Mike McCarthy on his desire to coach again, plus Dan Pompei on Lamar Jackson & Brian Piccolo

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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(1:30) Peter King riffs on Eli Manning's swan song in front of the Giants fans (7:00) Former Packers coach Mike McCarthy sits down for an extended conversation about what he's been up to in the past year, his feelings about getting fired in Green Bay, the need to change and adapt to the present-day NFL, and why he's deserving of another head coaching job in the NFL in 2020 (40:55) Dan Pompei of The Athletic talks about his recent story on Brian Piccolo & Lamar Jackson

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast. This is entering week 16 in the National Football League.
0:16.7	We're entering the holiday season basically and I'm glad that you're going to spend some
0:22.1	time with me this week.
0:25.0	We've got two interesting guests.
0:26.8	The first, I went to Green Bay last week,
0:29.4	spent some time with Mike McCarthy,
0:31.6	the former head coach of the Packers, he wants to get back into it as a head coach in 2020.
0:38.0	We talked about his prospects and what he intends to do differently this time around when I was in Green Bay.
0:46.2	So I'll bring you that conversation and also Dan Pompeii of the athletic who's got a very good story out now about Lamar Jackson and also about
0:57.8	Brian Piccolo who 50 years ago was an inspirational figure in this country, some in the same way that Lamar Jackson is now.
1:08.0	Brian Piccolo was a backup running back for the Chicago Bears who died of cancer and left an
1:14.8	inspirational trail in his wake. Lamar Jackson, a very interesting story by
1:20.8	Dan and Jeff Zarebek of the athletic and we'll talk to Dan about that
1:26.9	after you hear from Mike McCarthy. But first I wanted to talk for a couple of
1:32.0	minutes about Eli Manning. Now many of you know
1:36.3	that Eli Manning played what may have been his last NFL game with the Giants on
1:41.2	Sunday when the New York Giants at home in the
1:47.0	Meadowlands beat the Miami Dolphins 36 to 20. It was kind of an emotional game for Manning. He had his whole family there in a box and after the game.
1:56.0	He essentially had them all come down to the field.
2:00.0	Paparazzi was surrounding him, his kids, you can just tell the warm and loving
2:05.4	embraces how wonderful a time it was.
2:09.0	He went into the locker room, got a game ball from Pat Sherman the head coach and he said to the group he's not a big
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