NFL Secrets to Building Future Leaders | Patrick Peterson DSH #1120

What's the next chapter for you, man?

You got it planned out?

Man, I want to be a little league coach.

Like, I want to run a college program, little league football team.

Yeah, I want to start with a 10 and 11 age group.

Because when guys come into the game from college with NIL deals, so they're going to be making about the same amount of money that they were making in college.

So now they don't have the same grind and the same attitude as of if a guy who came in the league like

me.

All right, Patrick Peterson, my man, you made it far today.

Good job.

I did.

I did.

I was not surprised, but happy to make it in the position that I was in.

Yeah.

Really just getting by barely.

Yeah.

Especially when that big chip is not on you, the big blind and the small blind.

You pretty much run your own race from there.

Right.

Yeah.

So I was running my own race, so it helped me come back you know in the top 20 at least nice that was my goal top 20 yeah this is my second celebrity poker tournament and i just picked up the game of poker i love it because i love being competitive and

love the aspect of trying to read everybody else's faces

you know what i mean so i enjoy that aspect of it you like reading people try to yeah it's a good skill to have it is yeah get you far in life.

Yeah.

If you could understand where people are coming from.

Yeah.

That's the thing, though.

We can't understand everybody and where they're coming from.

Because at the same time, they're not really giving

us the full version of them.

Facts.

It's our perception.

Exactly.

Yeah, that's key.

Damn, we're getting deep on this thing.

Hey, hello.

Let's go.

I didn't know you had a philosophy side to it.

I love it, bro.

Yes, sir.

Let's go.

Yeah, but sports is people don't talk about the mental side of sports.

Yep.

You know, there's a lot of mental.

And you know, the mental side of sports is that's why you see the difference between,

I know everyone in the world see

the statistic of guys lasting, because I can only speak up the sport that I played, which is football.

Guys only lasting,

you know, three years.

I think it's like 3.4.

It may be even less than that now.

But for the most part, guys not understanding what

the position that they're in

and understanding that

the position, the position that they are in, that is all in their control.

Meaning, when you go to work every day, because I've been in the league 13 years, so I know what the grind means and what

comes with the grind.

But at the same time, if you want to be great

and if you want to be able to last in this game, you got to be able to do the minute things, the little things.

And those are things that's going to help you last in this league.

Facts.

What do some of those things look like in football?

Just your everyday regimen.

You know what I mean?

You figuring out what works for you, right?

So like for me,

when I was in Pittsburgh, that was the only time that I really had to change my resumment, right?

As Far as

when I was in Arizona, we had saunas in the in the facility, you know, when I was in Minnesota, we had saunas in the in the facility.

So, my regiment was

I had to get in the sauna every day before I even, before I even got to the building.

Wow, that was just me.

But for me, when I was in Pittsburgh, they didn't have saunas in the building.

So I had to find ways on,

all right, for me, I got to find ways to still stick to my regimen, which is get in the summer

before practice and after practice.

Yeah.

So I found a hotel, and you can ask guys that was in Pittsburgh.

Like,

D.Y., who was our player assistant,

you know, guy who kind of, you know, who the players leaned on far as if we needed dinner, if we needed

help with anything far as background checks.

Our wife needed help with such and such.

He was like the main source.

So I was like, man, DY, man, you know,

everywhere that I've been, and, you know, we had a sauna, you know what I mean?

And obviously being an NFL team, you would think that's what every team would have.

But with Pittsburgh, they just really just, it's, it's all

how we got here is what we're going to continue to have.

They're old school.

Yeah, old school.

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Everybody else have, we can care less what everybody have, the state of the art, the state of the art world pools or the state of the art, this, that, and the other.

There it's all about blue collar,

a chip on your shoulder,

regardless what that,

regardless what

is given to you, you're going to make the best of it.

And being in Pittsburgh, man, it actually helped me

just understand

ball at a, at a, at a, at a, at a, at a broader perspective if that makes sense yeah i love signals i'm in that yeah just because and i know i'm going off of my regiment but being in pittsburgh as well being there it gave me the the ability to to really

understand

what

coming from the mud means

if that makes sense because there you know being there for six months being with coach toner

like it's all old school we still go to the world they still go to saint vincent vincent for training camp

most

pro teams don't have training camps off-site they're having it either at their facility uh to where they have wholesale uh hotel accessibility yeah to where guys are comfortable but there in pittsburgh Like I said, like you're really

getting it out of the mud, spending time with your brothers, and understanding

what it really means to get the best out of each other.

And, you know,

just being there, like I said, for those six months, man, being with Coach Tomlin

was, and

I hate that it was my last stop because I feel like I have a lot more to give for the game.

But obviously,

that decision is out of my hands.

But being there, and I told Coach

Tomlin this a number of times, like, man,

me and you have the same mindset.

Like, the way you come into meetings, the way that you carry yourself each and every day,

the way that you

talk to the team, like, we have some of the same principles, man.

So

I was very honored.

Like, real talk, very honored.

I know I had a two-year contract with the Pittsburgh

Steelers, and I wish I was able to fulfill that.

Yeah.

But to be there with Coach Tomlin, because that was the one coach

that I wish I had the opportunity to play for.

Really?

And I had the opportunity last year, and it did not let me down one bit.

Wow.

Have they ended up getting in the saunas?

I don't know yet because that was one thing

I was on Coach Tomlin about like, man, like

the steam room is cool, but that's not benefiting the guys.

Like a sauna is something that, especially being in Pittsburgh, it rains a lot, it snows a lot, it's cold.

Like, I just feel like the sauna for me

has helped me

be in the league as long as I was able to be in the league.

Wow.

Just because, like, you got to think of this.

