Matt Ryan News

Peppers fined for helmet-to-helmet hit
"The NFL fined Carolina defensive end Julius Peppers $10,000 for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan . Referee Ed Hochuli was loudly booed when he threw his flag for roughing-the-passer on the play Sunday, which wiped out Richard Marshall 's interception return for a touchdown early in the first quarter in Carolina's 24-9 win. Replays showed Peppers led with his shoulder, but the NFL determined on Friday that Peppers then hit Ryan in the head, drawing the fine and supporting Hochuli's call."
Will the Chiefs regret not pushing harder for quarterback Matt Ryan?
"Nobody will get rich betting on the career fortunes of young quarterback Matt Ryan by using just two NFL games as a guide. His Atlanta Falcons won their season-opener with Ryan throwing a 62-yard touchdown pass. But mainly he was just along for the ride. Ryan was asked to throw just 13 passes because the running game, which gained 318 yards, did most of the heavy lifting. Ryan looked every bit the rookie last week, throwing two interceptions and seven incompletions before he connected with one of his own receivers. Still, the Chiefs have to be looking at Ryan with some envy today when they play the Falcons at the Georgia Dome. He's far from a finished product, and the third pick in this ..."
Ryan showed some fight
"Think of this game as a big fat cake. Picture Matt Ryan bending down to inspect the delicacy. Imagine his shock when the top layer flies open and up springs a boxing glove to smack Matty Ice on the snoot. Only then does he read the inscription on the icing: "Welcome to the NFL." Every rookie has this game, rookie quarterbacks especially. Matt Ryan got his in Week 2 of Season 1, and for nearly a half it was as bad as Week 1 had been good. Against Detroit, he'd thrown his first NFL pass for a 62-yard touchdown. Against Tampa Bay here Sunday, his first nine passes were incompletions, and two were caught by the wrong team. So addled was the guy lauded for his poise that he actually slung the ..."
Ryan, Turner lead Falcons to win in opener
"After throwing his first NFL pass, Matt Ryan was gliding around the Georgia Dome like he'd just won the lottery. First stop, the end zone to congratulate Michael Jenkins and celebrate with his teammates. Then Ryan, the new face of the franchise and quarterback of the future, ran up the sidelines back to the bench, raising his arms to excite the crowd while taking a few leaps in the air. It was a spectacular way to start his career and help send his team to a 34-21 victory over Detroit Sunday at the Georgia Dome. "I think anybody would get excited in that situation," Ryan said. "I was fired up. Jenks was fired up. That was a good start for us." On the 62-yard touchdown, Jenkins got behind ..."
Ryan will start Falcons' third preseason game
"The quarterback of the future will be the quarterback of the present. Matt Ryan, the first-round draft pick selected third overall out of Boston College, will start Friday's preseason game against visiting Tennessee, coach Mike Smith said. "I talked to Coach Smith about that before and that's exciting to go get out there right away," Ryan said after Atlanta's practice Monday afternoon. "We're going to have a good week of preparation and hopefully play well Friday night." There has been no official decision about who Atlanta's starting quarterback will be when it opens the season Sept. 7 against the visiting Detroit Lions, Smith said. The coaching staff is still waiting for "clarity" among ..."
Falcons rookie Ryan signs endorsement deal with AirTran
"The guy who is supposed to replace Michael Vick as the Falcons' quarterback also will replace him on AirTran Airways' billboards. Matt Ryan has signed a two-year contract with AirTran to essentially succeed Vick in the company's endorsement lineup, AirTran vice president of marketing and sales Tad Hutcheson said. While it remains to be seen how quickly Ryan will take over Vick's old role as the Falcons' starting quarterback, he'll be featured in AirTran advertising - primarily billboards and radio commercials in the Atlanta market - beginning next week. Vick, now serving a 23-month sentence at the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, on dogfighting charges, had an endorsement deal with ..."
Falcons rookie Ryan balances offseason workload
"Since a month before the April draft until just more than a week ago, Falcons' rookie quarterback Matt Ryan has obliged nearly every voluntary request of his free time while tending to every major and minor mandatory detail of his profession. Radio and newspaper interviews between mini-camp workouts, television appearances after offseason practices, public appearances any time the team asked. The No. 3 overall draft pick from Boston College, to put it mildly, has been a busy man."
