: Mana to go. I want to talk to you about

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Speaker 1: Mike Helton in just a second. But staying along the

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Speaker 1: lines of like meeting people here, you had a chance

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Speaker 1: to meet with your position coach, coach Drake. What it

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Speaker 1: about coming into a room where obviously there's some changes

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Speaker 1: great coach. Um. I can said, you've been coaching for

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Speaker 1: lot of great guys and young guys. It's it's hunger.

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Speaker 1: They want to play, and Uh, it's gonna keep me

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Speaker 1: on just going, o baby, to work and compete with

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Speaker 1: those guys and have fun with those guys. Would like Juju.

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Speaker 1: By the way he's celebrating end zone like that's keeping

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Speaker 1: me earlier a matter of fact. So that was the

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Speaker 1: first message was from Ben and who was just saying congrats.

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Speaker 1: He was glad I was here. He's ready to get

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Speaker 1: the work with man. Uh, I'm going to get to

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Speaker 1: work with him. Also, you know he's a great quarterback

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Speaker 1: and I'm ready to read all right, everybody talks about

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Speaker 1: your intangibles. You're tall, you're fast, What do you feel

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Speaker 1: like you're bringing to this team. I'm just bringing anything

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Speaker 1: put him the inside something, I can do that also,

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Speaker 1: And I'm the leading the room and push everybody and

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Speaker 1: make sure about to go hard and try to do

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Speaker 1: whatever it takes, even if it's special teams would make

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Speaker 1: this team better, all right. He brought up Mike Hilton

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Speaker 1: and I had a chance to talk to him today

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Speaker 1: and he told me to ask you about a very

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Speaker 1: popular YouTube video called feed Monie. Oh it's crazy. It

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Speaker 1: was my sophomore year. I was having a great season

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Speaker 1: and these guys hit and they was like, can we

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Speaker 1: make a song about you? And I was like, of course,

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Speaker 1: but all right, let's do it. And they're like they

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Speaker 1: played it one time and like it went crazy and awful,

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Speaker 1: and then we end up doing like a music video

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Speaker 1: and all the football players they're doing it. When we

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Speaker 1: played Arrival in the City State, I scored my first

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Speaker 1: turs down and they played the song and like the

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Speaker 1: whole stadium in the stadium the whole stadium just started

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Speaker 1: start rapping the song and it was it just went

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Speaker 1: crazy from that. Do you have one of the feed

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Speaker 1: mon creep T shirts? I heard those exacts. It was

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Speaker 1: everybody had a freed moncrease and it was crazy because

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Speaker 1: when I was just coming to Stamlea, this guy got

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Speaker 1: a feed monk who shut off and met one. So

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Speaker 1: I went to guy one or whatever. It was fun.

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Speaker 1: Mike is he going to be a big help to you?

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Speaker 1: Knowing Mike killing is just making the transition of moving

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Speaker 1: And then I told him I was coming. He was happy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he might have been competing for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Even when we go back and train and obviously we're

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Speaker 1: It gonna be fun. It would be competition and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna compete. I'm not, you know, I'm I'm I'm I'm not.

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