ATLANTA – Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan has heard the knocks.
He needs to be flashier. He needs to be more vocal. He needs to be more consistent. He needs to be flashier more consistently.
“It’s fair,” Ryan told the NFL Network, in reference to criticism directed his way, before the Falcons’ 41-14 dismantling of the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday night inside the Georgia Dome.
“[But] in the NFL there is going to be some inconsistent play because there are a lot of good players that you’re going against week in and week out.”
Details, shmeetails. The critics don’t want explanations. They want the Falcons in the Super Bowl. Yesterday. They wonder if the guy they once affectionately dubbed “Matty Ice” for his late-game heroics hasn’t become Matty Ice-Cold when the Dirty Birds need him most.