Matt Ryan not great in the playoffs? Not So Fast
By Joe Beasley
People love to say that Matt Ryan doesn’t perform in the playoffs, well I beg to differ.
Yes, Matt Ryan is 4-6 in his ten career playoff games, but exactly how many of those are his fault? If we look at his six losses in the playoffs, there is only one loss that I can honestly say looks horrible (that horrible 2-24 game against the Giants). In the other losses, he either played well enough for them to win or damn near incredible.
Most Falcon fans don’t want to look at the fact that in every playoff game the Falcons have played since Ryan became the starting quarterback, the defense has allowed 20+ points in each game except for one (10-15 loss to the Eagles in 2017.)
Those teams he lost to by the way, they all went on to play in the Super Bowl and 4 of those teams ended up winning the Lombardi Trophy.
Stats wise, Ryan doesn’t look too bad. If you take his numbers and convert them to cover a 16-game season, he would have 32 touchdowns, 4,275 yards passing, and a QB Rating of 100.8. This would be on par with some of the best seasons that Ryan had had in his career so far.
None of this excuses Matt Ryan from making some bone-headed mistakes because he has. I had a friend say that sometimes, it seems as if the moment might be too big for him at times. I can somewhat agree with that. This doesn’t mean that people can so easily call Ryan trash or a bum. I can name quite a few real like bums that have won a super bowl just because they were in the perfect situation (Joe Flacco, Trent Dilfer, Jeff Hostetler).
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Mark my words, Matt Ryan will deliver a super bowl to the city of Atlanta because he is great in the playoffs. Peyton Manning is an all-time great and he didn’t win a Super Bowl until his 2006, his eighth season in the NFL. Give our boy some time and a great team (health wise…knock on wood) and Matt Ryan will shut all of your mouths up.