Matt Ryan, CBS NFL Analyst

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Oh, sorry. One retired quarterback returns to claim what's his. Um, that's claim a ring with diamonds made from M&M's peanut butter, but you're on a roll. The Ring of Comfort coming soon to a Super Bowl new you.

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2024 Santa Fe available early 2024. A peanut butter M&M's production. In a world where Super Bowl winners get the world's admiration and a fancy ring, but the runners-up get nothing, one retired cop returns. That's one retired quarterback. Read the script.

Oh, sorry. One retired quarterback returns to claim what's his. Um, that's claim a ring with diamonds made from M&M's peanut butter, but you're on a roll. The Ring of Comfort coming soon to a Super Bowl new you.

Okay, picture this. It's Friday afternoon when a thought hits you. I can spend another weekend doing the same old whatever or I can hop into my all-new Hyundai Santa Fe and hit the road. With available H-Track all-wheel drive and three-row seating, my whole family can head deep into the wild. Conquer the weekend in the all-new Hyundai Santa Fe. Visit HyundaiUSA.com or call 562-314-4603 for more details. Hyundai, there's joy in every journey.

2024 Santa Fe available early 2024. I'm Tony and this is the Tony Kornheiser show. Wow, that makes it sound a bit more serious than it really is. So what exactly is the show about?

Been almost 30 years and I still don't know. Right now we have some of the best voices in football come on to explain to us what we need to know in the college and pro world and we get weekly picks from a monkey. Do you really need more than that? I might just tell you about my bunker game of the latest failed entry in my quest to find the best coffee ice cream. No schmutz please. Listen on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Alrighty, this is Zach Gelb's show on CBS Sports Radio. This portion of the show is sponsored by the new Hyundai Tucson, available with complimentary class leading Blue Link Plus.

Now it's easy to use your phone to control your Tucson. And now joining us, man, I think there's only one person I would do this for and he is the former NFL MVP Matt Ryan. And the only reason why I would end up doing this for Matt Ryan is because I know his favorite cheesesteak spot is Della Sandro's.

But solid, solid spot. What we're going to do now, we're going to talk obviously some football and Matt is here on behalf of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which it's crazy that this challenge has been going on for 10 years and it just speaks to the power of the challenge and what the causes of this challenge. And I got an email from my producer this week, Michael Sampter, and he goes, do you want to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge with Matt Ryan? And I go, okay, like where?

He goes on Radio Row. I go, if you could set it up, I'll do it and here we are, Matt. Yeah, well, I appreciate you doing it with me and appreciate you having me on to talk about the Ice Bucket Challenge. And I can't believe it's been 10 years, right? That thing blew up 10 years ago for a great reason, because it's a disease that if you've ever been personally impacted by it is rough. And I was, a good friend of mine was Pete Frades from Austin College who was instrumental in getting it going. And Pete unfortunately passed away, but he was so brave during that fight with it to create awareness for it. And so here we are trying to make some noise for it and try and keep people going, keep people committed to what they're doing. And so for me, as we get Josh Allen coming to say what's up.

Dion Dawkins protects that man pretty damn good. But so anyhow, it's great to be able to promote it and to try and encourage people if there's a way that they can help raise money for this. Let's keep it rolling. Let's keep the momentum that started 10 years ago going so we can find a cure for this disease. Yeah, I remember doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and I want to say it was 2014, right?

Yeah, 10 years makes sense right around then. And to see that this continues to go and to just honor Pete's legacy and continue to remember everything about Pete. Obviously, you knew him well. I hear all the best stories about him. Unfortunately, I never got to meet him, but just tell me a little bit more about your friend. Yeah, he was one of the first guys I met when I was at Boston College. We were actually in orientation, freshman orientation.

We were kind of in the same dorm. And so like one of the first five guys I met when I got there and just salt of the earth guy and fun. He was one of the people that made everybody feel like he was your best friend. You know, like you've known him forever.

He just had an easy way about him. Cool, cool guy. Great baseball player.

Fun to be around and fun to hang out with and just a good all-around dude. Talking to Matt Ryan right now. We'll get back obviously to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in a bit as we're going to be doing this live on CBS Sports Radio. If you want to watch along, youtube.com slash CBS Sports Radio.

Let me chat to you a little bit about the Atlanta Falcons. I thought Belichick was going to be their head coach. It ends up being Raheem Morris.

How did you kind of process that one when that was announced the other week? I like Raheem. He was with me in Atlanta for six years and I saw him in all kinds of different stages. I saw him as he came in on the defensive side of the ball then switched over coach wide receivers for us for a bit and then went back to the defensive side of the ball call and plays on that side and then ultimately interim head coach and then leaves and goes to the Rams for the last three years and does a great job there. He took a young group of defenders on that Rams defense and turned them into a pretty good unit and I was impressed by that but I like to hire. He understands the organization.

