Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers and Ian O'Connor, author of "Belichick,'' the new book on New England coach Bill Belichick.

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Rivers, who became the fourth quarterback ever to start 200 NFL games on Sunday, on the secret to his staying power, on the influence of his high-school-coach father on his life and his football career, on how he's been able to stay sane with the 80-mile daily commute between his San Diego home and his Orange County Charger workplace, and on the chances of the Chargers finally beating the Chiefs in the AFC West. O'Connor on how he was able to write a substantive biography on the note Patriots coach without ever speaking to Belichick, on the most interesting things he found out that the world doesn't know about Belichick, on how much longer he thinks Belichick will coach the Patriots, and on what he learned from talking to 300 of the closest people in the world to Belichick.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I'll tell you everything you need to know about
0:07.2	the National Football League and hopefully a few other things about life.
0:12.3	This week, Philip Rivers, quarterback of the Los Angeles
0:15.7	Chargers who just started his 200th regular season game in the NFL. He's the fourth
0:21.6	quarterback in league history to do that. You're going to love
0:25.1	this conversation. Philip Rivers is one of the cool people that I know in the
0:30.2	NFL. And Ian O''Connor author of the new book Bellachick an exhaustive
0:38.0	tome about the Patriots coach you're going to learn an awful lot in our conversation. But first, let's stay in New England. I want to tell you one thing about my visit to the Patriots Packers game on Sunday and one of the things I got to do when I was up there that was pretty cool.
0:59.0	So in my life in 1964 when I was seven years old my father took us as a family to our first
1:07.9	Red Sox game. We grew up in northern Connecticut we were sort of a Red Sox family, kind of a split
1:15.0	family, had two brothers who like the Yankees, but everybody else in the house
1:19.6	like the Red Sox and my father was a big Ted Williams guy. So we went to this game and I was
1:26.7	hooked walking into Fenway for the first time. So over the years that's been really
1:31.3	about the only thing I've rooted for I kind of like
1:34.0	going to see the devils I'm a kind of a hockey fan but I you know I really haven't
1:39.2	rooted for any team the way I've rooted for the Red Sox. So at the game on Sunday the Red Sox were
1:46.7	being honored and I thought it would be cool to talk to Alex Cora the World Series
1:51.8	winning manager of the Red Sox. So they put us together late in the first quarter in a hallway outside the suite where a few of the Red Sox were watching the game and celebrating.
2:05.0	So he comes out to talk to me and he's got a University of Miami ball cap on.
2:10.0	He went to the University of Miami. I didn't realize until later that because he
2:16.4	told me that I'm a big fan of Ray Lewis and Ed Reed. So he's not really a big Patriots fan, although he's got great
2:24.9	respect for him. So I looked it up later. Alex Cora was drafted about into
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