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00:00Frank Walsh, Frank Walsh, it's time for Frank Walsh.
00:10Alright back again with another legend.
00:13This is Logan Ryan, defensive back, NFL corner, safety, he played both positions.
00:19Yep.
00:20A Rutgers guy.
00:21There we go, Jersey.
00:22Jersey guy, Patriots Super Bowl champion, and also the guy who blew up the Patriots.
00:29Blew up the Defs, the Defs star there.
00:31Yes he did, yes he did.
00:32You know they always say, you live long enough you become the villain.
00:36Exactly right.
00:37And I guess in Fox Pro.
00:39The last pass, someone had to catch it, Brady threw it right to me, and it hit Mike Rabel,
00:45telling me to slide.
00:46He actually got mad at me for not sliding there.
00:49And then, you know, it leads Brady to Tampa, where I live now, and the Bucs get a Super
00:56Bowl, and then Mike Rabel leads him back to New England.
01:02So life is in a full circle.
01:03You know it's going to be funny, it's you know, 10, 15 years, 20 years, the rest of
01:07your life, you're going to be at these Patriot functions, and that's always going to be there.
01:11And the fact that, the pick six, that like, the nail in the coffin, that ended the Patriots
01:19dynasty.
01:20Well you know, all great things got to come to an end, and I think we saw from the roasts
01:24and the documentaries, like it was due.
01:26You know, fresh starts sometimes are good for everybody, so that's what it is.
01:32But man, there were so many great memories there.
01:35I personally think that going to Tampa and winning one in Tampa, just made Brady like,
01:41put him on another level.
01:42Yeah, I mean he's the goat for that.
01:45I mean, that is, I think a lot of quarterbacks realize that's not easy to do.
01:49I think guys have tried, and it's not easy to go to a new team, get the system in place,
01:55everything go right.
01:56It's so hard to win a Super Bowl in football because there's no game, you know, there's
02:00no seven game series.
02:01You got to win best of sevens, or I mean all game sevens.
02:03I mean, the Jets tried to do it with Aaron Rodgers, and that blew up in their face.
02:08And Russ tried it with Denver, you know, leaving Seattle to go to Denver.
02:13So I think that really stamped Tom in that situation there, and I got to play with him
02:17in Tampa, and I saw his mindset man, how driven he is, and his ability to get that done.
02:24There's no other athlete in sports that pulled that off first year on a new team.
02:28I mean, you think about it, Joe Montana couldn't even do it.
02:31And Joe Montana, he had a good year in Kansas City his first year, but lost the AFC Championship
02:36game.
02:37It's just, it's incredible.
02:39And the thing about the Patriots is, they were a system.
02:42They could grab anybody, and like, found, to make the best out of someone.
02:48Like they found people that you wouldn't think would be that great, and then they always
02:53did it.
02:54They always had a system.
02:55Like, we saw Devin McCourty.
02:57Yeah, Jason.
02:58Oh, that was Jason.
02:59Yeah, easily mistakenable.
03:00Yeah, well twins.
03:01They're twins, yeah.
03:02That's an easy mistake.
03:03Twins.
03:04Yeah, yeah.
03:05Both of them though.
03:06You know, they got a Super Bowl together there.
03:07Yes.
03:08You know, grabbed Devin, who I went to Rutgers with, and he's an all-pro corner, then they
03:13move him to safety, and that works out as well, all-pro safety.
03:16So yeah, listen, if you have the defensive coaching in place, like Belichick, you have
03:20the mastermind in place, then you have the Hall of Fame quarterback at place.
03:26That gives you the freedom to move a lot of pieces around, but like, I never went into
03:29a Patriots game in my career ever feeling like one ounce that we would lose a game.
03:35Like, never.
03:36We were so prepared.
03:37Yeah, they would.
03:38You know?
03:39I'm not a Dolphins fan.
03:42Just knowing.
03:43I'm sorry to hear.
03:44Dolphins fan from New Jersey?
03:45Yeah, Dan Marino.
03:46Easiest answer.
03:47Oh, wow.
03:48Okay.
03:49It was different.
03:50I actually, I'm actually old enough to remember the Dolphins going to Super Bowls.
03:54Yeah.