He understands how it works. He's walking into a team that's that's built to win but they need to get the quarterback position right. I think he'll do that. They'll get somebody to solidify the position moving forward and I expect them to do well. So when the speculation was Belichick, Belichick, Belichick, Belichick it ends up being Raheem. You know there's a reaction to that but for you if it was going to be Belichick how would you have kind of approached that one? Well I said it was doing one of the pre-game shows for CBS in the wildcard ground and that was kind of the height of the talk and all this. I said the thing that would have made sense to me for Bill Belichick is if you were going out and getting a veteran quarterback maybe it's the Kirk Cousins or you're going to make a play for whoever to get somebody that's established right. You know because I thought the window was maybe three or four years. I don't think Bill would have been coaching there at least in my opinion for you know 10-12 years but if you wanted to go the young direction and try and solidify you know that organization moving forward and get a young quarterback I think you needed to go in a different direction and ultimately I think that's what they've decided.

See what happens you know I could be dead wrong. This is just speculation on my part but we'll see what happens with them in the draft here in a couple of months. So I've talked about you a lot throughout this season because one of our co-workers is Tiki Barber who you obviously call games with and I'm a big fan of Andrew Catalon but seeing Tiki every day in the office I feel like whenever a quarterback would go down and unfortunately there was a lot of them I go is your broadcast partner going to be your broadcast partner on Sunday and every time he goes I think Matt's just done playing I think he really enjoys the broadcasting so if you didn't I don't know how many calls you got this year I'm sure there were quite a few but if you didn't come back this year you're officially done it's over there's no more coming back to the league? Yeah yeah well yeah I'm comfortable with what I'm doing right now I've really enjoyed you know I really enjoyed working with Tiki I mean he's great he's a great dude to be around I think that was part of it too right like I didn't know at the beginning of last season what it was going to be like maybe I was no good maybe it wasn't going to be fun calling these games or anything but I think working with Catalon working with Tiki Barber AJ Ross on the sideline for us and then really our director and producer our producer Steve McKee and our director Andy Goldberg were fantastic and so as the season shook on and these spots opened up I was like I'm kind of having fun doing what I'm doing things are good at home like it just made sense to to continue on so I think it's pretty safe to say I'm going to continue to do what I'm doing. Gotcha Matt Ryan here with us and that's good for us here at CBS because you know you never know how I think people try to complicate broadcasting too much they're like oh he doesn't have broadcasting experience and and now he's going from the gridiron to to a great broadcast with him like so what if he's good he's good and you guys have a good booth but how do you kind of think it all played out this past year? You know I thought I thought it got better as the year went on as it should right chemistry got better all of those things but Tiki and I and Andrew would talk all the time is we wanted to feel like you know it was three guys sitting at a bar watching a game and and the fourth guy at the bar is the audience and so have fun you know maybe I explain one of these things here Tiki gives his lens on a run play or whatever there Andrew kind of guides the conversation and you know I thought I thought we did a pretty good job of that you know and and improved on like the hard part for me was telestrating and doing the replays and stuff like that getting that going but you know you got to be careful when you're drawing we always know what people are looking for on social media I understand I understand I worked hard to not draw anything so you know it was it I thought we we had fun you know and I thought we covered games in a really good way and hopefully you know we all just continue to get better we're going to be doing the ALS ice bucket challenge with Matt Ryan momentarily live on the Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio from a quarterback perspective I've said this 9,000 times today so make it 9,001 I'm sick of the way that people are talking about Brock Purdy yeah you know full disclosure before the season I said I think he's a system quarterback yeah but as the season goes on and he keeps on winning I don't care how people refer to him you win you're eventually a Super Bowl champion it doesn't matter I agree with you I think that you know he had a great first year fair to ask the question can he continue to do that well he did he continued to do it all of his second year and in fact made plays in the second half of playoff games to keep them going to me it's like okay he he's a legitimate starting quarterback in this league and he's a guy that's good enough to beat you any week he's on the field what else do you want I mean that's that's to me enough it's it's good enough and and I don't think he's even scratching the surface of you know what he can be I think he'll continue to get better more comfortable better vision like a better understanding of defenses all of these things come with experience I think he's going to continue to improve as a player and his skill set is by far good enough to win in this league Matt Ryan here with us if Kyle Shanahan is hoisting that Lombardi on Sunday and you know you guys have obviously you know been through a lot what would that moment mean to you I'd be happy for a friend you know and and a guy that you know when you're when you're in in the you know building with somebody every day and you're working with them and you see how important it is to them you see how hard they work what they're willing to do to be successful you're root for guys like that and that's Kyle Shanahan it's incredibly important to him