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It is Monday, September 4th, 2020.

Welcome to a special edition of the NFL fantasy football podcast, where we are laboring for you even on Labor Day. It's me, your man, M.G. Marcus brand, joined by Michael F. Florio. Short show today, Florio, we just have, we just have one special guest and that's it. One very fun guest that I'm very excited to talk to, near and dear to my favorite team's hearts so you know i'm excited

absolutely so we'll get to that and uh you know otherwise it's a labor day weekend it is a holiday

weekend i'm sure a lot of you out there have been doing drafts hopefully you're enjoying time with

your family but we also appreciate you taking a little bit of time out of your day to uh join us

and listen to us talk a little bit of fantasy football.

Join now by a very special guest.

He was a seventh round pick out of the University of Kentucky back in 2008.

Played eight NFL seasons, including six with the Buffalo Bills,

three years with 1,000 receiving yards.

It is Stevie Johnson. Florio, I know you were excited. One of your great Bills wide receivers is here. You got to be fired up about it. Oh, yeah. Stevie knows, but he was my favorite player growing up. So it's just to get to talk to him and stuff is an honor. The 13 and Fitzpatrick was, they were a very fun combination. It's a Stevie, man. Appreciate the time, man. How are you nowadays? Yeah, I'm good, man. I'm living out here in San Diego. Yeah, man, me and Mike, we go back, you know, in the days where things was, things that we see now was new. You know, it was somewhat new, especially in a Buffalo area. So it was a classic time, but we're definitely in greater times now.

So you were a guy, you were a late round pick, but you ended up having a very good career, as I mentioned, eight NFL seasons.

When you see guys now who are getting drafted late or going undrafted and signing as free agents,

what sort of advice do you have for those kind of players?

Believing in themselves, believing their skills, because the rounds really don't matter as far as skill and talent go and heart and, you know, having a passion to be whatever you want to be on that team,

you know, given a situation, you know, when it comes to thinking about money, you know,

that you got to clear your mind and understand that that'll come. If you work hard and you

handle your business, the money will come. So, you know, don't cloud your mind with the money

because it's easy, you know, don't cloud your mind with the money because it's easy,

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