Brandon Marshall, WR New York Jets, and Larry Fitzgerald, WR Arizona Cardinals

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, which we're dubbing "The Wide Receiver Show," Peter King of The MMQB talks in-depth with two of the best pass-catchers in the NFL: Brandon Marshall of the New York Jets and the Arizona Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald. Marshall, an itinerant player on his fourth team in 11 seasons, talks about some of his regrets that caused him to move so often. Diagnosed with the mental illness Borderline Personality Disorder, Marshall also speak about become a spokesman for mental health issues nationwide. He is particularly revealing when discussing some of the people he wishes he could apologize to in his past--and on the state of race relations in the NFL. Fitzgerald, the league's biggest world traveler, names his favorite places on the planet--and they'll surprise you. He also talks about why he won't play long enough to try to eclipse Jerry Rice's records, and is eloquent on the work he does with a foundation in Minnesota that restores hearing in needy people around the world.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Peter King. Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King, where I take you inside the minds of the biggest influencers in the NFL.
0:12.0	This week, it's the wide receiver. in the NFL.
0:13.1	This week it's the wide receiver show.
0:16.0	We've got Brandon Marshall of the New York Jets and the Arizona Cardinals all-pro receiver
0:21.0	Larry Fitzgerald, two of the best in the business.
0:24.7	Now Brandon Marshall had a well-publicized admission of mental illness borderline personality
0:30.6	disorder and I asked him who he'd like to apologize to for things he did
0:35.8	wrong before he was diagnosed.
0:38.3	I think about this all the time and that's Brian Dawkins.
0:41.4	Brian Dawkins was at the end of his career.
0:43.5	We had a great team, and I didn't do my part
0:45.8	to help him reach that Super Bowl and get that ring.
0:48.8	And I ask Fitzgerald, is there any way
0:51.3	he'll play long enough to break Jerry Rice's hallowed records?
0:55.4	I don't think the record is attainable.
0:57.0	I mean to think you have to play 15 seasons and catch a hundred passes.
1:00.4	I mean like so many things have to go right for you to be able to accomplish
1:04.3	something like that. Those conversations and much more coming up.
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