Matt Ryan had one of the greatest losing efforts in NFL history There were plenty of reasons the Falcons lost their game against the New Orleans Saints. Matt Ryan was not one of them.Ryan has gone nuts the last two weeks
Logan Paulsen Jersey 2019 , accounting for nine touchdowns in eight quarters. Against a completely overmatched Saints secondary, Ryan was firing on all cylinders, repeatedly nailing downfield throws to pick up big gains for Calvin Ridley or Julio Jones. It was his best effort through the air all year, and one of the better efforts of his career in a loss.Naturally, it was also one of the best efforts in a loss ever. Such is the lot of Matt Ryan.Ryan finished the day with zero turnovers, 374 yards passing, and five touchdowns. He did that on a day where the ground game (outside of Ryan) accounted for about 40 yards
Qadree Ollison Atlanta Falcons Jersey , and the offensive line let him absorb a coupe of brutal sacks. Painfully, Ryan and Tony Romo are the only two quarterbacks in NFL history to put up 140+ passer ratings in a game and lose twice. The other time was a game I’m not going to bring up right now because I’m in a tough place emotionally, but let’s just say watching the defense erase a great offensive performance was tragically familiar. This time, it had everything to do with injuries and failures of execution, rather than simple exhaustion.The encouraging note here is that Ryan is certainly not cooked, as some suggested after Week 1, and appears willing and able to keep the Falcons in games the rest of the way. The question is whether the defense can get healthy enough (or play well enough) to ensure the Falcons win them. The Falcons rebounded from blowing the biggest lead in a Super Bowl by making it to the final eight
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Qadree Ollison Atlanta Falcons Jersey , and at Buccaneers remaining on the docket, that will be a tall task. Assuming that the Falcons can’t win five in a row (and/or don’t get the help they’ll need to sneak in with nine wins), plenty of questions will be asked about the future of the franchise that will continue the streak of Super Bowl hosts not playing in the game.Coach Dan Quinn and G.M. Thomas Dimitroff have contracts that run through 2022. Although buyouts would be peanuts in comparison to the cost overruns at the team’s two-year-old stadium, not many owners pay highly-compensated employees to not work for four years. And so the question becomes whether offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian or defensive coordinator Marquand Manuel (or both) will take the fall.Sarkisian became an outside-the-box choice to replace Kyle Shanahan after Super Bowl LI, and persistent red-zone problems won’t work in Sark’s favor. And so the question becomes whether the Falcons can identify an offensive mastermind who will get the most out of quarterback Matt Ryan and receiver Julio Jones.As owner Arthur Blank ponders that possibility, the bigger question becomes whether to simply make that offensive mastermind the head coach, swapping out a defensive coach for an offensive coach in an age of high-powered offenses. Especially in light of the reality that any offensive mastermind who would fix the offense would then become a candidate to be whisked away by another team as its head coach
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