

They just go, ‘Well it wasn’t like this last year.’Īnd it is what it is. Q: How much does that tie into having a new coaching staff, led by Nathaniel Hackett?Ī: When you hear people talk, everybody always compares what’s happening now to last year. But I just think from an excitement standpoint and going into a season with this kind of energy, it just feels good to have. I know he’s got his office there and all that stuff, and the guy’s got his people around him. No, he’s put himself right in the middle of all the players, and he’s one of them. We have a quarterback that doesn’t just go to work, puts his pads on, walks out and leaves and then everybody else is doing their own thing. That’s important for the culture of the locker room.

What he’s done this offseason, taking people down to his house, working out and really building that chemistry, that’s important. We know that he’s really, really good at making teammates feel like they’re special. We know from a playing standpoint, he’s one of the best in the game. We know leadership-wise, he’s one of the best in the game. Listen, we’ve seen the man we know what he can do. I think the way it happened was because of this whole experience with CBD, I knew that there was a pathway with the emerging brand - there was an opportunity there, not only from a business standpoint but one of first mover, one of knowing that man if we can do something special, we have an opportunity to really impact other people’s lives.Ī: He’s already brought it. Question: How did you get involved in running a sports energy drink company?Īnswer: If you had asked me this question before this started or told me I would be in the beverage space, I’d have been like, 'Heck, no.' Note: Questions and answers have been lightly edited some for length and clarity. “… That just doesn’t happen without defying a whole lot.”Īfterward, Davis, who now lives in Denver, agreed to a question-and-answer session with the Coloradoan. The name of the beverage company he started, DEFY, “really is based on my career,” he said.
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In 2017, about the time he started studying the anti-inflammatory characteristics and other potential healing benefits of CBD, he was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
