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Learn more at Liquiddeath.com. Insider. Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and along with me

E-SPN's Kevin Seifert and I got to tell you the truth Kevin when the other night with De Mar Hamlin happened I thought of one person who could give the best possible insight about this situation because these types of matters though we've never seen anything like this, have been your beat for a long time before you return to our little humble media room in the TCO Performance Center, but you know I I guess I just want to start this with your

prevailing feelings about everything that happened. I mean even waking up here

today on Wednesday I still felt a little shook by it we just talked to Patrick Jones and Harrison Phillips and you could really still see the emotion for those two guys.

Patrick Jones played with him in Pittsburgh

and Harrison Phillips knew him well in Buffalo.

And Harrison Phillips was talking about

how it's just hard to keep your mind on watching your regular Tuesday film and you know I think this is something that is really

Shaken the entire league not just people who knew him but everybody involved whether it's

reporters fans or players inside the locker room coaches everybody through the

NFL yeah I have had kind of just a pit in my stomach really ever since then.

And on my, for me, it was bringing back so many of the details and feelings of when we covered Corey Stringer's passing in, you know,

21 years ago almost. It was it's not exactly the same situation and obviously the outcome.

We're all hoping doesn't become the same thing.

But the idea that you can go out on a football field or a football practice field or a game field and

you know certainly leaving on a stretcher is something that we're all unfortunately accustomed to but going on a

practice field or going on a game field and dying as Corey Stringer eventually did and as DeMar Hamlin did before he was resuscitated is something that I think another generation of people and players and coaches and

fans and media members are finding out is a real thing.

And I remember reporting the 20th anniversary of Stringer's death

last summer and talking to Matt Burke, who was the center

on that

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