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Logan Ryan on Jerod Mayo, Super Bowl memories, Tom Brady, and more

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.


-: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 inspire 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 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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