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Originally Posted by DropIt
I wont claim to know why or how the Falcons fell apart the way they have, but I really dont think Matt Ryan's scrambling ability has any bearing on their 2-8 record.
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You're really going to take that literally?
Overall commitment and desire to want to win and not take the easy way out. Now that he's gotten paid, some of those instincts and desires have taken a backseat. Happens to a lot of guys.
The worst thing for the Falcons last year was Seattle letting them off the hook in the last minute of the divisional game. The way Seattle was rolling they may well have been a favourite in Sf the next week. Instead, Atlanta gets Sf at home and gets to the same point they got at the end of the game, but this time didn't execute. Then Sf missing out on a SB win by one play, Atlanta and their (more money then knows what to do with) owner figures they're one play away themselves from a SB win, so focuses on offense only and extends the QB and makes him second highest paid player. Brings in a guy like Jackson who did less then nothing with this type of offense, convince Gonzalez to come back, and forget mostly about improving th defense with thier now limited cap space.
Put it this way, if they had lost in the divisional round as they probably should've last year, they would've thought twice about the Ryan contract extension that quickly, and looked deeper at as to why they went one and done in the playoffs.