🏈 Will the Chiefs Become the Greatest Dynasty? Plus Marquise Williams & Super Bowl Talk!🎉🔥

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Pick'em Pros, pick'em Pros, pick'em Pros, pick'em Pros, pick'em Pros, pick'em Pros, pick'em Pros, pick'em Pros, pick'em Pros, pick'em Pros.

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Alright, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.

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You know who it is, I am Derrick.

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Thompson, I'm Diego Thompson, and who are we?

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The Pick'em?

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Pros.

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We are the Pick'em Pros back in the house, coming at you with a special episode of who you Got, father-son Dynamic Duo, episode 125, three-year anniversary of Pick'em Pros.

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Yes, no games here, no games, man.

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Big big night.

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Thank you everybody for coming.

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Ma'am, big big night.

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Thank you everybody for coming out.

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This is so, so special, sold out, sold out way in advance.

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And we're standing room.

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We're beyond standing room, beyond standing room, beyond standing room.

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So, thank you, much love to everyone.

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Thank you for everybody that made this possible.

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Man, I'm not even going to be able to remember everybody, but just thank you All the camera crew behind the scenes.

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Big shout out to my wife for the idea of Pick'em Pros.

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Big shout out to her.

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Would not be here without her.

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Man, summer, with all the social media, all that you do, man, just the whole team.

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Tnt Creative Group, michael Sims, aaron Griffin behind the camera we got Justin behind the camera Powering through and many, many all-out volunteers working the door Jamila, bernice, everybody, everybody I know I'm forgetting somebody, everybody.

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Thank you All.

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Right, man, we got a packed show.

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We are star-studded here tonight.

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North Carolina's finest is in the building and also beyond North Carolina, we have people.

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Man running up the frequent flyer air miles.

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We have Arizona in the building, man, we got, you know, we got Detroit in the house, detroit's in the building always, and we got Pittsburgh, pa, in the building.

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But let me stop for one second, man.

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How you doing, bro?

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Doing good, doing good, alright, alright.

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So, diego man, this is your moment, this is your time, you know, for Super Bowl.

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You are currently undefeated with Super Bowl picks.

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Yep.

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So everybody's going to witness history here tonight because he's going to lose.

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I don't know about that.

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I don't know about that.

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You're going to lose tonight.

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You're going to lose.

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You're going to learn today, all right, so you can already tell what side of the fence we're on what's your record.

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Just let the people know, like, what's your record?

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man, that's not important, you know, not important.

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I'm the host of the show.

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Look, I'm like LeBron James.

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Okay, I'm a father.

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Have you won one time?

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I, I'm a husband, all right, good person, you know, haven't gotten in trouble, you know.

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I mean, I'm just going to lean on that.

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I'm going to go to the LeBron James route, all right.

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But hey, I'm going to get a win today.

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Let me get a win today, man, all right.

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Well, let me tell you about our show rundown and then we're going to get into the show here.

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But we've got our first guest a little later on is going to be Mr Marquise Williams, former QB of UNC.

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He's going to be joining us a little later.

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All right, excited about that.

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We've got, we've got our high school rising star, mr Number 23,.

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Justice Mitchell from Clayton High School is in the building.

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Yes, he's in the building.

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We've got man, we've got.

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Oh my gosh, we have have.

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Y'all heard of the hit smash over and over on the radio Heart of a Woman by Summer Walker?

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Heard that?

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We've got the producer, mr Tavares Jordan, in the building behind that, yes, yes.

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And then we have Mr Chuck Global coming in from Pittsburgh, pa.

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He blessed us with the song Pick'em Pros.

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He is in the building and Tavares was on the beat.

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So, man, just a great, great show.

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And Pick'em Pros is expanded, right.

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So we now have an NBA and NFL expert who will be joining us in a minute.

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Uh, his name is christopher williams.

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You've seen him many times.

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He'll be on with us, all right.

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And then we also have, all right, we've got brianna from arizona joining us, who is our she's our pick and pros correspondent, so we can't wait to have her on.

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All right, so it's gonna be great, all right, well, correspondent, so we can't wait to have her on.

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All right, so it's gonna be great, all right.

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Well, diego man.

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First, before we get into Chris and bring him on, let's talk about Patrick Mahomes, all right?

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So I see you've got all the gear on.

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You know, you've got the Super Bowl hat, which is kind of weird because the Kansas City Chiefs are not your team all right.

