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Brian Dawkins | Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site

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The Philadelphia Eagles selected Brian Dawkins out of Clemson in the second round, 61st overall, of the 1996 NFL Draft. Over the next 16 seasons, Dawkins exuded excellence on the field as he quickly became one of the most accomplished safeties in the league.

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Once upon a time, before Chukwudi Okafor wanted to slap the you-know-what out of me and before I met my girlfriend at the Eagles' Super Bowl parade, I was known as the Dario Saric Guy. I woke in the wee hours of the morning to watch him play overseas for two years. I sung his praises and foretold his future playoff heroics. Once those moments came last spring, I was elated, but he became a necessary casualty in the franchise-altering Jimmy Butler trade this past fall.

Rookie Landry Shamet appeared to be the newest fan favorite in Philadelphia after Saric's departure. Spearheaded by the @CookieHoops Twitter account and podcast, a truly bizarre, yet absolutely hilarious, meme began that compared Shamet to Waluigi, the arch-nemesis of Luigi in the Super Mario universe. Did it make any sense? Well, maybe their moustaches looked a little alike, but it's only something that could've existed in a post-ironic community deep down in Sixers Twitter. It didn't matter if it made sense, though, when Shamet proved himself to be a sweet-shooting deep threat who was fearless enough to pull up from anywhere on the court against any opponent.

Shamet is now gone, a key piece in the Sixers' massive trade with the Clippers that brought Tobias Harris to Philly. Who will take up the mantle now as Sixers fans' cult hero?

Boban.

Boban Marjanovic, tied for the tallest player in the NBA at 7-foot-3 and the league's heaviest man at 290 pounds, is thicc in every sense of the word. He doesn't fit the Sixers' immediate needs of a backup center in the form of stretching the floor or the ability to defend in space, but he's an elite backup offensive big man who averages 12 free throws per 100 possessions this year (Joel Embiid averages 14.2, just for reference). He's also a competent enough rim protector based on his sheer height and girth alone. I'm in awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit.

If you like playing with meaningless stats in small sample sizes, here's a wild one:

Marjanovic's career Win Shares per 48 minutes number is .267 in 1514 career minutes. That's not a lot of time on the court given that he's a career backup who has averaged 9.3 minutes per game in four seasons. Nevertheless, that mark of .267 is the highest by any player ever in NBA history who's played at least 1500 minutes, per Basketball-Reference. It's a career rate higher than that of Michael Jordan, David Robinson, George Mikan and Wilt Chamberlain, who all round out the top 5.

So, yes, the Sixers essentially acquired the greatest player to ever pick up a basketball (the worst player to ever do so? Anzejs Pasecniks, who the Sixers also hold the rights to).

Marjanovic's basically as good offensively as your one uncle thinks Jahlil Okafor is while also being a guy who is going to get slaughtered in pick-and-roll situations defensively by the likes of Kyrie Irving, Kemba Walker, Kyle Lowry and D'Angelo Russell in the playoffs. I'm not even sure to what degree he'll crack Brett Brown's rotation. It's a wash!

The most important part of Marjanovic being a Sixer, however, has nothing to do with what he provides on the court and everything he does off it.

He's a villain taken straight out of a John Wick movie. No, not in the way lanky, goofy Eastern European players are said to look like villains from high-octane action movies. He's quite literally a villain in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, which comes out in May:

🧐🧐🧐@BobanMarjanovic | #JohnWick3 pic.twitter.com/MdKtwCjawL
- LA Clippers (@LAClippers) January 17, 2019

Just think: You might be able to watch the Sixers win an Eastern Conference Finals game and the very next day go see one of the team's players kick Keanu Reeves in the sternum on the big screen.

Look at this man:

"Alexa, play Ruff Ryders' Anthem by @DMX" pic.twitter.com/18PuySXWEC
- Boban Marjanovic (@BobanMarjanovic) January 18, 2019

Imagine him chanting, "STOP, DROP, SHUT 'EM DOWN, OPEN UP SHOP" in a Serbian accent while circling the Wells Fargo Center concourse. He needs to link up with the Phillie Phanatic and Meek Mill to do an ATV race around the warning track of Citizens Bank Park on Opening Day. He needs to lead the championship parade down Broad Street in that four wheeler while holding a can of Miller Lite that looks comically small in his hand as if he's Andre the Giant. He needs to do everything.

