On Monday, a report emerged that Matt Ryan hopes to stay at CBS if\/when he becomes the new president of football operations with the Falcons. On Tuesday, a report emerged that Ryan won\u2019t try to pull double duty.<\/p>\n
Per multiple sources, Ryan was never planning to do both.<\/p>\n
Making the situation even stranger is the fact that the same reporter \u2014 Tom Pelissero of NFL Media \u2014 was responsible for both reports. <\/p>\n
As one source put it, it\u2019s not about the obvious conflict of interest that emerges when someone who is covering the entire league is employed by (or owns a piece of) one of its teams. Ryan wouldn\u2019t stay at CBS because he\u2019ll be fully focused on the Falcons if he gets the job, showing up every day in an effort to help the team be as competitive as it can be.<\/p>\n
Which puts him in stark contrast to Tom Brady, who is both working for Fox and is a central figure in the management of the Raiders\u2019 organization.<\/p>\n
Good for Ryan to realize there\u2019s only one way to do the job. Employees resent nothing more than someone who isn\u2019t there every day telling the folks who are what they need to be doing. There\u2019s value in being present, being plugged in, and being able to understand the day-to-day realities of the various issues and questions and problems a team faces.<\/p>\n
It remains to be seen whether Ryan has the skills to lead a football operation. He has equity (not the ownership kind, at least not yet) in Atlanta given his years spent there as a player, the same as John Elway did in Denver. But let\u2019s be realistic about both situations. Other teams weren\u2019t clamoring to hire Elway to be a General Manager (maybe they should have been, given that he built a team that won a Super Bowl), and Ryan isn\u2019t in Harbaugh-style demand to shift from quarterback to TV analyst to high-level front-office executive.<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t work for Ryan and the Falcons. But if it doesn\u2019t, it won\u2019t be because Ryan didn\u2019t put in the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, a report emerged that Matt Ryan hopes to stay at CBS if\/when he becomes the new…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-499387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115854984143373665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}