Ryan Leaf, the second pick (to Peyton Manning) in the 1998 NFL Draft.

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week's guest: Ryan Leaf, the second pick (to Peyton Manning) in the 1998 NFL Draft. A redemptive Leaf on competing with Manning to be the top pick in the draft two decades ago, on crashing-and-burning out of the NFL, on his life careening out of control after his ill-fated football career, on a harrowing experience at a prize fight in Las Vegas, on rebuilding his life after more than two years in prison, on how he has embraced his second chance at life by advising both addicts and football players, and on how he looks back at the last 20 years.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Peter King. Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King, where I take you inside the minds of the biggest influencers in the NFL.
0:12.0	This week, a conversation with Ryan. in the NFL.
0:12.8	This week a conversation with Ryan Leif, who 20 years ago was in contention with Peyton
0:19.2	Manning for the number one pick of the 1998 draft.
0:24.0	His life and his career have taken many
0:28.3	hairpin turns since then.
0:30.1	And we'll discuss all of it right after a couple of thoughts about the NFL entering
0:37.4	week 17. You know always in my memory anyway, always entering week 17, there's either a win and you're in
0:47.9	situation as far as a division winner or maybe a fascinating wild card contest to see who gets the last
0:56.2	wild card or two and this year there really isn't much of anything I mean all seven of the eight divisions have already been
1:06.3	one entering the final week. The eighth division the NFC South will have a
1:11.6	championship game when New Orleans and Carolina face off in week 17.
1:18.1	But think about it.
1:18.8	What really does it matter?
1:20.0	One of them is going to be the four seed, one of them is going to be the five seed. The only thing riding on this quite honestly
1:26.2	is a home playoff game. And look, that's a lot, but it's not like you're talking about
1:32.0	missing out on the playoffs.
1:33.8	So not a lot of real interest entering week 17,
1:39.0	three playoff spots, the fifth and sixth seed in the AFC and the sixth seed in the
1:46.4	NFC are up for grabs but hard to imagine any of the teams that are going to make
1:51.1	it out of those three. Really you're going to make it out of those three.
1:53.0	Really you're going to make a lot of noise in the playoffs.
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