Boban isn't the cult hero Sixers fans always imagined they were getting, but he's the one they need right now and certainly the one they deserve.

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Watch Brian Dawkins unbox his Hall of Fame jacket

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Once upon a time, before Chukwudi Okafor wanted to slap the you-know-what out of me and before I met my girlfriend at the Eagles' Super Bowl parade, I was known as the Dario Saric Guy. I woke in the wee hours of the morning to watch him play overseas for two years.

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Jul 30, 2018

Tim McManusESPN Staff Writer

Editor's note: This is part of a week-long look at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2018, focusing on plays, moments or defining characteristics of the inductees.
Brian Dawkins' ferocious hit on Alge Crumpler during the NFC Championship Game following the 2004 regular season between the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons is legendary in the City of Brotherly Love. Crumpler learned this firsthand when he returned to the scene of the crime several summers ago.

"I went to a football camp in 2014 for [fellow tight end] Anthony Becht in Philadelphia, and a little 10-year-old kid comes up and tells me he remembers that hit," said Crumpler, beginning to laugh. "It happened in [January 2005]. That I'll never forget. I said, 'Your parents have been training you well, young fella.'"

Key details concerning that play have faded from the storytelling over time, including that it resulted in a team-high 31-yard completion for Atlanta. "No one remembers that I held on to the football," Crumpler said. Or that the Falcons scored a touchdown on the very next play.

Isolated and honored is the hit -- a torpedoing, shoulder-to-chest crack that stopped the 260-plus-pound Crumpler in his tracks, sending him hard to the turf late in the second quarter while invigorating an Eagles defense that played at a fever pitch the rest of the way.

The Eagles went on to beat the Falcons 27-10, advancing to the Super Bowl at last, after being turned away in the championship game the three previous seasons. Dawkins' hit on Crumpler is the most celebrated play of that game and is considered one of the defining moments of a now Hall of Fame career.

With Dawkins set to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Aug. 4, we spoke to him, Crumpler and longtime Eagles play-by-play man Merrill Reese about the sequence:

Dawkins: "It was going to be a physical contest. We knew that going into it; we talked about it all week long amongst ourselves. I felt personally disrespected to be honest with you. They were talking too much about how things fell into Atlanta's hands: it was snowing, they were a running team, they were going to run over us ... their defense is better. I kept hearing that over and over again. To me, that's disrespect -- you come into a man's house talking about what you're going to do in his house. It just so happened that Alge was the one that got the brunt of the blow when it comes to the frustration and anger I felt."
Quarterback Donovan McNabb had just engineered a touchdown drive to give the Eagles a 14-3 lead, adding to the urgency as Michael Vick and the Falcons' offense took the field late in the first half. A roughing the passer call on Philly set Atlanta up with a first-and-10 from the Eagles' 41-yard line.
Crumpler: "We were trying to get something going. From what I remember, [the play] was a Sluggo Seam: a slant-and-go on the outside, a seam on my side. I kind of got a late jump off the ball, so the play took a little time to develop. And as Mike pumped the slant-and-go on the outside, I just have to trust that the safety gets moved off the pump. So, as I stand on my landmark and I catch the ball, I think I'm scot-free.

Dawkins: "The hit really shouldn't have happened. ... If I did what I was supposed to do, he wouldn't have thrown it.

"I bit a little bit on the slant, thinking they were going to go slant-and-go over the top [on the opposite side], and that opened that window up for Mike to throw it in there. And once he threw it in there, I was just trying to get myself in position to deliver the biggest hit that I could legally, so that I wouldn't hurt my team but hopefully put some hurt on Alge."

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Reese: "Crumpler was a very, very powerful tight end. It was on the left sideline. And I remember Dawkins coming up at full speed and just crunching him. It was a frightening hit."

Crumpler: "I've never been a part of a play where I'm running full speed and my next step never hits the ground.

"I held on to the ball and immediately went to the sideline. Our team was excited because our team scored the play after, but I didn't see any parts of it because I was trying to recuperate.