he's dedicated to what what he's done he's done a great job in San Francisco and you know at some point he's going to win Super Bowl I truly believe that and I'm going to be really happy for him when he does but what do you think the biggest x-factor is in this game I think to me it's the offensive line play for both teams as as unsexy as that is I'm a big fella I like when we praise up the hog mollies to me like you look at you know how you win football games how how you kind of take over games it's pounding and it's it's protecting your quarterback it's being able to run the football I think both teams want to do that the team that does it better to me is the team that's going to win all righty so this isn't TV even though we're streaming the radio product is the main focus so we got to make sure there's no dead air we're going to do the ALS ice bucket challenge of the 10-year anniversary of the challenge right now so I'm following my quarterback today I'm not the quarterback okay and and you're not the quarterback either right now it's it's Michael Santer so Santer you direct us you tell us what you want to want us to do so we can get this thing rocking and rolling here on radio row where are we going all right so you guys are going to come follow me over here to these buckets okay we're going to move the camera I'll give you the mic I'll hold the mic for you Zach okay and uh we'll just have some fun are you nervous by the way nervous yeah all right let's let's do it I need a good pre-game speech are you nervous I'm I already agreed to this I don't get nervous we got to do it we're doing a game speech coming up all right here we go so here we go you may want to keep on talking so we can end up all right well here we go they are moving on over ladies and gentlemen we are switching up the camera here we are hold on everybody here all right as you can see we have them all set up in their ice buckets there are buckets right in front of them they're in little mini kiddie pools which is absolutely fantastic all right all right here we go oh that's Chris Long um anyway so we're about to do this I need a quick pre-game speech before we do the ALS ice bucket challenge what do we got cooking still my pre-game speech is just don't overthink it dump it on you it's not gonna be too bad I mean it's gonna suck a little bit but you'll be all right afterwards the other thing I'm saying is I'm challenging Tiki oh he's calling out Tiki right we've been talking about Tiki Barber all day that's our guy Tiki's got to do it too man he's a good guy he supports good causes but I'm gonna need to see him in the ice all right here we go clear eyes full hearts can't lose let's go Matt let me take the microphone ready one two three there we go wow that is a pretty look now just real quickly before we let you run post-game thoughts I think that's maybe the greatest accomplishment of your career like MVP get into a Super Bowl the last time I did this I gotta be honest was after a training camp practice so I was like hot and sweaty tired it actually felt good that was a little colder than the last time I did it so it's for a good cause support ALS research and let's find a cure for this disease let's be real let's thank god that the Super Bowl is not in Minnesota this year because I think we would have just had hypothermia in this moment let's get some towels bro well I appreciate it thank you so much you're the best he is Matt Ryan it is the Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio I have to kill a minute here so I have to just talk for a minute all righty I got like all right so Tiki's like bougie when he's in the broadcasting booth he probably has all of his snacks what does Matt Ryan bring into uh the booth just to snack on on a football sunday I'm simple I'm I'm water or a coffee first half whatever whatever they have laid out uh in there for the little spread at lunch I'll grab something and then a water in the second half I'll have a little coffee in the first but I don't really snack during uh during the broadcast but I'll eat whatever they got I'm I'm not picky so this is for a great cause I'm just I'm actually thrilled that this went down so effortlessly the engineering guys are all freaking out my bosses are calling me don't get us fired or anything like that don't get us kicked out of here but this was awesome Matt I think we got what how many how much time do I have here 30 seconds left so uh just give me official prediction on the game or say one more thing about Pete if you want yeah well Pete was the best there there's no doubt about it proud to to at least try and help uh continue what he started and hopefully find a cure for this but my call is the Chiefs part of it that against Patrick Mullins a peanut butter M&M's production in a world where Super Bowl winners get the world's admiration and a fancy ring but the runners-up get nothing one retired cop return that's one retired quarterback read the script oh sorry one retired quarterback returns to claim what's his um that's claim a ring with diamonds made from M&M's peanut butter but you're on a roll the ring of comfort coming soon to a Super Bowl new you okay picture this it's Friday afternoon when a thought hits you I can spend another weekend doing the same old whatever or I can hop into my all-new Hyundai Santa Fe and hit the road with available h-track all-wheel drive and three-row seating my whole family can head deep into the wild conquer the weekend in the all-new Hyundai Santa Fe visit hundayusa.com or call 562-314-4603 for more details Hyundai there's joy in every journey 2024 Santa Fe available early 2024 I'm Tony and this is the Tony Kornheiser show wow that makes it sound a bit more serious than it really is so what exactly is the show about it's been almost 30 years and I still don't know right now we have some of the best voices in football come on to explain to us what we need to know in the college and pro world and we get weekly picks from a monkey do you really need more than that I might just tell you about my bunker game of the latest failed entry in my quest to find the best coffee ice cream no schmutz please listen on the odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts