Demario Davis - New Orleans Saints All-Pro Linebacker
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🗓️ 10 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
BONUS EPISODE
Demario Davis is a linebacker with the New Orleans Saints. He was selected in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft by the New York Jets, where he played from 2012-2015 and again in 2017. During the 2016 season, he played with the Cleveland Browns.
In 2018, Demario signed a free agent deal with the Saints and in 2019, was named to the AP All-Pro First Team despite not making the Pro Bowl. Early in the 2019 season, Davis was fined for wearing a “Man of God” headband. But after the NFL rescinded the fine, he was able to make the headbands available to the public and raise money for St. Dominic Hospital in his home state of Mississippi.
In October 2019, he became a published author, releasing his first book, “The Unsuccessful Champion: Finding True Victory in the Midst of Adversity.”
On this episode of the podcast, Demario looks back at the 2019 season, what he learned from God, being an unsuccessful champion and finding joy and peace in Jesus when things don't go his way on the field.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.9 | Hey, everyone, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm Jason Romano. |
| 0:23.2 | We're so glad that you're tuning in and joining us here on the program today. |
| 0:28.0 | And I'm really excited to bring to you a conversation with DeMario Davis. |
| 0:32.8 | DeMario is the inside linebacker for the New Orleans Saints, number 56. |
| 0:38.8 | And he came into the NFL in 2012, selected in the third round, |
| 0:42.9 | 77th overall out of Arkansas State by the New York Jets. |
| 0:48.3 | And he played four seasons with the Jets from 2012 to 2015. |
| 0:53.3 | And then moved to Cleveland in 2016, came back to the Jets in 2017, |
| 0:58.0 | and had a really good year, and then signed with the New Orleans Saints in 2018, and for the last |
| 1:04.5 | two seasons in New Orleans, he has been a staple, a mainstay on that Saints defense that has made the playoffs twice, back-to-back |
| 1:13.9 | years being in the playoffs. And in 2018, they were probably the best team in the NFC, but lost |
| 1:21.1 | at the very end to the Los Angeles Rams before going into the Super Bowl and that NFC championship |
| 1:27.3 | game that went to overtime and had |
| 1:30.0 | a lot of controversy. And we talk about that loss with DeMario and moving on and just kind of dealing |
| 1:35.5 | with difficult situations on the field and keeping that joy in the Lord off the field. This past |
| 1:43.0 | season in 2019, DeMario dominated. He had a great season. He didn't |
| 1:48.4 | make the Pro Bowl, weirdly enough, but he was named First Team All-Pro at linebacker. That's very |
| 1:55.4 | rare. If you're a first-team all-pro linebacker, you're pretty much guaranteed to make the Pro Bowl. DeMario talks about |
| 2:02.1 | that as well. It's a very odd situation, but listen, there's no denying his impact on the Saints |
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