03:55See, that's before my time.
03:57That's before my time.
03:58The Dolphins would, we would always stump our toe playing Miami in Miami from New England
04:02though.
04:03That was a tough game for us to play.
04:04They used to be a national team, the Dolphins.
04:07It's just, they've been down for so long now, people forget that.
04:11People forget how great.
04:13Legend.
04:14Legend.
04:15People forget how, how good they were and it's just been so bad so long.
04:21It's kind of depressing as a Dolphins fan and then you watch the Patriots just have
04:25their just 20 years of excellence.
04:27Well, the Pat's got to figure it out now.
04:30Yeah.
04:31You know, they, when that Hall of Fame quarterback retires, you know, things kind of get reset
04:35here and I think we're starting to see that.
04:38It was due.
04:39I, I personally don't like how they handled the Jared Mayo situation.
04:42Yeah.
04:43I don't like that either.
04:45As a former teammate, as a former Patriot, I don't think any of us were cool with how
04:50that Mayo situation went down.
04:51I don't think Robert Kraft was extremely happy about it on how well it went down.
04:55I know he apologized, but Gerard didn't get a fair stake at it at all because he didn't
05:00have the roster.
05:01They didn't spend the money and he really is his first year.
05:04They find Drake May and then he doesn't really get a future to coach him.
05:08It feels like they always wanted to hire Grable.
05:12And even though Mike Grable might be a great coach, might be the answer.
05:16I just, I don't like how they handled the Jared Mayo situation.
05:22I agree.
05:23And I think, I think it was, if they can get Grable, if we can get Grable, this is our
05:28chance to get him.
05:29We might not get him again.
05:30Yeah.
05:31And maybe they should have gotten him a year prior.
05:32Who knows?
05:33I don't think that, you know, Gerard was chosen before the hand, but maybe, you know, Robert
05:38Kraft's thinking, Hey, this is my chance to get Mike.
05:40I played for Mike Grable and he's a heck of a coach now.
05:44He's, he's a guy I always say that, I always say that head coaches, just because you call
05:51plays a coordinator doesn't make you a good head coach.
05:54Head coach got to stand in front of the room, be motivational, inspire.
05:57And I feel like Mike Grable is good at leading a room.
05:59Obviously, you know, that personality as a player, he's got to lead a locker room.
06:03He's got to lead in a room, but he also is good on the X and O's and actual schematics.
06:06So I think he actually has the rare boat, both things you need to be a good head coach.
06:11Now we're going to rewind a little bit.
06:14You went to Rutgers.
06:15I did.
06:16Yeah.
06:17And Rutgers seems to send like great players who just like are ready to play as soon as
06:21they reach the NFL.
06:22Yeah.
06:23Yeah.
06:24Well, I mean, that, that goes to Greg Sciano in one, one, he really knows how to recruit
06:28good players and he gets, he finds these gems like the McCourty twins.
06:32They weren't highly recruited.
06:34Ray Rice was not highly recruited.
06:36You know, get some of these guys to stay in New Jersey or stay in that area.
06:40And there's good players, good athletes out there.
06:42Yes.
06:43But Rutgers is so hard, man.
06:45Like I haven't had a day in the NFL that was harder than a college day at Rutgers.
06:48We ran so much, lifted so much that when I went to New England, people told me I was
06:53hard as going to be.
06:54It was nothing compared to playing for Greg Sciano.
06:55I just felt like, I mean, he's the only one who's ever brought success to Rutgers.
07:02He's made Rutgers at least competitive.
07:04And it's tough.
07:05The challenges of playing at Rutgers and it's, you know, Northeast college football doesn't
07:11mean a whole lot to people in New York, New Jersey.
07:15Yeah.
07:16And that's pro sports up there.
07:17But look at a, you know, Isaiah Pacheco in the Superbowl, third time in three years,
07:23this guy's been in the Superbowl, runs really hard.
07:26So you know, I think these, those Rutgers players play with a certain toughness to them
07:29that you can't take.
07:30Well, it's Jersey tough.
07:31It's Jersey makes you tougher.
07:32Yeah.
07:33I mean, I've, I've done a walk with Eric Legrand and he's really like an icon at Rutgers.
