Falcons: New Matt Ryan Contract: What Does He Deserve?

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Matt still has 1 year on his contract. They're only going to re-do it out of courtesy. And Matt will go easy on it because he's already been making great money and his main goal is to win and he understands he has to surround himself with talent to help get there and that costs money too. He's not Brees. He won't handcuff the cap by holding out and demanding a certain number. He's just not like that.

Right now, he's in the 5th year of a 6 year $66 million initial contract (so $11 million/yr average). http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/atlanta-falcons/matt-ryan/

Since he still has a year on this contract, I see them giving him a new 7-year cap-friendly deal some time this offseason. Something like $110 million over 7 years. That's an average of $15.7M/yr. And it may even be less than that if he decides to really make it even more cap-friendly. I can see him even agreeing to 7 years at $100 million. That's still $14.3M/yr, which is still a 30% bump in pay and a pretty long contract.