If you're a rubber band and you're cold, you're frozen, you're frozen, when you stretch it, it's going to pop.

Right?

If you're in a sauna, you're warming your muscles up before you go to actually do something.

You're lubricating your muscles.

So it makes it more easier to stretch versus just having it like a cold rubber band.

Like I want guys and people to put a rubber band in a microwave, in a freezer and see how easy it is to pop versus

a lukewarm or hotter rubber band.

Wow.

That's a good test.

Damn.

Yeah.

saunas are a game changer, man.

Every day, infrared sauna for me.

No doubt about it.

You like the infrared or the regular one?

I mean, so when I was in Arizona, we had the regular sauna.

When I was in Minnesota, we had the regular sauna.

So at my house, I ended up getting the infrared sauna because I heard about the benefits that the infrared saunas

provide.

Yeah, it penetrates your body deeper.

What's the next chapter for you, man?

You got it planned out?

Yeah, next chapter for me, man, is,

man, I want to be a little league coach.

Like, I want to have the best little league football team out ever.

Just like I want to run a college program little league football team.

Yeah.

Like, as far as having meetings, having extra workouts, not weight training, because I want to start with a 10 and 11

age group to where

they got it, but they don't got it.

So there for me, as a guy who's pretty much been at the top of his game at every level that he's played i want to be able to feed this

this information to these kids because at the end of the day nil is taking over

and and in my opinion it's hindering the game really because when guys come into the game from college with nil deals they're making two three four my five million dollars right

now when they get drafted everything slotted so they're going to be making about the same amount of money that it was making in college.

So now they don't have the same grind and the same attitude as of if a guy who came in the league like

me.

For me, I'm never satisfied.

I can't think, I can't talk on everybody else's mindset, but for me, my cup is

never full, and I'm never satisfied.

So like when I see these guys, the order that I got and being in the locker rooms, seeing these guys starting to come in, they're satisfied with what they have right now,

but not understanding

there's more out there for you.

But they're satisfied with what college gave them.

They gave them NIO deal.

They own TV.

They pretty much on the same platform as an NFL guy.

Right?

Right.

In social media, yeah.

In a sense, they're on the same platform as a professional athlete.

So when they get to the professional side, like, oh, man, we've been doing that since college.

So what more, what more do we have to work for?

So therefore, for me, it goes back to the mindset

to,

all right, yeah, we, we doing, we make a big bust in college, but at, at the, at the end of the day, there's more out there for you.

So why are you satisfied with what you have now?

Right.

So I think NIL is great for college football.

The guys making money off their likeness, you know, the images and likeness, but at the same time, I think it's hindering

guys on the next level when they make it to the next level.

Yeah.

So what do you think the fix is for that?

What I think is

they should have those guys

hold that money, what they're making.

Like, I'm not discriminating on what the guys are making or the NIL.

I'm happy for them.

Like, I wish I was in college at this point of time.

But what I think they should do is put these guys through money management courses.

Give them the money after they're done with college.

Because at the end of the day, what they need

two, three, four million dollars for in college?

Like, at the end of the day, what do an 18 through a 20-year-old, a 20-year-old need

three to five six million dollars in college like

like that's all fine and danny but what they should do is give it to those kids once they leave school i feel that give them an opportunity to learn

the problems the the headaches that come with the money

You know what I mean?

Absolutely.

Because a lot of these guys are first-generational wealth type guys.

Yeah, they're going to blow it fast.

So they've never been in this position before.

So you got guys coming out of the yin game like, hey, man, we just saw you sign for X amount of dollars, but not understanding when you're in a different tax bracket, that shit cut in half.

Yep.

So now you're giving your mom, your auntie, this, that, and the other 100,000 here,

200,000 there.

Because you know you want to take care of your family.

But at the end of the day, you have to understand what money means.

So they have to give these kids an educational course

on

where the money goes, what it means, taxes.

Because a lot of the kids don't even understand, like, when you're making that type of money, you're in a whole nother different tax bracket.

So, why would you want to be

getting this money now?

For let's just say, Nissan for an example.

Nissan, say we're going to give

X, whatever college two million dollars all right we're going to give this kid two million dollars now you now you're in a whole nother tax break now you got to pay 36 to 37 percent on that

times federal

so now that might equals up to

45 if you're in cali it's 50 you know what i mean so now you getting the whole check from a nil deal and not knowing what you got to pay back at the end of the year Facts.

Did this happen to you your rookie year?

No, it did not.

Nice.

But this is the example that I want to give out to

these kids

in these college

institutions because

I don't believe that they're giving them

the information that they need to be successful as far as investments.

far as taxes

far as everything it's just you you're just getting this boatload of money, and now,

like, I watch Instagram, everybody wants jewelry, everybody wants a car, everybody wants this, that, and the other, but not understanding

what comes with that.

Yeah, they're definitely not teaching that to the college kids.

Yep.

Um, I hope you can uh help solve that problem, man.

That's gonna be cool to see you do.

Where can uh people find you and keep up with you, man?

Uh, Patrick Peterson, uh, um, the real Patrick Peterson on Instagram.

Uh, I'm around, man.

Hopefully I will be on somebody's tube next year.

So my goal is to be in the broadcast,

a color broadcaster.

So hopefully be in the booth, on the desk, anything like that, because I love the game.

I know the game.

And obviously, I didn't spend 13 years in the league for nothing.

So I want to be able to give.

as much information that I can to the public, not only to the public, but to the youth.

Because I've seen so much in this game to where I think

I can help a lot of guys.

Absolutely.

Like, I've seen a lot of guys coming into this league that are just happy to be in the league.

But what are you going to do to last in the league?

Facts.

Yeah, we'll link your stuff below, man.

I hope you can find that opportunity.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Peace, guys.