07:40Yeah.
07:41Legend, man.
07:42I was on the field, you know, when that play happened.
07:45He was running down, he was a nose tackle, undersized, you know, nose guard, three technique
07:51nose guard, right at 270, 260 pounds.
07:56And he's running out on kickoff.
07:59He was on kickoff to, to blow up the wedge and imagine someone that big, a D lineman
08:05on kickoff to blow up the wedge.
08:08And that play happens, nobody gets up and Eric, Eric gets caught off to a hospital,
08:14man.
08:15And that was one of the craziest times of all our lives.
08:17A lot to process at that age.
08:18And you see the, the inspiration, the belief that Eric Legrand, yeah, he's, he's become
08:23like the face of Rutgers football.
08:26And a lot of people say, what is Rutgers and where is Rutgers?
08:30I get that a lot from my NFL guys.
08:33Rutgers is the birthplace of college football.
08:34Yes it is.
08:35First ever college football game.
08:361869, November what, November 6th?
08:38Played Princeton.
08:40And beat Princeton.
08:411869 national champions.
08:43There you go.
08:44And I think the score was like six to two, I think.
08:47Six to two because touchdowns count as one point back then.
08:49Yes.
08:50Yes.
08:51Right.
08:52So you know our history there.
08:53Birthplace of college football.
08:54A lot of disrespect.
08:55That's the problem is.
08:56Yeah.
08:57A lot of disrespect.
08:58A lot of disrespectful people come from New Jersey though.
09:01You know, we, we, we're not afraid to talk, call how we see it.
09:04Straight shooters I like to call.
09:05Well that's how I, that's how I got my reputation.
09:08My career started basically ripping New Jersey Transit.
09:12Yeah, yeah, I think we can rip that.
09:14I agree with you.
09:15New Jersey Transit is tough.
09:16I mean, New Jersey Transit, it's been a legacy of just failure.
09:21You grew up taking New Jersey Transit?
09:22Like what was your issue with it?
09:24Well, yeah, I grew up taking, I didn't learn how to drive until I was 28.
09:28So I was going to a Mets opening day and the trains broke down.
09:34So you relied on the trains every day, everywhere.
09:37Yeah.
09:38So it's, it's, it's terrible.
09:40So now what do you have going on these days?
09:43Okay.
09:44So I, I was actually in the Super Bowl last year for the Niners, had a little side quest
09:49there.
09:50I was semi-retired, left the crews.
09:51Kyle Shanahan calls me, I joined the Niners.
09:54I was in the Super Bowl.
09:55And after that, I was like, you know what, it's time to call it, retired, join CBS, broadcast
10:04and called college football games this year.
10:06Did a lot of UConn games, did some Army, did some Air Force, had a lot of fun doing that.
10:10And I also worked on a, with CBS HQ and do a NFL pregame show every Sunday, breaking
10:16down, breaking down everything we love in football and, and all that stuff.
10:21So it's been a lot of fun.
10:22It's a lot of work, but, but yeah, if you don't leave the game, the game never leaves
10:26you.
10:27I'm a natural storyteller.
10:28I've got a lot of stories.
10:31And I'm a guy that's just fresh off the field.
10:34So what is one of your favorite stories?
10:37One of my favorite stories?
10:39Yes.
10:40Man.
10:41Okay.
10:42Well, I can tell you how I, I started an animal foundation, 5-1-C-3-9-5, right?
10:46It's called RARF, the Ryan Animal Rescue Foundation.
10:49How this started was, when I was in New England, my wife, then girlfriend at the time, she
10:56took a job at an animal shelter.
10:57She was working at animal shelters, sweeping kennels, whatnot.
11:00She was like, you know what?
11:01I need to provide my own things.
11:03I don't want to be known as your whatever.
11:05Very independent.
11:06So she goes, gets a job, works at animal shelter.
11:09So I go in on Tuesdays, that's our natural, our natural off day.
11:12I go in on Tuesdays, go walk the dogs, hang out.
11:15There's a dog in a kennel named Mr. Bingley, and these dogs were not getting adopted.
11:20And you know, it was cold up there, and this was in Providence Animal Shelter.
11:25Mr. Bingley was deaf.
