Welcome back to the exempt list.

We are a couple weeks out from training camp,

but still not a whole lot going on.

Today we're going to be talking to Deontay Lee

of the Ringer and Spotify about defense in the NFL

and defense in rap beef.

Let's get into it.

Welcome to the exemplist part of the Zero Blitz family. I'm your host Charles McDonald's joined by my dear friend

Deonti Lee of the Ringer today, newly of the Ringer.

Deonti, how's it been for you man? And congratulations.

Thank you. Thank you, number one. I mean you know obviously you and I have talked a lot about this process and trying to plot out my future in sports media. So I'm glad I landed softly leaving the athletic and I'm excited man

Obviously the ringers a great spot to be if you are a young growing media

member I swear I'm not gonna do an ad right now for my job I I really do. I've enjoyed my time there so far.

Obviously we have a lot of relationships with the people who work there already so

it's been cool to be with people that you already have some chemistry with for sure.

Yeah, so I'm hoping that you and Stephen Ruiz do more

podcast together. That was really good. I think the space needs more stuff like that. It's June. June 25th is one of

recording this. There's not a whole lot of recording this.

There's not a whole lot of NFL news yet still.

I know it's been a theme of this podcast for like the past month.

But I'm going to throw some headlines at you and I just want you to see if any of these interests you and if not we can move on to what we're actually going to talk about, which is basically the chances for the defensive head coaches that were hired this year to actually have success in year one.

So first, Kansas City Chief Defensive Blindman Isaiah Bugs was released following multiple

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