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One of your time. Yeah, not take a sack here. Ryan will fire.

Open for a touchdown is calendar and Lane Stadium goes silent with the 11 seconds to play.

That was Matt Ryan, the Colts, new quarterback in his Boston College days going into Virginia

Tech and coming out with a big win back in 2007. Shout out to Chris Fowler there on the

ESPN call. Okay, so let's go to high school. You're in PA. Everyone's after you. You

end up at Boston College. How did you end up there and how close are you to going somewhere

else? Well, I think you threw everyone's after you around pretty loosely. It was more like

a few people were after me. What star were you? What was your rank? You know all that

stuff, do you remember? I think I was a three star three star. But in their defense, I ran

the triple option in high school and to get three stars running the triple option with

my athleticism, that was generous from them. So I was between Iowa and Boston College and

I love both. There's no doubt about it. But I did love Iowa. I like how different it

was from where I grew up. People were great. Kirk Farens was the coach. He was awesome.

Just really enjoyed my time there. But as it got down to the wire, I couldn't go that

far away from home. You know, in Boston was like four and a half hours, five hour drive

from where I was. Iowa City was a difficult place to get to from Philadelphia. So at the

end of the day, I made a decision on going a little closer to home. Worked out well.

I don't regret any of it, but I was really close to going to Iowa. Penn State, no interest.

None. It was a strange time at Penn State at the time. They were down. And it was that

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