I have been listening to sports radio in Atlanta for a while now. and i think that the Falcons QB Matt Ryan is suffering form the same thing Tony Romo has. whats is this you say. he was too good too fast, that now he is expected to produce at a high level all the time every game. people/fans have to remember that this dude is a only in his second season. he still is going to grow and hopefully get better. So i say to all my ATL folks chill out let the due play and stop calling for mike vick, deal with the fact that he gone and done here in ATL.
You obviously haven't seen his gf..Romo punched above his weight were as ryan gets a "could do better" grade
i know lol I know alot of people are down on him but the way i see it, his production has still overall increased despite the lack of a run game(throughout the season), we are still 10-1 and will probably still make the playoffs. If he has some flal from grace in crunch time - decemeber and playoffs - then we can talk romo, after all thats what everyone dogs TR about his inability to perform when it matters,
Outside of Atl, I have yet to hear of anyone really dogging Ryan. Most people understand that this kid is still young in his NFL career, but will STILL have a better season than Vick ever had. Vick had a bunch of fans who for some reason can't get over the fact the punk is gone. Those same fans probably wish we still had MeAngelo Hall.
Peyton Manning threw an average of 27.6 TD's and 20 INT's a season in his first five seasons. Matt Ryan is on course this year for 26 TD's and 20 INT's. My memory isn't too clear, but I don't ever remember mass outcries for Peyton to be thrown under the bus, even after five years of doing the same. I can't imagine Atlanta being upset if Ryan turns out to have a Peyton-esque career? On the other hand, Michael Vick in his career with Atlanta averaged 11 TD's and 8 INT's, with around 1,000 yards less passing a season in comparison to Ryan. Does the city of Atlanta really want the Vick era of having their coaches deal with his crapty attitude and trying to work out how to get the best out of him for his whole career?
The Vick era would've been better with more competent coaching staffs (never should've fired Reeves IMO). I feel people give him too much slack and tend to dampen the things he did do for Atlanta (i.e. making us relevant for a brief moment in time), he had virtually no WRs, Roddy was a slacker when he first arrived, and Jenkins is still a joke to this day. Peerless Price? Dez White? Yeah, I don't think Matt would have had the same success last year with them... but that era is over and we now have a better quarterback in town. Matt Ryan will become better as time goes on, people forgot this guy was a rookie last year because of how well he played. The lack of running game personnel is what's hurting him right now, that and he's become a little jittery as of late (Which he'll play out of). No Norwood, we're not stretching defenses out like we did last year by making them contain the outside then rushing Turner up the middle. No Snelling either. He'll be fine once he settles down and stops locking in on Tony G. Get back to the game he played last year, go through your progressions and make the right decisions, and don't be afraid to throw down the field! Even if we don't make a playoff push this season, he and Smith will bring something we've never had before, back to back winning seasons, so I'm satisfied. But beyond that, we have a solid core that won't be leaving for a while (Ryan, Turner, Norwood, White, and Tony's got 2-3 years). If we make some important defensive moves (we need solid LB and CB play and a safety to match DeCoud), this will be a dangerous team for at least the first half of this next decade.
