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Damian Knight

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
330 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

Like, there's no way I finished that quickly and people are struggling with time unless I misinterpreted every single question. And I really think the thing that helped me the most is that I wasn't an attorney. So I didn't read too deeply into every single question.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

Like, there's no way I finished that quickly and people are struggling with time unless I misinterpreted every single question. And I really think the thing that helped me the most is that I wasn't an attorney. So I didn't read too deeply into every single question.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

Like, there's no way I finished that quickly and people are struggling with time unless I misinterpreted every single question. And I really think the thing that helped me the most is that I wasn't an attorney. So I didn't read too deeply into every single question.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

And like, I'm very good at, from my time in the military, they give you a mission and you have to sift through a lot of BS, you know, to find out what you actually have to do as a unit. So it's the same thing I just went through and it may be. a 1000 word question that you're only looking for eight words, you know, and so I'm pretty good at skimming that and finding what I needed.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

And like, I'm very good at, from my time in the military, they give you a mission and you have to sift through a lot of BS, you know, to find out what you actually have to do as a unit. So it's the same thing I just went through and it may be. a 1000 word question that you're only looking for eight words, you know, and so I'm pretty good at skimming that and finding what I needed.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

And like, I'm very good at, from my time in the military, they give you a mission and you have to sift through a lot of BS, you know, to find out what you actually have to do as a unit. So it's the same thing I just went through and it may be. a 1000 word question that you're only looking for eight words, you know, and so I'm pretty good at skimming that and finding what I needed.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

And then yeah, it worked out, man. So you take this test in July, and you don't even find out again, it goes silent until October, whether or not you passed. So I finally got the call in October that I passed and hit the ground running, man, never look back.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

And then yeah, it worked out, man. So you take this test in July, and you don't even find out again, it goes silent until October, whether or not you passed. So I finally got the call in October that I passed and hit the ground running, man, never look back.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

And then yeah, it worked out, man. So you take this test in July, and you don't even find out again, it goes silent until October, whether or not you passed. So I finally got the call in October that I passed and hit the ground running, man, never look back.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

One thing that people probably don't associate with sports agents having to know is the benefits, health benefits that players get. Obviously, you expect us to know money. You expect us to know contract values, that kind of thing, because that's negotiation. But what we also have to know is if a player gets hurt because of an injury, how do you guide them through that process?

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

One thing that people probably don't associate with sports agents having to know is the benefits, health benefits that players get. Obviously, you expect us to know money. You expect us to know contract values, that kind of thing, because that's negotiation. But what we also have to know is if a player gets hurt because of an injury, how do you guide them through that process?

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

One thing that people probably don't associate with sports agents having to know is the benefits, health benefits that players get. Obviously, you expect us to know money. You expect us to know contract values, that kind of thing, because that's negotiation. But what we also have to know is if a player gets hurt because of an injury, how do you guide them through that process?

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

What does their medical recovery look like? It's not always as easy as the player is going to get help by the team. They could get released by the team and need one, two, three opinions, go on workman's comp. Now we have to navigate that state's workman's comp on top of the NFL's processes and so forth.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

What does their medical recovery look like? It's not always as easy as the player is going to get help by the team. They could get released by the team and need one, two, three opinions, go on workman's comp. Now we have to navigate that state's workman's comp on top of the NFL's processes and so forth.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

What does their medical recovery look like? It's not always as easy as the player is going to get help by the team. They could get released by the team and need one, two, three opinions, go on workman's comp. Now we have to navigate that state's workman's comp on top of the NFL's processes and so forth.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

I would say that's one of the things that really gets a lot of people are the benefits that you have to memorize. Like we're over here having to understand like the 401k that the NFL has, you know, the matching that the NFL has, like stuff that will never apply to me and I don't get a percentage on. So why should it matter? Right. But it's so you can educate your player.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

I would say that's one of the things that really gets a lot of people are the benefits that you have to memorize. Like we're over here having to understand like the 401k that the NFL has, you know, the matching that the NFL has, like stuff that will never apply to me and I don't get a percentage on. So why should it matter? Right. But it's so you can educate your player.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

I would say that's one of the things that really gets a lot of people are the benefits that you have to memorize. Like we're over here having to understand like the 401k that the NFL has, you know, the matching that the NFL has, like stuff that will never apply to me and I don't get a percentage on. So why should it matter? Right. But it's so you can educate your player.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

So they're set up for life after the NFL. And I would say that's, that has to be the biggest thing that I did not expect. They gave me 40 pages on, Hey, these are the benefits the NFL gives you. And I'm like, Oh, wow.

Mick Unplugged
Transitioning from Military Precision to Sports Agency with Damian Knight

So they're set up for life after the NFL. And I would say that's, that has to be the biggest thing that I did not expect. They gave me 40 pages on, Hey, these are the benefits the NFL gives you. And I'm like, Oh, wow.