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Originally Posted by browna
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.
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Seeing as how you broke the play down quite literally, yes I did take it that way.. It was honestly the way you portrayed it, very far off from the metaphorical point you were trying to make
The Matt Ryan contract is certainly ugly, not as ugly IMO as Flacco's or Shaub's, but probably among the top 5 worst of them so far. However, I cant really blame the owner for bringing in a better running back and convincing their hall of fame TE to come back when they were in the Conference championship game. This was a 13-3 team last year and that is a pretty healthy body of work, I would expect anyone to continue to improve their team.
Whether you think the Seahawk's "let them off the hook" or not doesnt matter, they were in fact one game away from a Superbowl and you make it sound like they should have tore it down.
Matt Ryan was the MVP of probably the 2nd best offense in the league behind Green Bay last year, and his stats were almost spot on with Tom Brady's.
Point is, the contract is ugly but Matt Ryan and his contract are not the problem in Atlanta right now