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I mean, I gotta it was one of my wins, so I gotta, you know, celebrate a win.

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Ok, that's what it represents, ok.

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But I think it's a rule that you can only buy the championship gear if that's your team.

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I think.

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I think that's a rule.

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That's in the rule book.

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No, that's not in the rule book.

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OK, that's not in the rule book, all right.

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Ok, all right.

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So if you get the pick right, you can get it All.

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Well, tell us, before we bring Chris on man, what's your take on Patrick Mahomes.

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If he wins this game, if he wins this Super Bowl, does that solidify him as the GOAT?

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I think he's already the GOAT with what he's done right now, but I think a third Super Bowl in a row would just solidify it.

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It would just solidify it with all that he's done, the different teams he's taken to Super Bowls, all the accomplishments.

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Yeah, I think that will solidify him as a GOAT.

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Okay.

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You think that will solidify him?

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All right, yeah, man, you know what I actually agree with you.

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I agree, man.

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What he's done has been phenomenal.

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I know many people look at Tom Brady's seven Super Bowls, which is phenomenal, but again, he was not the main guy for the first three Super Bowls, they were more of a defensive team.

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He was not the main guy.

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Patrick Mahomes they don't have Patrick Mahomes.

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They don't win any of these Super Bowls and if he becomes the first to win three in a row, I think that gives him a very strong case.

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But we have some others on the panel that will disagree with that.

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So we'll talk about that and go back and forth.

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All right, well, let's go ahead and bring our first special guest.

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Y'all ready for the first guest, all right?

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Oh man, it's going to be fun.

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It's going to be fun because we're going to talk about a lot of fun things with this guy.

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We're going to talk about his Mr Lamar Jackson.

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He's the Lamar Jackson apologist.

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Put your hands together for no one other than Christopher Davis.

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What's going on, my man?

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All right, Chris, chris C Payne, that's right, aka C Payne, which that name is so pretty.

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You know, my wife coined that for you.

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Oh, I know, I definitely appreciate it for her.

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It's fire, it's fire.

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Yes, that is fire.

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That's fire, my man.

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Well, welcome to the show, man.

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So hey, let's just get right on into it.

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Chris Lamar Jackson, we all thought he was going to win MVP.

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You were rooting for him all year long to win MVP, although we told you, hey, you shouldn't worry about that, he needs to get another chip before he wins Zuba, although I was saying all along Josh Allen was the MVP and he would win that.

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But that's okay.

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I don't even know why I brought that up.

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I'm saying that too, man.

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You were?

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Yeah, I was.

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I don't seem to remember that.

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Okay, I don't seem to remember that.

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But anyway, Chris man, what's your?

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take on Lamar Jackson not winning the MVP.

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I mean, it is what it is.

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At this point I need him to be on a scorched earth tour, because no accolades for an all-time great quarterback season is crazy.

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I mean 4,000 passing yards, 900 rushing guards, first quarterback in history to ever do that.

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Also, you know, 40 touchdowns, less than five interceptions, all that stuff right, and he doesn't win MVP.

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Now again, bad taste in everybody's mouth with the playoff performance and Mark Andrews also having a horrible game.

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Lamar had a horrible first half as well.

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So I think I don't know how that factor did, but I find it funny how you can be first team, all pro, and then you suddenly don't win MVP.

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This is the first quarterback since the 80s for that to happen.

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That's kind of crazy.

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But you know, shout out to Josh Allen.

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He did have a great year, an amazing year.

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I feel like my Lamar bias shine shows too much, because it really was a good year for Josh.

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I'm not because I called him a turnover machine, all that and this year he really performed.

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So you know what I'm bowing out.

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Lamar, he scores first next season.

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Let's worry about that.

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Super Bowl MVP next year.

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Man, he scores first next season.

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Let's worry about that.

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Super Bowl MVP next year.

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Man, okay, yeah, yeah.

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So, diego, what's your take on that?

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So last year the argument was that Lamar, it wasn't about the stats, but now he has the best stats and everybody's complaining that he doesn't win.

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So that's just really the only thing.

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And Josh Allen, I mean he had the better regular season, just like team-wise, and just had all the big wins beat Kansas City, beat Detroit and, yeah, beat Lamar in the playoffs too.

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So yeah, I mean, are any of them playing on Sunday though?

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Who's playing on Sunday, josh?

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made it farther.

