Here at Falcon's Eye View, I your humble blogger am going to try to give you a different point of view from what you see from the rest of the internet/media. This first vol. I am going to try to give you a different view of Matt Ryan (MR2) or beloved QB that has recently come under fire. Is Matt Ryan the best QB to ever grace field? No he is not but that's nothing new. Is he better than a lot of other QB's that play the game on the NFL stage right now I say yes.
Do you honestly think right now, today, that teams like Philly, Huston, San Fran, Cleveland, and the Jets wouldn't jump at the chance to have MR2 on sundays? I mean with his career 64.3% passing avg. 202 td, and 32,757 passing yards. These aren't chump stats, other analyst want you to believe than Ryan threw an Int. every other pass but last year, when he only threw 16 Int. which is one lower than his career high of 17 2yrs ago. Now 4 of thoses INT. came in the red zone and that's no good period, but its not like every single throw in the red zone was a turn over.
Now keep in mind I am not saying MR2 is in the same class as Tom Brady or even those pains me to say it Drew Brees, but he is not Brian Hoyer or Geno smith. In the NFL you have tiers of QBs with guys who carry a team no matter what lvl of talent they have on the offensive side of the ball. Guys who with a decent lvl of talent on there side can do some great things like win a super bowl. Then there are guys that have to be pulled along by world beaters to get anything done aka. Trent Dilfer. Matt Ryan is in the biggest of these tiers which is the middle tier, where guys like Stafford, Cutler, Newton, and Wilson stand. What I am saying is that I only see 2 to 3 QBs in the top lvl, 4 to 5 guys in the very bottom and the rest are in the middle. The middle is a fine place to be, because in the middle is where you need an entire team to make it happen. This is why I love football more than any other sport. In football every member is truly important. Defense, special teams, and offense, coaching staff makes up an important part as well. With out all of this working together at the same time your going to have a tough road to hoe.
When Russel Wilson went on his super bowl run he had the legun of boom on the other side of the ball. They on a regular basis gave him a short field to work with and when you got a running back like Beast Mode running the rock that job is even easier. All you really have to do at that point is not lose them the game by throwing a pick or 4. Same thing with Cam Newton, unbelievable talent but he need a tough as nails D to get him to the big dance. When he ran into a tougher defense than his own in the super bowl you saw what happened. In the panthers only two losses last year it took the other teams D making Cam look human for the Panthers to lose.
In 2012 Ryan had a good o-line and an average defense and the Falcons almost went to the super bowl. The following year in 2013 and 2014 the o-line was ravaged with injuries and the defense took a step back both years. Guess what in, those years the team turned sub .500 seasons. This goes to show that MR2 is not Tom Brady who wins that division with street free agents and low round draft pick, but what this does show is that with decent talent around him Matt Ryan can win and win in clutch ways. For example the beginning of this season we started 5-0 and two of those wins were come from behind 4 quarter wins.
Has Matt Ryan always made the best decisions? In short no, in long given what he has had to work with I would say he as done a good job. I can say this because we as fans don't know the whole story and never will. We don't know what goes on between MR2 and Kyle Shanahan or him and his linemen. Its a team game people it takes all 53 players and all the coaches to be on the same page all game to pull it off. So I say give him a chance, this will be year 2 under a new O.C. running a system that is not really great for our QB but I have faith that he is smart enough to adjust. I might be proven wrong and Matt Ryan will go down league history as just another Quarterback for just another team, but I think given the right amount of talent he can go down in history as much more.
source for stats: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/RyanMa00.htm
