Matt Ryan, QB Atlanta Falcons and Mike Florio, NBC Sports and ProFootballTalk

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Peter King talks to Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan and founder of ProFootballTalk.com, Mike Florio. Ryan discusses the difference in his game since Kyle Shanahan began coaching him and how wide receiver Taylor Gabriel has helped change their offense. Ryan also reveals how he gets away from football and what it was like to succeed Michael Vick. Florio explains how a West Virginia lawyer transitioned to media life and how he enjoys being a burr in the saddle of the NFL. He also shares the problems he has with the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Peter King. Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King, where I take you inside the minds of the biggest influencers in the NFL.
0:12.0	This week, Atlanta Falcon's Quarter... in the football talk and NFL analyst for NBC sports. I ask Ryan about the difference in
0:26.2	his game this year under offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan.
0:30.1	He's put everybody in positions to succeed.
0:32.8	You know, he plays to people's strengths
0:34.8	and tries to put people in position to succeed.
0:37.2	And that's why I think you see so many people catching passes,
0:40.2	catching touchdowns for us,
0:42.0	is because he's putting guys in positions to be successful.
0:45.0	I asked Florio, how did a West Virginia lawyer like him get into the football media business?
0:51.5	I saw this website
0:52.5	NFL Talk. I don't have to check that out and I started to go to it
0:56.2	and it's like instantly I was hooked. Hooked and they had a little ad at the top
1:00.8	that they were looking for writers and I thought hey what the hell
1:03.8	I'll throw something together and send it in now my conversation with Atlanta
1:07.9	Falcon's quarterback Matt Ryan back on the MMQB podcast with Peter King. I'm here now with Matt Ryan, the
1:17.5	quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, the second seed in the NFC playoffs as we continue to preview the 2016 season NFL
1:28.4	playoffs.
1:29.4	Matt, thanks so much for joining me.
1:31.4	Yeah, absolutely Peter, happy to be on okay so let's just talk a little bit at first about
1:38.9	Your year I've sensed as you've gone along I mean the game that you guys played where
1:45.8	Taylor Gabriel catches two identical passes right at the line of scrimmage and
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