On this week’s episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast, host Brandon Contes interviews two-time Super Bowl champion and CBS Sports college football analyst Logan Ryan. Brandon and Logan discuss a wide range of topics including Logan’s reaction to the Patriots firing Jerod Mayo, winning Super Bowls XLIX and LI, Tom Brady as a teammate, and more.
Here’s the full breakdown:
- :38: First season in retirement
- 1:47: Transitioning from player to broadcaster
- 2:57: Making a comeback to playing?
- 3:57: Getting into media
- 6:50: Being more honest and current on football issues in retirement
- 8:17: Preference in doing studio or booth?
- 9:20: Being at CBS Sports
- 11:20: NFL Broadcast Boot Camp
- 12:51: Improving at calling games
- 13:49: Former players turned analysts who have become mentors
- 14:55: Analyst that Logan might aspire to be?
- 16:55: Talking to Tom Brady about broadcasting
- 18:49: How was Brady as a teammate?
- 21:57: Super Bowl XLIX
- 25:11: Super Bowl LI
- 29:43: Playing for Bill Belichick
- 31:37: Belichick going to North Carolina
- 33:04: Belichick’s girlfriend
- 33:52: Belichick’s politics
- 37:10: Could players doing the Trump dance potentially divide a locker room?
- 38:46: Belichick in the media industry
- 40:43: Malcolm Butler being benched at Super Bowl LII
- 41:21: Jerod Mayo fired from the Patriots
- 42:32: Playing for Mike Vrabel
- 44:14: Playing for Kyle Shanahan
- 48:13: Ryan Alternative Solutions Training
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