So yesterday I posted one of the more depressing rants of my tenure. It would have made The Cure and Pink Floyd proud. In all seriousness, that is the mood that I am in. Today has been a different story as now my attitude is one of taking action as opposed to sitting around feeling miserable. Usually it takes me a day or two to eventually work through any major funk. It takes the Olsen twins less time to go through a bag of blow. Change is in the air. Change is on it's way. Change is on it's way to my household. It's either me or Sarah Palin's clothing account. I will now move on to another subject for fear that I will lose many of you again by going into a long rant about how insane my life has become.
So is there a fan club that I can join? I am sure there has to be. I was wrong this past April. I begged the porn king that owns the Falcons to draft Glenn Dorsey to shore up a porous defensive line. Instead they picked Matt Ryan with their No. 3 pick and I howled saying that the Porn King had further sent the Falcons further into oblivion. I was convinced that his pick of Ryan would eventually be the final blow from the Ron Mexico saga that would officially end the Falcons franchise and move them to Los Angeles. Don't think no one else thought about it.
The Falcons are now 6-3. Yes, that's right. Six wins and three losses. Their losses have been to Carolina (7-2), Tampa (6-3), and Philadelphia (5-3 going into tonight). I was ranting before the season started that the only game that they had a chance to win was the first game against the Lions. I was right about the Lions as they are now riding Dante Culpepper to hopefully a dream season of the reverse undeafeated 0-16 record. I believed that Matt Ryan would be killed in his first season by a Saran Wrap offensive line, recievers who had concrete for hands, and an over-rated Michael Turner. None of this happened. Today, I finally became convinced that there is a hopeful future for Ryan and the Falcons. I have stopped thinking that these early wins were just a fluke and the Falcons were really not as good as they appear. Last Sunday, the Falcons embarassed the Raiders in the own stadium. It was easy to state that a win in Oakland did not mean anything because the Raiders are truly horrible and they are run by dead guy. I looked further into how they won against the Raiders. Ten yards of passing yardage...for the whole game. 300 yards of offense...in the first half. You have to be good to do that to any team in the NFL. Matt Ryan went 17 for 22 with 220 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions in Oakland. This was the fifth game he would be best be described as efficient. High completion percentage with few to none interceptions. Ryan became 5-0 as a rookie quarterback in Oakland when he completed 60% of his passes. He has shown to be both deadly accurate as well as unshakable. Note the pass in the final seconds against Chicago that set them up for an unprobable and landmark victory. Today, at home in a must win situation against a bitter division rival, he continued his icy efficiency with a 16 for 23 with 248 yards and another two touchdowns with no mistakes performance. That's a 70% completion rate and a two touchdown victory. Ryan has won six straight professional games when his completion percentage is 60% or above. He was 21-4 at Boston College when his percentage was 60% or above. You can now see despite the fact that he did not have video game numbers or a Heisman trophy what the Falcons Porn King minions saw in him. He was scouted by Dimitroff who learned under the masters at the Evil Empire. Their quarterback? Tom Brady. Hmm.
One must also credit to an offensive line that has given up twleve sacks in nine games. This was supposed to be the weak link in the Falcons chain. They have managed to keep Ryan upright for long enough to fire lasers at his primary targets White and Jenkins. The tandem of Ryan and White have become feared across the league. No one believed that this would be the case before the season started. Now defenses have to deal with the two pronged attack of Turner and Ryan. That is more than three quarters of the teams in the league can say. All in all I have become a fan. A fan of Matt Ryan. I believe that he has the goods. I believe that he will be a winner and that's all I can ask for. Oh, except for the fan club I want to join.
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