A Note of Motivation - "Life of Deam"

Just want to thank God for all of our success...

I don't have much to say.  This is a note from one of my role models Lesley Deamer.  He played football at Northwestern State University in Louisiana.  He just finished up with his first workout with the New Orleans Saints.  And I asked him to give some motivation to our followers...

"For one it's a blessing to make it as far as I have being from where I'm from. Not many people make it out of the small town of Amite, Louisiana. I'm going to tell you a little about me.  Why I grind. Josh asked me to come from the heart, so I'll share some stuff with yall that I don't even mention to my family. 

Where do I start? Man I've pretty much been the underdog or slept on all of my life. The phrases "too small" and "too slow" followed me through my freshman and sophomore year of HS. I never gave up though. And to this day, I just stuck with it because of my love for the game of football. I didn't let that stop me. By my junior year I didn't have any offers, or college interest. I hadn't touched the field.  Summer of my junior year something clicked in me though.  It's something about a person not believing in me that just ignites my hunger. It took two years for it to click but my junior I saw my first varsity play in the 3rd game of the season. I started every single game after that and ended my career with 1st team All-District awards my junior and senior year.  

My motivation came from my family and my environment..Watching my mom work the way she did to pay the bills and take care of me pushed me to get where I am now. I'll never forget the year our house burned down and we had to live in a motel for almost a year. Sometimes, I would barely see her because of the way she worked. She would tell me good morning and I wouldn't see her until the night long after I got home from school. I remember it like it was yesterday. Combine that feeling of anxiety with being slept on throughout high school. After overcoming all that adversity,nothing can get the best of me because I've been through a lot. I've learned how to turn situations as those into motivation....

It was the same way in college..redshirt my first year..barely play the next, it would have been easy for me to give up or cause problems with my coaches but I thought. Where was I going to go? Back to the hood and tell my mom I gave it up? When she was working hard and never gave up on me?  It comes a time when you don't have anybody but yourself. You have to dig deep and find it within yourself to be better, strive for more, be the best. The top spot isn't given.  The champion looses his belt because he is beaten by the challenger.  True champions are strong because once they walked alone.  When nobody believed in them, their goals, dreams. 

After that click went off again, I turned my situation around. 3 year starter, 3x all conference, numerous team voted awards, team captain elections, and managed to graduated from college with a chance to play in the NFL. So when I didn't get drafted or anything I just thought back to all the times I didn't give up when I had to hold back tears about how hard my mom worked. Not getting drafted put me in a familiar place. My zone.  At the bottom, adversity. I'm not afraid of going to get something that I feel I deserve.  It's not where you start because you don't have any control over that but how you handle it and how you finish...got a dream? Chase it until you can't anymore and when you can't chase it anymore, think of why you started chasing that dream.  Put yourself back in that familiar mindset. All I have to do is remember my mom and I'm instantly reminded of my past.  I can't stop. I've come too far. I think you should grind with me.



Stay Young Stay Foolish ~ Steve Jobs

- Deam"


He was not kept for this OTA season but will most likely get a call during the first couple weeks of the official season as rosters are more solidified.  He will now be put in a position to prove himself all over again once he get's this call up.  I think he is the man for the job.  This will take him back to the "zone" and I believe that he will come out of this situation on top. Wherever God takes him.  

- Janesh