Ryan McNeil talks playing ball at "The U," negotiating his own contracts, his "SportsID" tech company
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, former Pro Bowl cornerback Ryan McNeil joins Roman and Peanut. Ryan talks about playing at the University of Miami under Jimmy Johnson and then learning how to silence his ego and embrace the process as a rookie playing for the Detroit Lions. He also shares how he negotiated his rookie contract, why he approached his career from a business mindset, and where his passion for entrepreneurship comes from. Ryan explains how he built his sports-technology company SportsID does and how it helps parents to navigate the sports space.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Ryan McNeill, former 11-year NFLO Pro, founder and CEO of Sports ID. |
| 0:11.6 | And this is Interfair's Players' Second Acts podcast. |
| 0:54.5 | What's going on, everybody? I'm Tina Tumman, and this is the NFL players second acts podcast. I got my guy with me, Roman Harbor. What's up, baby? I'm good. I'm hype. And we got that energy going right now. I'm high. Yes. We got all DVDs on the set right now, so I'm a little extra. I'm a little extra keeps right now. DBs are the best. This is going to be a great one. So first of foremost, thank you to Iheart for letting us get their studio right here in Western, West Midtown, Atlanta. It's pretty fancy over here. It's nice studio, nice setup. And I can't wait to have our conversation with our guests today. Yeah. So he is the product of the U or the University of Miami. He won two national championships, |
| 1:01.6 | played DBs, a Pro Bowl for 11 seasons, successful businessman and the CEO of a whole bunch of |
| 1:08.6 | companies. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the pod, Ron McNeil. |
| 1:13.7 | Hey, can I just say something, Peter. What you got to say something? Say something. You do up to you |
| 1:17.8 | and your fingers are all flailing. Hey, man. It's like, it's very detail oriented. Very detail. |
| 1:23.9 | Nice and Chris. I got the messed up fingers. I just did it. It was me nice and Chris. |
| 1:28.4 | Make sure the two thumbs connect. |
| 1:30.7 | Yes. |
| 1:31.2 | You can't be all. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.3 | I didn't actually go, so I wasn't trying to make a little perfect. |
| 1:35.1 | That's true. |
| 1:35.2 | That's true. |
| 1:35.6 | And I peep that. |
| 1:37.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.5 | I'm not trying to fake like I went there. |
| 1:40.3 | I just, hey, it wants to do. It's like me saying, hey, I'm a cute. I do something like, I'm not really throwing it up. |
| 1:45.1 | I just like, yeah, I'm a. Thank you. I appreciate the intent. Yeah, I just appreciate it. I'm going to, you went there. I didn't go there. That's your school. How quickly did you get acclimated to the life of football after you? I mean, you had Dennis Erickson, Jimmy Johnson as your coaches. |
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