Matt Millen--former NFL player, GM and broadcaster and current heart-transplant candidate--and Chicago Bears defensive tackle Akiem Hicks

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Millen, who is awaiting a heart transplant at New Jersey hospital, on his prospects for getting a new heart, on his pragmatic and optimistic approach to the transplant process, on his appreciation of the life he's led in his 60 years, and where this mental approach comes from. Hicks, one of the keys to the strong Chicago defense, on his long and winding road to the top of the NFL, on playing college football in Canada, on working in a DirecTV call center trying to get people to sign up for the NFL package while his own football dream seemed to be dying, and on playing the Rams in the game of the week this week in the NFL.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I try to tell you a lot about football and just a little bit about life.
0:10.0	This week, sort of a serious turn.
0:13.0	We'll talk to Matt Millen, the former Super Bowl champion,
0:17.0	Detroit Lions General Manager,
0:19.0	and longtime television announcer, who at age 60, is sitting in a New Jersey hospital awaiting a heart
0:27.5	transplant.
0:29.5	Then we'll talk to Akeem Hicks, the Star Defensive Limeman for the Chicago Bears, who faced their toughest
0:36.3	test of this season when they host the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night. But first, a couple of thoughts, some on the Green Bay
0:48.0	Packers and some on Matt Millen. We'll start on the field with the Packers. So the Packers is you all
0:54.4	know fired their coach of 13 years, Mike McCarthy, after a sort of a depressing
1:00.7	20 to 17 loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday at
1:05.1	Lambo Field. The firing was not unexpected. The timing of the firing was
1:09.8	expected. But as I wrote in my column football morning in America this week, I thought it was the right time for both sides. The packers get to spend the next month scoping out possible candidates for their job before all teams other than the
1:26.8	Cleveland Browns get to start their job search and McCarthy who right after the
1:32.3	season was probably going to be fired anyway, almost certainly
1:36.4	was going to be fired, now gets a month to decompress and to prepare for coaching interviews probably with the Cleveland Browns
1:46.7	and also most likely down the road with the New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
1:51.6	and whoever else might change coaches in the off season.
1:55.6	I thought things had gotten stale obviously between McCarthy and Aaron Rogers.
2:00.9	They're two very strong-willed guys and you could just see from the outcome of this season as I wrote on Monday in my column.
2:09.0	The very interesting thing is that Aaron Rogers in the first 11 games of this season had 47 throwaways.
2:18.5	He's on pace to have more throwaways than any quarterback has had since Pro Football Focus began measuring that statistic in 2006.
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