Butthurt Falcon fans

[Frank Costanza 831]

http://boards.atlantafalcons.com/top.../page__st__120

Looks like they're having a really hard time coming to grips with the fact that Flacco is better than their perennial choker Matt Ryan

[OriginalColtsFan]

Joe > Ryan.

[DJGreg1200]

http://boards.atlantafalcons.com/top.../page__st__120

Looks like they're having a really hard time coming to grips with the fact that Flacco is better than their perennial choker Matt Ryan

Tell them to enjoy watching Joe play in the Super Bowl

[ivanbalt]

I'd love to see Matty Ice go into Denver and NE and win. Falcons were barely 1-1 this postseason and both games were in their dome.

[Steveg85321]

The QB is certainly not the only factor, but when a team goes the whole second half of a championship game without scoring, I don't see how you can call that a big time QB. We've got two guys this year who fit that description, and neither of them is named Joe.

[Aclobat]

The falcon's just fall apart in the playoffs.

[Ravens2006]

Ryan's really been a much better QB in the NFL than I thought he'd be. My gut feeling was that he'd turn out to be a Jay Cutler type... make some highlight reel throws, put up some big yardage numbers and occasionally a bunch of TDs, but too often kill his team with bad INTs. And more often than not, he's NOT the turnover machine.

That said... had the Ravens blown a 17 point lead at home in the conference title game, with Flacco contributing to two crucial second-half turnovers (the INT might not have been all Ryan; the fumble was 100% on Ryan, he wasn't even touched so you can't fault a missed block on the line or a bad snap)... you can guarantee we'd be hearing local and national media / fans collectively destroying him for being inconsistent, getting rattled, failing again on the big stage, etc. Heath Evans would have paid for a half hour show of his own to do it. If the offense was shut out in the second half at home, with a trip to the SB on the line, then Flacco would be getting almost all the blame.

And honestly, Joe (and the offense) had that same game basically in PIT a few years ago. There was a bad INT (poor decision), a fumble on a sack (both Joe and the line take blame there), and a Ray Rice fumble in the open field that helped turn momentum and field position. There was also the now forgotten Boldin TD drop, and Housh dropping a would-be first down that would have kept their hopes alive. But I swear there was more outcry blaming Joe for that performance than there has been towards Ryan this week.

Oh well, in the big picture, the outcry doesn't really matter.

What's funniest to me... only now are mediots declaring Joe an upper echelon QB... but if just one more perfectly thrown pass is held on to just 12 months ago, this exact same "revelation" would have happened a year ago. And the fact it didn't has NOTHING to do with Joe.

[AnonymousTerpsFan]

I like how there's over 6 pages of talk about food. To me, that screams serious denial.

[AFKAR7]

I gotta say I don't get the dislike of Ryan by some Baltimore fans. If the Ravens could have, they would have drafted him that day over Joe. I would have had no problem with Ryan if they Ravens had drafted him.

Doesn't matter now and I like the QB the Ravens have no matter how he played in the SB. I was pulling for a Flacco/Ryan SB.

[Peej7245]

I gotta say I don't get the dislike of Ryan by some Baltimore fans. If the Ravens could have, they would have drafted him that day over Joe. I would have had no problem with Ryan if they Ravens had drafted him.

Doesn't matter now and I like the QB the Ravens have no matter how he played in the SB. I was pulling for a Flacco/Ryan SB.

I'm not sure that the fans here dislike Ryan, but I am sure that they dislike the double standard employed by the national idiots!

Both are good QBs for their teams. However, Flacco's edge in the AFC North is that he has the cannon arm and can throw accurate passes through the kind of weather that shows up for half a year up here.

Ryan on the other hand is a hyper-accurate passer in any dome, but has a history of problems out doors.

[Steveg85321]

I gotta say I don't get the dislike of Ryan by some Baltimore fans. If the Ravens could have, they would have drafted him that day over Joe. I would have had no problem with Ryan if they Ravens had drafted him.

Doesn't matter now and I like the QB the Ravens have no matter how he played in the SB. I was pulling for a Flacco/Ryan SB.

Well of course if Ryan was the Ravens' QB we would like him. You're missing the point. The point is the media slobbering all over the Atlanta QB when the Baltimore QB has a better career going. Ryan is this golden boy QB out of BC while Flacco is like the ugly duckling from U of Delaware; who has the golden goose now? (Sorry about the bad metaphor, but it fits.)

I've always disliked Atlanta sports teams in general because Atlanta is one of the media's anointed hype cities. Baltimore seems to always have to fight for scraps of respect (though our fans are perhaps a bit TOO touchy about it), except for Ray Lewis, whose over-the-top personality forced himself into the spotlight and is consequently overexposed. The media is like that.

I agree about the Flacco/Ryan SB, though, especially since Joe and the Ravens' D would have kicked their butts.