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Yeah, Josh made it farther and Josh played spectacularly in the playoffs.

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So yet again he lost, better Got it.

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Yes, he lost better.

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That's just all I wanted to know.

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He lost better.

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Again, lamar, you know he's losing, so you know we don't got a leg to stand on there, but you know childhood Joshua, is England losing better.

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Yeah, we'll see how next year goes.

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All right, all right, okay, man.

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Well, you know, we here at picking pros, like I said, have been growing and we've been fortunate to have an insider who is able to meet professional athletes, so we are so blessed to have Ms Brianna here on the team.

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She's been interviewing people, so we're going to have her join the panel, tell us a little bit about some of the folks that she's interviewing for us, and we're going to talk a little bit of Kansas City Chiefs and the refs with her.

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So put your hands together for Brianna.

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All right, brianna, what's going on?

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Not much.

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It's really cold down here.

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Well compared to Arizona.

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Yes, yes, definitely.

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I miss the heat already.

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Compared to Arizona.

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Now, the people from other areas would not agree.

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But yes, it is.

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You know, we have four seasons.

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Yeah, you're really lucky for that.

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All right, well, welcome.

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Thank you for having me.

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I feel really blessed to be here.

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Yes, great to have you.

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Thanks for making the trip all the way from Arizona.

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So tell us about your new role and some of the interviews that you have lined up.

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Yeah, so right now I'm a correspondent for the Pick'em Pros.

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Yeah, so lately I did an interview for an MLB pitcher, luke Little.

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He plays for the Cubs and that package will be done after spring training.

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I have to get all the B-roll for that.

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And I recently did one on Nick Chaston.

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He's a Muay Thai boxer, nine-time champion, so that will be done next week.

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So that's really exciting and I have a lot of other interviews lined up.

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Fantastic.

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Yeah, that's great.

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That's great.

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We appreciate that.

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That just takes us to a whole new level and your ability to you know, get these interviews and do such a phenomenal job with them is just expanding our brand.

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So we appreciate that have you here.

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We know that you had some posts where you were pretty upset about the Kansas City Chiefs and the refs and the homes and all of that.

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So you know we're not getting into our picks just yet, but what's your take on the refs and the chiefs?

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Okay, the refs really help out the chiefs and it's really annoying.

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I say this in almost every single post I have on my Instagram.

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I'll never get old or tired of talking about it at all but they really help the Chiefs.

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When they played the Bills, there was a whole face mask and they didn't call it and that would have made the Bills get a touchdown.

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So when they don't call certain plays, when it helps out the Chiefs, when it helps out the Chiefs, you know it gets really annoying, because the Bills should have beat the Chiefs and that's the end of the story and they should have been at the Super Bowl and said the Chiefs are, which is annoying.

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So that's the first.

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So cameraman Aaron behind the scene.

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He is a Kansas City Chiefs fan.

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I'm not even going to mess with him.

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If you really want to get him mad, tell him he's a bandwagon fan.

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Bandwagon.

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And then he'll tell you he's been a fan since 94, and then he'll start naming random people that you've never heard of.

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Oh man, but all in good fun.

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Well, it is going to be fun.

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We can't wait for this Super Bowl and we're going to be watching, and we can't wait to see who you pick.

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So it's kind of clear who some people are picking on the panel, but we'll find out who the rest are picking.

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Yeah, we'll see.

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We'll see.

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All right, can't wait to see, all right.

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Well, I believe Marquise Williams is in the building, so we're going to have him on in a second.

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So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be back in 30 seconds.

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All right, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, jordan.

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We'll try a ball talk, a bigger role.

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We're going to up the score.

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Touchdown.

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This is not field goal.

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We, the winning team champions.

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When you walk through the halls, you can play your bet with us, because you know we're going to win them all.

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Yeah, all right, welcome back.

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Yeah.

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So we told y'all, we told y'all we've got North Carolina's finest in the building man, best of the best, so excited for tonight, all right.

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So, diego man, why don't you tell everybody who our next guest is?

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Man.

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Our next guest is former UNC quarterback, marquise Williams.

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All right, put your hands together for him.

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Come on, come on.

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Oh, man, my God, thank you so much for being here.

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Appreciate you having me.

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Yes, great to have you man.

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So, man, we met about a year and a half, two years ago or whatnot and, man, you were so gracious with your time and we appreciate that.

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We've been excited to be able to have you on and I know that you know you being, you know UNC legend and whatnot.

