{"id":1171,"date":"2008-04-26T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/04\/26\/matt-ryan\/"},"modified":"2008-04-26T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T19:26:59","slug":"matt-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/04\/26\/matt-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, adding a \u201cface of the franchise\u201d and merchandise mover won out.\u00a0 Time will tell if this is a good move, but the kid sure looks happy to be with the Falcons.\u00a0 For Ryan, life is good.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Falcons draft is up in the air.\u00a0 There should not be any reason for them to trade back into the first round, so those three second round selections are key to what happens next.\u00a0 Rebuild the offensive and defensive line with those picks.<\/p>\n<p>I have mixed emotions on Ryan.\u00a0 On the one hand, we do need a QB of the future.\u00a0 On the other, Ryan cannot win without a competent team around him.\u00a0 What if he is a bust?\u00a0 What if he talks Atlanta to the Super Bowl in two or three years?<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, adding a \u201cface of the franchise\u201d and merchandise mover won out.\u00a0 Time will tell if this is a good move, but the kid sure looks happy to be with the Falcons.\u00a0 For Ryan, life is good. The rest of the Falcons draft is up in the air.\u00a0 There should not be any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/04\/26\/matt-ryan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matt Ryan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}