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

Summary

Digital Social Hour: Episode Summary Title: NFL Secrets to Building Future Leaders | Patrick Peterson DSH #1120
Host: Sean Kelly
Guest: Patrick Peterson
Release Date: January 18, 2025

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Introduction

In this compelling episode of Digital Social Hour, host Sean Kelly engages in an in-depth conversation with NFL star Patrick Peterson. The discussion delves into Peterson's experiences in the league, his observations on the mental aspects of sports, the impact of NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) deals on emerging athletes, and his aspirations beyond professional football.

Patrick Peterson’s Journey and Achievements

Patrick Peterson opens up about his illustrious career in the NFL, highlighting his competitive nature and dedication to excellence. Reflecting on his recent participation in a celebrity poker tournament, he shares how the game mirrors the strategic thinking required on the football field.

Notable Quote:

• Patrick Peterson [01:34]: “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.”

The Mental Aspect of Sports

A significant portion of the conversation centers on the often-overlooked mental challenges faced by athletes. Peterson emphasizes the importance of mindset and the ability to manage personal attitudes to sustain a long-term career in the NFL.

Notable Quote:

• Patrick Peterson [02:35]: “The mental side of sports is why you see the difference between... guys not understanding what the position that they're in and understanding that the position is all in their control.”

Importance of Routine and Regimen

Peterson discusses his strict personal regimen, particularly his use of saunas to maintain physical and mental health. He contrasts experiences across different teams, noting how facilities and available resources influenced his ability to adhere to his routines.

Notable Quote:

• Patrick Peterson [04:16]: “I had to get in the sauna every day before I even got to the building.”

NIL Deals and Their Impact on Future NFL Players

A key highlight of the episode is Peterson's critique of NIL deals in college football. He argues that while NIL provides financial benefits, it may inadvertently diminish the work ethic and drive of players entering the NFL by providing them with substantial earnings early on.

Notable Quotes:

• Patrick Peterson [14:07]: “NIL is taking over. In my opinion, it's hindering the game, really... they're going to be making about the same amount of money that they were making in college.”
• Sean Kelly [15:55]: "I feel that."

Recommendations for Managing NIL Money

Peterson proposes solutions to mitigate the potential negative effects of NIL deals. He advocates for financial education programs and suggests delaying the distribution of NIL funds until after players have graduated, ensuring they are better prepared to handle substantial earnings responsibly.

Notable Quotes:

• Patrick Peterson [15:57]: “They should put these guys through money management courses, give them the money after they're done with college.”
• Patrick Peterson [17:32]: “So why would you want to be you getting this money now for?"

Future Plans and Aspirations

Looking ahead, Peterson expresses his desire to give back to the community by coaching Little League and potentially managing a college football program. He aims to instill the values of hard work and continuous improvement in young athletes, counteracting the complacency he observes in some of his peers.

Notable Quote:

• Patrick Peterson [12:07]: “Next chapter for me, man, is... I want to be a Little League coach. Like I want to have the best Little League football team out ever.”

He also shares his ambitions to transition into broadcasting, hoping to leverage his extensive knowledge and passion for the game to educate and inspire a broader audience.

Notable Quote:

• Patrick Peterson [18:35]: “My goal is to be in the broadcast as a color broadcaster... I want to be able to give as much information that I can to the public.”

Conclusion

The episode concludes with Sean Kelly commending Peterson for his insights and forward-thinking approach to both his professional career and personal development. Peterson's reflections offer valuable lessons on leadership, mental resilience, and the importance of continuous growth—principles that are essential for building future leaders both on and off the field.

Notable Quote:

• Sean Kelly [19:21]: “Absolutely. We’ll link your stuff below. Man, I hope you can find that opportunity.”

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Connect with Patrick Peterson:

• Instagram: @patrickpeterson_real
• Broadcasting Aspirations: Aiming to join sports broadcasting teams in the near future.

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Note: This summary excludes promotional content and focuses solely on the substantive discussions between Sean Kelly and Patrick Peterson.

Transcript

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[C]

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[D]

I want to be a little league coach. Like I want to run a college program. Little league football team. Yeah. Because 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 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 a. Like me.

[C]

All right, Patrick Peterson, my man. You made it far today. Good job. I did.

[D]

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

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Really?

[C]

Just getting by. Barely.

[D]

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.

[C]

Nice.

[D]

That was my goal.

[C]

Top 20.

[D]

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.

[C]

You like reading people try to. Yeah. It's a good skill to have. It is, you know, get you far in life if you could understand where people are coming from.

[D]

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.

[C]

Facts. It's our perception.

[D]

Exactly. Yeah.

[C]

That's key. Damn, we're getting deep on this thing.

[D]

Hey. Hello.

[C]

Let's go. I didn't know you I didn't know you had a philosophy sign to you.

[D]

I love it, bro. Yes, sir.

[C]

Let's go. Yeah, but sports is. People don't talk about the mental side of sports.

[D]

Y.

[C]

You know, there's a lot of mental.