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You know the team wants you to come and pump up the team and whatnot, which is great, and you know we got a chance to tailgate with you out there before and that was a great experience.

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So we appreciate that.

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I appreciate you guys for having me, man.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.

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Well, diego, you want to kick off our first question.

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Oh yeah, so you had an incredible career at UNC.

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What was your favorite moment from that?

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I would say beating up on the Duke Blue Devils.

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I want to say it was like our last home game.

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We were 7-0.

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We had a chance to be the first team ever in Carolina history to go 8-0 at home.

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And, man, we came out with a flea flick at the first play and we set the tempo.

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So you know, I know you're a Duke fan, so you know I had to put a spank into them.

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So that was my first game.

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You're going to start the interview like that man?

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Yeah, not basketball, but football.

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Oh man, great question, great question.

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So, marquise, how has your time at UNC prepared you for life beyond football?

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Man.

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It's just shown me a lot, taught me a lot, but I think the way I am as a leader showed me the adversity of life, everything you got to go through man being an adult.

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My dad always said it's hard and it's hard, but that's the blessing in this life.

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You know, sometimes you live and learn, and I just been leading a team being able to like overcome every adversity I've been through in my life.

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I think that's what changed me and made me the better person I am today.

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Wow, that's great.

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That's great.

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Yeah, that's a testament.

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Testament to the school.

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Yeah, absolutely, and to you as well.

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All right, you got the next one.

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Diego, who did you model your game after as a quarterback?

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Man, I was a big, big Vince Young fan growing up.

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Oh man, it was incredible to watch him.

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I actually wore number 10 in middle school.

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I played at JMF in Charlotte so that was like the biggest thing and I wanted to be like Vince Young and it was the greatest thing.

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I got to be like Vince Young and and I it was the greatest thing I got to play with him in the CFL.

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I actually took his spot.

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He got cut so I always held it over his head that he's my idol.

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But I had to send him home.

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But man, we talk about it and laugh about the same thing, but Vince Young is one of the greatest guys that I you know I'm out of my game man he was.

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He was one of the heck of a players man oh yeah, yeah, I've got one actually before you, next with Diego.

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So how would Vince Young be in today's NFL?

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I think he'd be one of the best.

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I mean, the league is becoming more of a do-or-threat game to me.

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I feel like there's a lot of running and gunning.

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To be successful, you've got to have a mobile quarterback.

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That's right.

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You look in a Super Bowl now and there's two mobile quarterbacks.

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You know, in the division rounds there was Josh Allen Lamar.

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Those guys make plays with their legs not only with their arm, but their legs too.

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Absolutely yeah, one of my favorites, for sure.

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What's your next one, diego?

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How did you feel after your record-setting performance against Duke?

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It was incredible, man.

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It was one of the biggest games ever.

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It was incredible, man.

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It was one of the biggest games ever.

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I think I set the record with the most touchdowns in Carolina history.

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That game.

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I'm sorry, man.

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I'm glad you asked these questions, but, man, it was a great time for us.

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Man, it was a thing that the cross-robbled eight miles apart and they wanted to come in and it was big bad tails that day and we showed them who the real blue is.

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And I'm sorry I said it again, but we the real blue baby.

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All right.

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So, marquise, what are some of the biggest challenges?

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Transitioning from college football to professional?

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I mean, honestly, the speed of the game is crazy.

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I mean, these guys, you have guys that's 6'4", 6'5", 6'6" running 4-4s, 4-3s.

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Everybody's much stronger than you, faster than you.

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But the biggest challenge for me is you know that playbook.

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I'm not going to act like it was easy, dude, it was like learning a new language.

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Yeah, I mean, you know, I had to spit it back to the players and everybody got to know what everybody's doing exactly.

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But I would say, man, learning the playbook and knowing the ins and outs or why we're calling this play, knowing defensive fronts, three downs or four downs and bare fronts, I mean it was challenging but it was also a fun time to do it.

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Yeah, yeah, I bet, I bet, yeah.

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How long is a typical play in the pros?

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I'll give you an example, let's go strong right.

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Z short, z short.

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77 to X dagger F flag.

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Uh Z ain't.

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So it's kind of healthy man, that's one of the shorter ones, wow, wow.

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So who are your favorite players in the league today?

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Uh, of course, man, I'm gonna go with Lamar Jackson.