11:27He was, when you walk up to his kennel, he would be facing the wall backwards.
11:31He didn't know people were there.
11:32I'm like, Bingley is never getting adopted.
11:34Fast forward, my wife and I get married, small little destination wedding in St. Lucia, right?
11:41So we're in, we're in there, she wants to do a Trash the Dress wedding shoot.
11:44You're like, where's this going?
11:45Why are we talking about your wedding?
11:46Here, it's going to finish up soon.
11:48So she wants to Trash the Dress, which means I pay a lot of money for a wedding dress,
11:51and she wants to jump in the ocean after we get married to Trash the Dress and get a wedding.
11:55I had no idea why.
11:56I said, whatever, you know, I can't say no on this day.
12:00So after the wedding, we go out, we Trash the Dress.
12:03We're walking through the town of Soufriere St. Lucia.
12:05Tons of street dogs, tons of just wild dogs.
12:08If you go anywhere outside a resort, you know how it can look like.
12:11It's poverous, all animals all there.
12:14So photographer's walking with us like this, and as we're doing the shoot, he goes, listen,
12:19don't give the dogs any food.
12:20Don't pet them because they're not going to let us work.
12:22I said, yes, sir, I understood.
12:24I look over, my wife is on a knee in her wedding dress getting licked in the face by a street
12:28dog.
12:29He goes, oh, that's awesome.
12:30Takes a picture of it.
12:31We move on.
12:32We Trash the Dress.
12:33We go back up to our lovely honeymoon suite, and we're talking like, man, we saw a lot
12:36of animals.
12:37I wonder how we can help.
12:38So we make a donation to them, and then in lieu of taking any type of wedding gifts from
12:42our registry, we had those McCourty twins there we met earlier.
12:46All them, all my NFL friends donate to help Paul St. Lucia for my wedding.
12:50So we raise thousands of dollars for them, whatever.
12:52We don't tell anyone about it.
12:54We go back on our way.
12:55We land after our honeymoon.
12:56I turn on my phone.
12:58That story, that photographer posted that picture and told this story how a football
13:03player came to their country, raised tens of thousands of dollars, and they ended up
13:07taking that dog in that photo, naming it Logan, and it paid for like 60 or 70 animals
13:12spayed and neutered.
13:13Right?
13:14And that story goes viral.
13:15Right?
13:16So now it just starts spreading like wildfire.
13:17And all these people start calling us, texting us, whatever.
13:20How can we help you guys?
13:21How can we help you guys?
13:22So I had to start the Ryanimal Rescue Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit, the day after we came home
13:28from our honeymoon, because the story went viral, just so we can take all the donations
13:33and put them in the right places.
13:34Oh, that's great.
13:35So that's where we started in 2017.
13:37That is terrific.
13:38And I guess it's growing every day.
13:39Yeah, yeah.
13:40Now it's very large, and it's time-consuming, and that's something I'm doing now.
13:45And yeah, so I love, I love, I just love animals.
13:48I always have.
13:49I have three rescue dogs now.
13:50I got a pit bull named Leo I rescued in Boston when I was a Patriot.
13:53He's still alive.
13:54People, he's 12 now, turning 12.
13:56So I've just always been an animal lover and just felt like, you know, speaking for the
14:00voiceless, they can't really help themselves, so we try to encourage people to adopt, don't
14:04shop.
14:05Yeah, adopt, don't shop.
14:07So there we go.
14:08So that's the story right there.
14:09A little long-winded, but I'm working on it.
14:10Oh, it's a great story, though.
14:11It was a great story.
14:12You can't tell those long ones on TV.
14:13No, no.
14:14But it's a great story.
14:15Well, you can take it on a nice little walk.
14:16That's why Frank Walks always works.
14:18And I want to thank you for taking the time, and it was great.
14:23I appreciate it.
14:24Jersey.
14:25My Jersey guy.
14:26Jersey proud.
14:27Keep up the good work, man.
14:28You're doing a lot for health and wellness.
14:29Thanks.
14:30And you're encouraging a lot of people to walk.
14:31Thanks.
14:32I appreciate it.
14:33I appreciate it.
14:34I appreciate it.
14:35I appreciate it.