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Speaker 1: This is up on Game Presents Conversations with a Legend

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Speaker 1: with LeVar erringten and LeVar is sitting down with some

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Speaker 1: of the legends you have watched on and off the field.

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Speaker 1: This is up on Game Presents Conversations with a Legend.

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Speaker 1: And now here's LeVar Errington.

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Speaker 2: What's up, everybody, It's LeVar Arrington here Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: up on Game Conversations with a Legend. And we have

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Speaker 2: a legend in the making, a legend in his own right.

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Speaker 2: My man is doing big things, and he is a

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Speaker 2: big man that's doing big things.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: I got my man, Tron Armstead with me. He's Miami dolphin.

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Speaker 2: You know how you be a big dog but be

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Speaker 2: a big fish at the same time.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, but a dolphin isn't a fish. A dolphin

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Speaker 2: is a porpoise. You know they're they're mammals. They are mammals.

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Speaker 3: You know it.

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Speaker 4: Porpose dolphins the baddest thing in the water. You think

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Speaker 4: so absolutely.

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Speaker 2: You know that's true because you do know that a

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Speaker 2: killer well it's a dolphin.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, that's fair enough. We're see.

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Speaker 2: If y'all didn't think that football players had you know,

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Speaker 2: brain cells that were working on different levels of just

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Speaker 3: You just learned something very.

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Speaker 2: Very cool right there, that killer wells are in fact

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Speaker 2: and indeed dolphins.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about let's start with fins up,

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Speaker 3: let's do it. What happened?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: The challenges of a of a season?

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Speaker 4: You know, I missed a lot of unpredictability in every season.

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Speaker 4: You got, you got the you got your team, and

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Speaker 4: you want to you have your goals set and you're

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Speaker 4: you're chasing your goals on that path. Sometimes you you

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Speaker 4: gotta get lucky. Sometimes you're gonna be four. And we

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Speaker 4: had some unfortunate events. I'm not a guy of excuses,

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Speaker 4: of excuses at all. We we we wrote our own story,

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Speaker 4: We created our own our own lane. So we got

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Speaker 4: what we what we got, what we we got what

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Speaker 4: we deserved, you know what I mean. And the totality

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Speaker 4: of the season, we just came up short.

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Speaker 3: And that's fair.

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Speaker 2: But y'all good, and y'all young, How how does how

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Speaker 2: does Miami compare to when you.

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Speaker 3: Were in New Orleans?

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Speaker 4: How how does that It's a different makeup, It's a

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Speaker 4: different makeup. You know, I came I came to New

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Speaker 4: Orleans with with with Drew Brees. You know what I mean,

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Speaker 4: established Hall of Fame quarterback Sean Payton won a Super

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Speaker 4: Bowl already. So it's a different makeup it was. It's

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Speaker 4: a different foundation. When I got to Miami was it

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Speaker 4: was very young. I was only player at thirty, my

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Speaker 4: son to the Dolphins, and just a lot of a

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Speaker 4: lot of energy, a lot of growing that needed to

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Speaker 4: be done, a lot of teaching, a lot of educating

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Speaker 4: that to be done to win consistently. Now, the second year,

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Speaker 4: I think we made a lot of strides. We made

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Speaker 4: We became a smarter team. But we still had some

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Speaker 4: some growing pains. We still have some some issues, things

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Speaker 4: January and February. But I love the way to where

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Speaker 4: the path. I love our trajectory. Like Mike, he's a

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Speaker 4: cool dude, cool dude man.

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Speaker 3: He's like he's like I call him the hipster.

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Speaker 2: He's like a hipster, but he's like a cool last

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Speaker 2: coach man, Like you don't like he seems like I

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Speaker 2: never understood why it was hard for coaches and you

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Speaker 2: you're old enough to understand, like the changing the evolution

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Speaker 2: Like some a lot of them didn't let you know,

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Speaker 3: It seems like.

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Speaker 2: Coaches these days, especially the coach y'all got down there,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just like you, Just like you said, The old

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Speaker 4: And that's just what it was. Fair tactics and and

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Speaker 4: tough and we'll talk bad to you bad. Yeah, Sean

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Speaker 3: That's a fact.

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Speaker 2: The athlete today. Talk to me about this because it's

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Speaker 2: interesting because you are you were on that line of

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Speaker 3: These dudes is different, man, different.

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Speaker 2: Like it's funny that you're smiling because I'm not in

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Speaker 2: I've coached. I coached for a long time, and I've

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Speaker 2: just it's almost like they're movie stars or or rap

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Speaker 4: I mean, a lot of them are movie stars and

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Speaker 4: of some of them are taking pay cuts to go

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Speaker 4: It's it's the the attention of detail is different, the

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Speaker 4: in the right way. These guys a lot more sensitive

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Speaker 3: So it's different. It's it's a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit more about you. You were

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Speaker 3: Workouts were very grueling for track.

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Speaker 4: Especially when I was doing both in college, it was

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Speaker 4: My junior year in college, I finished tenth in the country,

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Speaker 3: For the drug to draft.

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Speaker 2: All right, before I let you go, who what are

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Speaker 2: against a team like the San Francisco forty nine ers

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Speaker 2: look Bosa, he got it, he got his sacks, But

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Speaker 2: it just seems as though teams have been able to

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Speaker 2: Green love they they're nice and and but can they

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Speaker 2: do that against Patrick Mahomes? If they're able to run

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Speaker 4: Offense against the Chiefs the defense front, Yeah, so who's

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Speaker 4: have been dominating time of possession in the playoffs. That's

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Speaker 4: they during the regular season, we did We wasn't too impressed,

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Speaker 4: you know, but you're getting the postseason, Patrick Mahons, Kelsey,

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Speaker 4: Andy Reid. Those guys have been dominating up the ball.

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Speaker 4: They've been dominating the ball, and you got to do

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Speaker 4: that with the guys up front, unique big third and

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Speaker 4: been producing. I think this game comes down to the trenches.

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Speaker 4: It will be a chess battle between Shanahan and and

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Speaker 3: But it's gonna come down to the battle. Uh. I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you can't go against Patrick Mahons, right,

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Speaker 4: I think anytime you do, he burn you. So I'm

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Speaker 4: I'm I'm gonna roll with with Pat Mahomes.

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Speaker 2: It's Tehran Armstad y'all the big dog, but he's a

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Speaker 2: fin up And as you know now we let y'all

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Speaker 2: know that fin's up means that you're a mammal. And

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Speaker 2: if you know about mammals, you know I'm all mammal,

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Speaker 2: the king of the mammals in fact, and I got

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Speaker 2: a dope ass mammal with me right now.

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