Jalen Ramsey, Darius Leonard, Browns talk with Mary Kay Cabot & remembering Don Banks

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Peter's Training Camp Tour continues as he has conversations with an All-Pro CB & the Defensive Rookie of the Year. Plus a chat about the most interesting team in football, and remembering an old friend. (1:15) Peter tells a few stories and reminisces on what made Don Banks such a great friend and colleague. (6:00) Colts LB Darius Leonard talks about his fabulous rookie year, why shutting down Adrian Peterson was his welcome to the NFL moment, why tackles are not overrated, and the Usain Bolt quote that drives him every day. (29:30) Jaguars CB Jalen Ramsey explains why he's the best defensive back in the league (but might not be in Jacksonville for long), putting a $20 bill in his shoulder pads, and which CBs were his inspiration. (41:20) Mary Kay Cabot, who has covered the Browns for nearly 30 years, talks about what it's like to cover the most fascinating team in the NFL.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, Training Camp Road Edition. I've been on the road all week, actually been on the road
0:15.4	bordering two weeks right now. Going to a bunch of camps, meeting a bunch of people,
0:20.8	and seeing how the 2019 season is shaping up.
0:25.8	This week I was in Westfield, Indiana at the Colts Training Facility and caught up, have an extended conversation with Darius Leonard
0:36.2	the defending defensive rookie of the year in the NFL really really interesting kid
0:42.0	I enjoy that you will too. And also in Jacksonville
0:47.2	met up with Jaylin Ramsey, the self-proclaimed and he'll tell you if you
0:52.2	haven't heard it yet that he's the best corner back in
0:55.9	football you'll hear him say that right on this podcast also we'll do my segment
1:02.4	five minutes with a writer from Browns Camp. We'll talk to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland
1:09.2	Plain dealer. So, before we get started I think a lot of you probably understand who have followed
1:18.7	me over the years and who know me and who've read me know that probably my closest friend in the sports writing business was Don Banks.
1:28.0	I worked with him for 16 years at Sports Illustrated, and S.I.com.
1:34.7	And Don never woke up after he went to bed Saturday night.
1:39.8	He was in a hotel, a courtyard Marriott of all places in Canton, Ohio and was in a hotel on
1:48.3	Sunday morning and just never woke up. They don't know how he died, why he died. He was a healthy guy, he was a runner.
1:55.6	So it's a bitter pill to swallow, especially for a guy in his mid-50s who just recently,
2:06.4	after being laid off from Sports Illustrated three years ago,
2:10.1	I just recently found another gig and started it last Thursday.
2:15.0	That gig unfortunately only lasted three days.
2:18.6	He worked for the Las Vegas Review Journal,
2:22.0	and you've probably seen if you're on social media an outpouring of
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