"It completely took the wind out of me. Michael Vick, he comes over, he's excited, and I just wanted to get to the sideline so I could catch my breath. All I remember is getting to the sideline, bending over, and a minute later our team is excited, and that kind of rejuvenated me. At least it counted for something."

Dawkins: "It hurt [me, too]. He was probably about 270 at that time. It hurt. If you go back and watch the film, I was wobbly when I hit him. My leg kind of buckled when I hit him because that's a lot of pressure, a lot of force. That's why I always say most defenders have a screw loose, especially linebackers and safeties ... you have to have a screw loose because you know it's going to hurt, but you don't back down, you don't slow down -- you go as hard as you can, you deliver as big of a hit as you can to send a message, every time."

Reese: "Dawkins played with total disregard for the welfare of his body. He would do that time and time again."

Crumpler: "I always had the confidence that I'm a big guy; as long as I'm running full speed, it's going to hurt them as much as it hurt me. And I know it took a lot out of him. Whatever it took out of him, it kind of magnified defensively for his team for the rest of the game, because we couldn't get much going after that."

Dawkins: "During that week, we knew we were going to be physical. They're a physical football team, but we were going to go out to make sure that everybody knew, when the game was over with, that the Philadelphia Eagles, that particular defense, was one to be reckoned with in that game. So it wasn't just me. Hollis [Thomas] had a huge hit on Michael Vick ... Trot [Jeremiah Trotter] had a huge hit on Mike. ... It was a continuation of hits. We wanted to punish, punish, punish as much as possible. That just so happened to be the hit that everybody thinks about as being the hit that set the tone, and I think it did set the tone [in part], but I think the tone was already set. That was just the exclamation point on how this thing is going to be the rest of the game, and everyone fed into it."
After that series, the Falcons were shut out the rest of the way, managing just 64 yards of offense over two-plus quarters. The Eagles were on their way to the Super Bowl.
Dawkins: "For us to finally get over the hump to have a chance to play in the Super Bowl after failing three times at that point to reach that plateau; to see the emotion that spewed out of [head coach] Andy [Reid], that spewed out of [defensive coordinator] Jim Johnson, hugging my neck, crying, 'Dawk, we did it. We did it.' Seeing their families on the field. That was a game that was the most memorable of my career."

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Inside the hit that defined Brian Dawkins' Hall of Fame career

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Jul 30, 2018 Tim McManusESPN Staff Writer Editor's note: This is part of a week-long look at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2018, focusing on plays, moments or defining characteristics of the inductees.

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One of the former American footballer safety is Brian Patrick Dawkins who is famous as Brian Dawkins. He was hired by Eagles in 2016. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on 3 February 2018.

Dawkins's Early Life

Brian Dawkins's real name is Brian Patrick Dawkins. He was born on 13 October 1973 at Jacksonville, Florida, USA. His father name is Ralph Dawkins and mother name is Patricia Dawkins. He attended William M. Raines High School. He also attended Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.

Dawkins's Body Features

Brian Dawkins height is 1.83 m and weight is 95 kg. His eye color is black and hair color is black. He has a balanced and healthy body.

Dawkins's Career

He finished his career with 247 tackles and 11 interceptions. He received first-team All-ACC Honors in 1995.

He was drafted in second round of the 1996 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles. He finished his career starting 182 of 183 games recording 898 tackles, 34 interceptions, 32 forced fumbles, and 26 sacks.

He signed a five-year with the Denver Broncos on 28 February 2009. He was a starter of AFC Pro Bowl team as a strong safety. He was voted into the2012 AFC Pro Bowl Team as the team's starting strong safety.

He joined ESPN as an NFL analyst in 2014.

He was given the new role of Football Operations Executive to assist with player development on 17 August 2016.

He resigned as Football Operations Executive on 22 May 2018.

Dawkins's Personal Life

Brian Dawkins dated Connie Kerrin from high school only. They eloped in 1994 and had the wedding ceremony in July 2009. The couple has four children named as Brian Jr., Brioni, and twins Chonni and Cionni.

Brian Dawkins's net worth is estimated to be $18 million dollars.

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