Denver running back Phillip Lindsay, one of the season's breakout stars, and Minnesota's Harrison Smith, the best safety in football.

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Lindsay on his incredible story--his record-breaking high school career in Denver, his explosive career in college at Colorado, being snubbed from the NFL Scouting Combine, going undrafted, being overly bitter, then having 15 minutes to choose a team (Denver or Baltimore) as an undrafted free agent. And then what it feels like to run for 100 yards against Oakland and Pittsburgh as a rookie who wasn't supposed to make it. Smith on his road from being someone who never thought he'd play in the NFL to becoming a star in the league, on the science of reading keys and studying opponents, on his interesting relationship with Saints coach Sean Payton, on what makes playing Aaron Rodgers so fun and challenging, and difficult it is to play great defense in the NFL with all the rules favoring offenses.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I'll tell you quite a bit about football
0:08.0	and just a little bit about life. This week my guess Philip Lindsay the rising star running back of the Denver Broncos
0:17.0	and boy does he have a tale to tell. Also all pro safety of the Minnesota Vikings, Harrison Smith, I happen to think that Smith is the best safety playing in professional football.
0:32.0	This is really going to be a great hour. I can tell you
0:34.8	you're going to really, really like both conversations. But before I get to
0:40.4	those, I want to tell you a bit of a good news story this week, a story that didn't really
0:46.1	start off very good last January and February. And that's the story of the Indianapolis
0:52.0	Colts.
0:53.0	So, last January came the news that the Indianapolis Colts and Josh McDaniel,
1:02.0	the offensive coordinator,
1:04.0	the New England Patriots, had reached an informal agreement.
1:08.7	You can't sign a contract until after the end of the season when you're after your team has played its last
1:15.1	game. So the Colts and McDaniels agreed but then after the game, after the Super Bowl game, the Patriots obviously lost to the Eagles
1:27.5	and McDaniels is free. Two days after the Super Bowl, he's going in, he thinks, to clean out his office in New England.
1:36.4	And over the next about 10 hours on the Tuesday after the Super Bowl, Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, Bill Bellicick, the coach of the Patriots, convince
1:47.4	Josh McDaniels to not go to Indianapolis but to stay in New England.
1:52.1	He has to call Chris Ballard, the general manager of the
1:54.7	Colts and Ballard is miffed, but at the end of the day as he told me that
2:01.4	week you know I'm glad it happened now because I want to make sure that whoever we
2:07.7	get as the coach is going to be absolutely unequivocally all in. And that night Chris Ballard did not know who he was going to hire
2:16.5	as his head coach. He was trying to recover from the earthquake of losing out on
2:21.8	Josh McDaniel's. So a few days passed and the
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