Welcome to the sports media podcast.

I'm your host, Richard Dyche.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

One guest on this episode, but if you are an NFL fan, it is a familiar name.

Ryan Fitzpatrick is a pregame halftime and postgame analyst

for Amazon Prime Video's Thursday night football coverage. He joined that company in 2022.

He'll be in Seattle this Thursday as part of Amazon's pregame and post game coverage for

the Niners at Seahawks. Then on October 17th, it's the Broncos at Saints in New

Orleans. And I think obviously people know that prior to his big broadcasting career,

Ryan Fitzpatrick, of course, played in National Football League as quarterback. And with that,

I welcome Ryan Fitzpatrick to the sports media podcast. Ryan, how are you? I'm good. Thank you

for having me. Thank you for having me.

Thank you.

All right. So here's where I want to start.

When you cover sports media, you know, as I have, quite frankly, for too long, Ryan,

you talk to a lot of producers and a lot of television executives.

And one of the things that they do is they keep a running list of current coaches and current players who they think could

be, could have success in broadcasting. It doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to go into it,

but they keep these lists. At the moment, I'll just let listeners know, like Mike Tomlin is probably

at the top of the list right now. Every broadcast network I've ever spoken with sort of says Mike Tomlin if he decides to go in

his can't miss very charismatic very honest um just sort of has some a magnetism about him

and um and so you talk to these producers and directors and executives.

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