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Um, you know, he's a, he's a goddess, doesn't get much credit because he doesn't win the big games, but man, for him to get to those MVPs and things he's doing, he's one of the best.

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I also give it to Josh Allen.

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Man, that's a guy that I like too.

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So Lamar is my guy, and then Josh Allen, and I like Joe Burrow too because he plays with a lot of swag.

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Man, he does.

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Yeah, he does for sure.

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So what's your thoughts on Bill Belichick?

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Man, I'm excited man.

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It seems like he's bringing in all the suns on the staff.

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I'm excited to see how it translates from the pros into college.

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I think it's a different game.

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You got 18-year-olds man that really care about a dollar these days, right.

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18-year-olds man that really care about a dollar these days, right.

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With guys like me, it's all about winning.

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You know it's now you have to.

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How is he going to translate that from you know, trying to be in D man to like?

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You know, basically, you have to kiss tail these days, right, honestly, to get players what you want.

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That's true, and that's the change of the game, man, so I'm excited to see how well he does with it.

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I hope you know I win the record for us.

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That's all I can pray, man, because you know it's been a struggle for us since 2015, my last year, so I'm hoping things can get back rolling for us at Chapel Hill.

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Okay, okay.

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So how would you rank your all-time UNCQBs?

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I don't know if you want to do top three, top five.

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I'll leave that up to you.

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Oh well, you know I'm always a humble guy, so I would go Sam Howell.

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Okay, I always thought Sam Howell was very special.

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Drake man, then myself, those guys, man, those guys had a different talent and that's just humbly speaking man.

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Those guys were very, very different and they went out and showed it every Saturday and a lot of people would definitely put me number one, but I'll put Sam Drake and then myself.

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All right, I do have 11 wins and they never got that.

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So I'm going to give myself that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.

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Yes, yes, make some noise for that Marquis, who's the best player you ever played against.

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Best player I ever played against against, I would have to say Deshaun Watson.

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He was different.

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I mean he played quarterback, but I mean the way he managed the game.

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I mean he was only a freshman or redshirt freshman playing in the AC Championship and he was incredible.

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I think he set the AC record for like 490 yards.

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But the way he managed it, the way he made it slow down and I was a senior looking over at this guy like man, this guy got like two more years and he's gonna be the real deal.

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He ended up being the real deal, you know he has some adversity he's going through right now, but I think that's what's going to challenge him.

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To get back to that deshaun washington, that number four that everybody always know.

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Yeah, so I would give it to sean washington man.

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He was, he was a special, he was a special guy and he's still playing, but he's a special guy.

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That's right.

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Okay.

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What advice would you give to young quarterbacks trying to lead their team to wins and success?

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Never get down to yourself.

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It's funny that one of my quarterbacks here I trained man.

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His name is Levin.

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He had a rough day the other day and I was like Levin man as a quarterback.

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You can never get down to yourself, because once you lose confidence in yourself, who's going to put the confidence back in yourself?

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And that's the biggest thing, man leading your team, doing the right things.

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Man, the biggest thing is doing the right thing is always knowing the adversity is coming, but how are you going to overcome the adversity?

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A lot of people say at the University of North Carolina when adversity hits me, I always smile and everybody says today I'm smiling, I'm going to smile, smile, smile.

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That's the biggest thing in this world, man.

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When you get hit in the face, get back up and smile and say, okay, I'm going to take another chance, but I'm going to get the next one.

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So it's always about leading by example and always believing in yourself number one, and taking it day by day, brother.

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I love that.

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I love that.

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Taking it day by day, brother, I love that.

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That's great advice.

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Well, we have one more question for you and then we have some audience questions that we'll get into in a minute here.

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So everybody's excited to have you here.

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Thank you again.

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So, with NIL deals in play, how do you think that has changed the landscape of college football today?

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I love it, but then again I'm not a fan of it.

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I think soon it's going to be a professional thing and you know I feel like the ACC is going to get wiped away because how much money Texas A&M, Texas, Ohio State, these guys are bringing in.

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You know a lot of people think that Carolina has a lot of NIL money when we don't Right, we don't, and that's shocking to a lot of folks.

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But like it's, it's gonna be challenging, man, because I mean you look at the sec now, I mean missouri is a basketball school.

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When, when?

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did they become a basketball right football school.

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Money talks man.

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So these guys in sec are killing us at nil, making the acc look like we don't belong nowhere, no more.

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