Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, the co-founder of the Players Coalition, and NFL Network reporter Kim Jones

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jenkins on how his career has changed since moving from New Orleans to Philadelphia, on the rise in activism among players in the league, on the money he and the Players Coalition have been able to donate in grants to six social-justice organizations in 2019, and on what the movement has meant to the players in the NFL. Jones on the stunning health issue that popped up out of nowhere and nearly took her life in November, on what being perfectly healthy one day and being told her life was in danger the next has done to her psyche, on her appreciation at the reaction to her health scare, and on how her life has changed by the event.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I try to tell you mostly about football, but
0:09.2	also just a little bit about life. This week two guests Malcolm Jenkins, the excellent
0:15.6	Philadelphia Eagle Safety and the co-founder of the Players Coalition, which
0:20.0	works on social justice issues.
0:24.1	And we'll be joined by Kim Jones of NFL Network.
0:28.4	Kim had a life-threatening experience while on assignment in Washington in November.
0:34.7	She'll tell us that story and she'll also tell you about her new found lease on life.
0:40.8	But first, let's talk about Antonio Brown. I mean, everybody else is.
0:46.0	Antonio Brown, as we record this on Tuesday afternoon, has made such a living recently on social media that I wonder if he
0:56.8	sometimes if he remembers how to play football. He always is just all about
1:02.3	social media with Antonio Brown going on Twitter, going on
1:06.4	Instagram making videos while he's exercising. It's just a pretty humorous thing. But anyway Antonio Brown, you know, basically has
1:18.0	released a on Twitter has released a tweet where he said had a great meaning with Mr. Rooney, which is Art Rooney, the chairman of the Steelers.
1:30.0	Said we discussed a lot of things and we cleared the air on several issues.
1:34.5	We both agreed that it is time to move on
1:37.3	but I'll always have appreciation and gratitude toward the Rooney family
1:41.4	and the Steelers organization.
1:44.4	So that's that.
1:46.4	The Steelers, by not issuing a rebuttal to this, obviously it appears now that the Steelers will be attempting to trade
1:55.8	Antonio Brown. I think the question becomes has Antonio Brown done so much
2:01.8	damage to sort of to his brand that he has badly
2:09.0	affected the trade market and kind of infected the trade market because obviously with how divisive
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