Matt Ryan's Three Year Progress Report

[Peyton]

(02-08-2011 10:25 AM)Swift Is a Die Hard Wrote:  thats fair man ..

I love Ryan I truly do but I think our fan base is falling into that Vick (zone) of thinking the QB can do no wrong and all the excuses are starting to come out that what pisses me off. I will say 80% of our fan base actually believes that Matt Ryan is a top 5 QB and is better then Rodgers ..I wish some of our fans come back to a place we like calling being REALISTIC ..

1)OC
2)Lack of wrs
3)oline
4)etc

Now do I think Ryan would be better suited for another scheme.......YES
do i think Ryan needs a play making wr in slot........YES

but with that being said we do have a pro bowl wr, rb, te ..That is plenty to be successful and be successful when it matters most.

If I had to Rate NFL QBS in this league

1)Brady.........
2)Manning......(cant help the fact that he has not played up to his level in post season)
3)Aaron Rodgers
4)Drew Brees
5)Big Ben
6)Phillip Rivers

Those are the upper echelon of QBS ..

7)Eli Manning...he helped lead his team to a super bowl and now putting up numbers but cant put him on that level of QB even though he has a ring over Rivers.

Next Level of QBS

Ryan, Josh Freeman, Flacco, Matt Schaub,Cutler ...........all these QBS are grouped together for me...Flacco/Sanchez have playoff wins and regular season success while Ryan has been a winner and putting up great stats has yet to lead us to a playoff win ..

now if thats not fair I dont know what is

I mostly agree with your analysis, bit I don't know if there is any value to the fans being "realistic".

Hey, there is something that is going on in this league that I've said time and time again and people still haven't fully figured it out - there are more GREAT QBs in this league right now than there has ever been in the history of football.

For that reason, you are going to have guys who probably would have been top 3 guys in many other eras who can arguably not even crack the top 10 right now. Maybe Ryan is one of those guys.

Still, Ryan has a pretty good intangible. I think he is way ahead of similiar players with regards to leadership at a young age. And that is the reason he has so many wins.

He's got some things to improve in his game for sure, and there are a few peices missing. Maybe we'll get there, and maybe we won't, but I am sure everybody is going to keep doing their part.

The franchise is in good shape. Better shape than ever. That's all i can really ask for.