[D]

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. The. 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, like, I've been in the league 13 years, so I know what the grind means and what. What comes with the grind. But at the same time, if you want to be great in, in, in, and if you want to be able to last in this game, you got to be able. Be able to do the minute things, the little things. And those are things that's going to help you last in this league.

[C]

Facts. What does some of those things look like in football?

[D]

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 resume. Right. 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. 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.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

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 gotta find ways to still stick to my regimen, which is get in the sauna before practice and after practice.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

So I found a hotel and you can ask guys that was in Pittsburgh, like, dy, 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, as far as background checks, our wife needed help with such and such. He was like the main source. So I was like, man, d. Y man, you know, everywhere that I've been, you know, we had a sonnet, 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 gonna continue to have.

[C]

They're old school.

[D]

Yeah, old school no matter what.

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[C]

Yeah, I love saunas. I'm in that.

[D]

Yeah. Just because. And I know I'm going off of my regiment, but being in Pittsburgh as well, being there gave me the ability to, to really understand what coming from the mud means, if that makes sense. Because they're, you know, being there for six months, being with Coach Tomlinson, like it's all old school. We still go to the world. They still go to St. Vincent Vincent for training camp. Most pro teams don't have training camps off site. They're having it either at their facility to where they have wholesale 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 just being there, like I said for those six months, man, being with Coach Tomlinson 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, 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. But to be there with Coach Tomlin. Cause 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.

[C]

Wow. Did they end up getting the saunas?

[D]

I don't know yet. Because that was one thing I was on. I was on Coach Tomlin about like, man, like, the steam room is cool, but that's, 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, it's helped me be in the league as long as I was able to be in the league.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

Just because, like, you gotta think of this. If you're a rubber band and you're cold, you're froze, you're frozen. When you stretch it, it's gonna pop. Right. If you're in asana, you 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.

[C]

Wow. That's a good test. Damn. Yeah. Saunas are a game changer, man. Everyday infrared sauna for me, no doubt about it. You like infrared or the, the regular one.

[D]

I mean, so when I was in Arizona, we had the, the regular sauna. When I was in Minnesota, we had a regular sonosaur in my house. I ended up getting the infrared sauna because I heard about the benefits that the infrared saunas.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Provides.

[C]

It penetrates your body deeper. What's the, what's the next chapter for you, man? You got it planned out?

[D]

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.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Like 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. In my opinion, it's hindering the game, really, because when guys come into the game from college with nil deals, they making 2, 3, 4, $5 million right now. When they get drafted, everything's 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 a league like a. Like me, for me, I'm never satisfied. I can't Think I can't talk on everybody else mindset, but for me, my cup is never full and I'm never satisfied. So, like, when I see these guys, the older 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 Nil deal. They own tv. They pretty much on the same platform as an NFL guy. Right?

[C]

Right. Yeah. In social media. Yeah.

[D]

In a sense, they, 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 doing, we making big bucks in college, but at the end of the day, there's more out there for you. So why are you satisfied with what you have now?

[C]

Right.

[D]

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.

[C]

Yeah. So what do you think the fix is for that?

[D]

What I think is they should have those guys hold that money, what they're making. Like, I'm, 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 2, 3, 4 million dollars for in college, like at the end of the day, what do 18 through a 20 year old, a 20 year old need? Three to five, $6 million 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.

[C]

I feel that.

[D]

Give them an opportunity to learn the problems, the, the headaches that comes with the money. You know what I mean?

[C]

Absolutely.

[D]

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

[C]

Yeah. They're gonna blow it fast.

[D]

So they never been in this position before. So you got guys coming out of the yin yang, 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.

[C]

Yup.

[D]

So now you giving your mom, your auntie this, that and the other. A hundred thousand 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 making that type of money, you in a whole nother different tax bracket. So why would you want to be you getting this money now for? We'll just say Nissan for an example. Nissan say we going to give x whatever college $2 million. All right, we're going to give this kid $2 million. Now you now you in a whole nother tax bracket now you got to pay 36 to 37% on that times federal. So now that might equals up to 45%.

[C]

If you're in Cali, it's 50%, you.

[D]

Know what I mean? So now you getting a whole check from Nil deal and not knowing what you gotta pay back at the end of the year.

[C]

Did this happen to you your rookie year?

[D]

No, it did not.

[C]

Nice.

[D]

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. You just getting this boatload of money and now like I watch Instagram, everybody want jewelry, everybody want a car, everybody want this, that and other. But not understanding what comes with that.

[C]

Yeah, they're definitely not teaching that to the college kids. Yeah, I hope you can help solve that problem, man. That's going to be cool to see you do. Where can people find you and keep up with you, man?

[D]

Patrick Peterson, the real Patrick Peterson on Instagram. I'm around now. 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 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.

[C]

Absolutely.

[D]

Like I've seen a lot of guys coming into into this league that are just happy to be in the league. But what are you going to do to last in the league.

[C]

Fox yeah, we'll link your stuff below. Man, I hope you can find that opportunity.

[D]

Yes sir.

[C]

Sir. Peace guys.

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