Ali Marpet: trading dollars for a doctorate, guarding Tom Brady, climbing Kilimanjaro

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On the latest episode of the NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, Peanut and Roman are joined by former Tampa Bay Buccaneers guard Ali Marpet. At 28 years old Ali shocked the NFL world when he announced his retirement. He was a year removed from winning a Super Bowl ring, he had just made his first Pro Bowl, and he was three years into a contract extension that was set to pay him $55 million. Yet, Ali was clear-eyed when decided to walk away. In a penetrating conversation, Ali tells Peanut and Roman the journey to reaching his decision to leave the NFL, how he’s still grieving his career, and how he’s turned his full attention to education in the pursuit of a doctorate degree. After listening, you’ll come away with an understanding that Ali was destined to have an impact that went far beyond the game of football.

1:23 – Ali on going from a Division III program to the NFL

5:46 – Ali on his weight loss journey since retiring from the NFL

8:36 – Ali on climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro

13:43 – Ali on walking away from $20M with NFL retirement

21:20 – Ali talks about how his family received the news that he would retire from the NFL

22:52 – Ali talks about getting his grub on for his 30th birthday

23:32 – Ali talks about his favorite travel destinations
25:27 – Roman shares his bucket list travel destination

26:33 – Ali talks about his path he’s on to get his doctorate in psychology

31:45 – Peanut and Ali talk about how their channel failure into motivation

35:23 – Ali talks about how his football experience will serve him as a psychologist

36:20 – Ali, Peanut and Roman share how they’ve managed their transitions from the NFL, and advice they have for young players

44:05 – Ali shares his welcome to the NFL moment

45:39 – Ali tells his best Tom Brady and Gronk stories

48:35 – Ali and Peanut bond over their Jewish heritage and whether they’ll have a Bar Mitzvah

50:25 – Ali gives his top 5 travel destinations

52:54 – Ali shares who is on his personal Mount Rushmore

54:42 -Ali talks being the standard at his college, and why he thinks he didn’t get a Division I football scholarship

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.5	What's up, everybody?
0:05.6	This is Spice Adams, and you're listening to the NFL players' second acts podcast.
0:11.1	Yeah, baby.
0:42.2	Yeah. Welcome back. Thank you for tuning in to the NFL player second axe podcast. It's been a minute, but we back. I'm Peanut, and I got my uncle with me as always. Mr. Roman Harmon. What's up? What Roman what's happening you good I was not ready for the drum roll or whatever you call that at the beginning that's not the normal introduction it's not how that's not how
0:46.4	it actually works I will not say your name because I don't want to give away who our
0:49.5	guest is but just know that it's a different opening every single time we come on here.
0:55.9	So I never know what's going to happen.
0:57.8	It comes out of this guy's mouth.
0:59.1	I don't know as well.
1:00.3	All right, before we get all of that, I want to thank all of our listeners for always tuning in.
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1:15.0	Let's continue to push it on forward.
1:16.9	Peanut, who is our guest today?
1:18.5	Today we got an oldie but a goodie.
1:21.1	This gentleman played seven years for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
1:26.7	He was drafted in the second round by Lovie Smith, one of my
1:30.6	former coaches. He's a Super Bowl winning champion. He's an all pro guard. Ladies and gentlemen,
1:36.9	please welcome Allie Marpet. What's going on, boss? I appreciate you. Thank you.
1:42.3	Hold on. All right now, before you even go into it, All right, we got to address the elephant in the room.
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