NFL Network’s Deion Sanders joined the show to talk about the big stories around the League.
Sanders said that he understood what happened with Jovan Belcher. “I was suicidal once,” Sanders said. “I understand it.” Sanders said he had to fight through it and got past it.
Sanders said there are a “myriad” of players with similar problems at every level of football.
“Who do you turn to when you need an answer,” Sanders said. “Who is there to tell you no when the majority of people in your life have your hand out.”
“My teammates didn’t understand,” Sanders said. He explained that they turned to him for answers. He had not one to turn to.
“If a lot of these guys would be honest with you, they’d be there right now,” Sanders said.
Sanders said that he ran a car off the highway in Cincinnati. He said he was 3-4 the night before for the Reds. “I was in the midst of my first divorce. The only [people] I thought loved me were my kids. And they were stripped away from me.”