Matt Ryan ready for the NFL pressure
"His isn't the easiest of situations, replacing a polarizing and electric quarterback in a town divided, trying to resurrect a franchise that has endured the toughest two years imaginable. But Matt Ryan is unfazed by the task. He has Philadelphia to thank for that."
Philly made Matt Ryan tough
"His isn't the easiest of situations, replacing a polarizing and electric quarterback in a town divided, trying to resurrect a franchise that has endured the toughest two years imaginable. But Matt Ryan is unfazed by the task. He has Philadelphia to thank for that."
Matt Ryan deal raises multiple questions
"Matt Ryan has never thrown a pass in the NFL. Never taken a snap or lined up across from Julius Peppers. Now he's being paid like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning... These kinds of astronomical numbers for unproven players are one of the main reasons the NFL owners voted 32-0 to opt out of a Collective Bargaining Agreement they ratified by a near-unanimous vote (30-2) barely two years ago. The deal guaranteed players 60 percent of generated revenue, which turned out to be $4.5 billion in 2007."
Matt Ryan deal raises multiple questions
"Matt Ryan has never thrown a pass in the NFL. Never taken a snap or lined up across from Julius Peppers. Now he's being paid like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. "It's a little disheartening," Tennessee offensive lineman and NFL Players Association president Kevin Mawae told ESPN Radio last week after Ryan, the No. 3 pick in the April 26 draft, signed a six-year, $72 million contract with the Atlanta Falcons. "It makes it tough for a guy who's proven himself to say, 'I want that kind of money' when the owners, all they're saying is, 'Well, you weren't a first-round pick.' ""
Rookie Ryan hears about his rich contract
"Falcons rookie quarterback Matt Ryan took some light-hearted ribbing from his teammates Thursday, the first time they'd seen him since he signed a six-year, $72 million contract. "The guys, everybody is going to give you a little bit of hard time but it's all in good nature," Ryan said. "They all congratulated me and I think we've got good chemistry in the locker room." While the tenor toward Ryan was rather pleasant, some of the reaction around the league to the No. 3 overall pick receiving the most guaranteed money ever for a rookie — $34.5 million — was negative."
NFL's rookie pay scale out of whack
"The ink hadn't quite dried yet on rookie quarterback Matt Ryan's record-setting contract with the Atlanta Falcons - six years, $72 million with nearly $35 million guaranteed - when a couple of NFL veterans chimed in with a familiar complaint: Why all this money for a guy who hasn't proved he can do squat in the league? Tennessee Titans center Kevin Mawae, who is also president of the NFL Players Association, and Miami Dolphins kicker Jay Feely said in a radio interview that Ryan's contract - and the long-standing system of lavishly rewarding top draft picks - turns the whole notion of pay-for-performance on its head. "As a guy who has been in the league for 14 now going on 15 years ..."
M. Ryan's deal is NFL's Exhibit A
"It probably was a coincidence that NFL owners decided to knock two years off their collective bargaining agreement with the players union on the same day No. 3 draft pick Matt Ryan agreed to a $72 million contract with the Atlanta Falcons, but that doesn't mean the two top football headlines of the week were unrelated. Quite the contrary, management has cited out-of-control rookie compensation as one of the main rationales for abandoning the current CBA in 2011, and Ryan's new deal - which guarantees him at least $34.75 million before he plays his first NFL game - conveniently illustrated the point. Of course, anyone with a heart has to sympathize with the NFL, which generated only ..."
Ryan must prove he’s worth the money
"First of all, the Falcons blew it, but not about making Matt Ryan an extremely rich young man on Tuesday before his first breath in an NFL game. The Falcons blew it, because Ryan was the wrong pick at No. 3 overall in last month’s draft. When your situation at defensive tackle is as dreadful as the Falcons, and you have a chance to take the next Warren Sapp, you take him. Instead, the Falcons ignored Glenn Dorsey and grabbed Ryan, the quarterback with the fancy numbers at Boston College. A lot of quarterbacks with fancy numbers in college have bombed as first-round draft picks. In recent years, MOST quarterbacks with fancy numbers in college have bombed as first-round draft picks."
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