Falcons President Matt Ryan joins the show + Eagles GM on A.J. Brown trade talks (3/30 Hour 1)
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up today on PFT Live, we are at the league meetings in Arizona, where A.J. Brown's future in Philadelphia continues to be a talking point, even if the Eagles Brass aren't saying very much about it. |
| 0:09.7 | Well, Miles Garrett, be on the move after a contract adjustment by the Cleveland Browns, and Falcons President of football. |
| 0:15.7 | Matt Ryan joins us to talk about the quarterback competition in Atlanta and much more. |
| 0:19.7 | PFT Live starts right after this. |
| 0:30.9 | Better late than never, noon Eastern, not 7 a.m. |
| 0:34.2 | I didn't get that many emails, usually when we're not on live on a given day. Yeah. Where are you? Are you sick? Are you dead? I mean, if I ever, if I ever am dead, I don't think that they would expect the response for me, but you never know. But yeah, we try to let people know we're going to be in Phoenix, and we are in Phoenix for the league meetings, 2026. |
| 1:14.8 | We have been here for a couple of hours doing some interviews. You'll see those at some point in some format, some way, somehow. The next day or two. The news trickled out of that with Sean McVeigh telling us earlier this morning, for example, that they were interested in Kirk Cousins. Sure. They like it at a Kirk Couss like you. Sean McVigh really likes it at Kirkor Cousins because as he said, I wouldn't be where I am without a Kirkker Cousins. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah, well, that was. |
| 1:18.0 | It was big news. |
| 1:18.8 | And that's the awesome thing about being here. |
| 1:20.6 | And, of course, with a guy like Sean McVeigh, who's just, when we ask him questions, |
| 1:24.0 | you felt like you always get the honest answers. He's confident and talked enough to where he's secure to where he can just say whatever he wants and feel pretty good about it. But yeah, that was kind of like, there's been blurbs of that out there. But that was the first time I feel like somebody from the Rams organization kind of put a face to a name like that. I hadn't seen it. Nobody on my staff had seen it. And now, he couched it as if it doesn't work out with Jimmy Garoppolo, but still he's on their radar screen. And Kirk Cousins has options. And if there isn't a starting option for him, and this gets back to Arizona. I mean, I thought that and continue to think that Mike LaFloor, who comes from that we love Kirk Cousins tree. |
| 2:03.2 | Yeah, would make a play for him too. |
| 2:04.7 | Yeah. |
| 2:04.9 | And he just came from the Rams. |
| 2:07.6 | And when you look at what they have currently in Arizona, you would think that Kirk Cousins would be a viable option to start there if he wants to play for a team that can renovate the basement in the |
| 2:17.5 | NFC West. |
| 2:18.1 | That's the only problem. |
| 2:19.2 | The two best teams in the NFL right now on paper, but based on what we saw last year, are in the NFC West. And the 49ers aren't far behind them. Well, and I think it's one of those two, depending on what you want for Kirk Couss. Is it important for you to play at the end of the year? I mean, at the end of your career, is it all about just playing? |
| 2:34.4 | Or do you want to make sure if you do play, like we have this conversation a lot lately, I feel like, do you want to be at a place where you feel like you can really show your talents and have some support around you and also possibly win a Super Bowl? And maybe you don't get on the field at all is maybe the downside of that, but you might win a Super Bowl ring. They're one of those teams. We know that. And I think, you know, as far as the Rams are concerned, like we talk about. |
| 2:54.7 | Yeah, they need that insurance policy. They're too good to just go, oh, okay, wait, Matthew Stafford got hurt. We're going to let Stetson Bennett run the show. Nothing against Stenson Bennett. I know he's going in the right direction, but again, you know, he's a guy that doesn't have experience, and when you have a Super Bowl |
| 3:10.3 | team, you want somebody that can come in off the bench in case Matthew Stafford does get hurt to go, oh, wait, we're still okay. We can still find ways to win games or hold down the fort for a few weeks until, you know, Stafford gets back from whatever injury it may be. And we saw how well he played last year in Atlanta once Michael Pennock Jr. Tours ACL in November. |
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