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Let's go out. There's a snack in the backfield, led by Levanté David.

Lawrence goes down for the stack at the 27-yard line.

Nobody flickses as a linebacker better than number 54. Levanti David has made a career out of sacking, tackling, forcing bubbles against the Philadelphia Eagles. It's intercepted, picked off. Levante David answers the bell again.

A new champion and a hell of a leader.

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We always got to cast the vote. Levante, David, do you like watching highlights of yourself or not? I actually do now. I do now. There you go. You know what I was in it? I didn't like to watch my highlights. But now I appreciate watching it. Okay, good. I'm so glad. Levante David here all day today, Jason Gabinda, Isaiah. Stand back, Manseye, myself. Levante, you're, I was making a joke at the top, but it is true. You decide to finish your professional football career, and here you are on TV a couple days later. What's this about? Yeah, man, just something I want to venture out to. You know, I never had a thing that I really wanted to do. I was in the game because I was really focused on the game. on the game, But I got a good team around me and felt like I should do things like this and put myself out there more. Are you generally a sports television viewer? Do you have opinions about people on TV? Yeah, I do. I'm a sports fan. I love watching sports and stuff like that. I grew up watching sports. So I have my opinions and things like that, but some of my opinions be biased. As it should be. They should be. They're your opinion. Vanty, what's your take on Levanté's style? Well, his style is something that not a lot of people could duplicate. I think when he watched LaBonte play, and I've been a big fan of LaVante ever since his college days, Like the Bonser is one of those guys you could stick on an island. You know what I mean? Like he has a will linebacker.

You could stick on an island.

You know what I mean?

Like, he has a will linebacker.

You could go one-on-one with a tied-in, one-on-one with a running-back. And for me, as a mic, I'm like, perfect. Like, I can do the easy job. You know, I would often look to my will linebacker when we're ever in this situation of who's going to cover the running back.

And I would almost tell the will like, it's your man so that I could be freed. to my will linebacker when we're ever in this situation of who's going to cover the running back.

And I would almost tell the will like, it's your man so that I could be free. Whenever you look, do you see 5040 or right? You're like, it's not even a conversation. We already know what he's going to do. It's an honor to be with him. Future Hall of Fame, in my opinion, that highlight tape. We could spend all four hours watching Highlight Table ofvanté and he still would be short. So I'm happy to have him here. A lot of football shows loaded with quarterbacks, not this one. Now we're just loading up on linebackers. The good quarterback change. The defensive quarterbacks. The one thing I've learned about lineback, especially work with Manti, is that, Mani, you like to eat? Oh, we love to eat now. That's an important part of your life. Well, Levanti, we had your head coach on earlier this week, and I asked him, actually, what is one thing that I specifically needed to know before you came on our show today? And here was his answer. Just feed him, and he'll be fine. He't going to turn down no food. I can tell you that much. All right. What do we need in the buffet line back there? I have some tater tops, some bacon and burrito burrito, some fruit. I do need to eat, though, before I get everything started. Yeah, right? I had that in mind when we're in the green room,

we have a conversation, and I see our food that's out there. They take care of us.

And all of us, I'm like, hey, you got some food right there. He said,

that was spot on. Got to make sure the blood sugar is high before we get into draft season because yesterday was Indiana University's Pro Day and as you can imagine, all eyes were on projected number one pick Fernando Mendoza. Our very own, Rhett Lewis, sat down with the star quarterback and asked him what he wanted Raiders minority owner Tom Brady to know about him. about him. If there was one thing that you wanted to make sure that you let a guy like Tom Brady

know about you as a quarterback over this process, what do you think? I would say no matter with all the praise, all the speculation of being a top pick and all that stuff, I'm always going to be the same for Nain. I'm going to be authentic. I'm going to serve my teammates, be a servant leader. I'm going to build equity in whatever team. By equity, first of all, I get to play well. And then second off, by building those relationships with my teammates, by working hard and then also caring about them. And so when I able to do those two things, I'm going to repair like no other. And I believe I'm trying to be the best to me I can possibly become. The best are my teammates. He's prepared for that question for his pro day and for a draft season. He's studying up, Isaiah Standback, exactly, right? He knows what he's doing, bro. What are you all giggling about? He's ready. He knows what he's doing. He's just quirky. He's got that like, he's buttoned up. Yeah, he's got that Tim Tebow-esque type of, you know, just the way he comes across,

the authenticity.

I love it.

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