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So who is better, Kurt Warner or Matt Ryan?
At first glance this seems like a no brainer. It has to be Kurt Warner, right? He is a veteran that threw 30 touchdowns last year. But football can be a what have you done for me lately type sport and Kurt has 4 touchdowns and 4 interceptions, while Matt Ryan has 5 touchdowns and 1 interception.
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Matt also faced Carolina, Miami, and New England, two pretty good defenses and one great defense. In case you have not noticed, …read more

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The Falcons surprised everyone last year with Matt Ryan at quarterback and Michael Turner at running back and winning and winning and winning and then they lost to Dallas. It was a heck of a year. But therein lays the problem.
And then, the iron-clad capper: After 43 years in operation, the Falcons still haven’t had consecutive winning seasons.
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43 years is a long time in anything and even a longer time not to have back to back winning seasons. Can that curse be broken this year? Well, the …read more

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A couple of years ago we wrote them off. It was the Falcons and they just stunk up the place. Then in the off season they picked up running back Michael Turner from the Chargers and drafted quarterback Matt Ryan. So, they picked up a rookie and a backup? What could that mean? It is still Atlanta.
Admit it, we were fooled, the Matt and Michael show made a huge difference and will continue into this year. That is where the Fantasy Football comes in. …read more

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The bar has been raised and it is awfully high right now. The New York Jets fans see Mark Sanchez taking them to the playoffs. Not two years from now, they expect it this coming season. Ryan and Flacco have altered the landscape for rookie quarterbacks and throw in the fact that this is New York and the pressure is on.
Meanwhile, Mark is saying all the right things.
“You can’t promise that you are going to make the playoffs and you can’t promise a Super Bowl win or anything …read more

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Matt Stafford is looking forward to playing for the hapless 0 – 16 Lions. Now how can this be? This can be because Matt just signed the richest rookie salary ever with 41.7 guaranteed. That is a whole lot of moola to throw the brown elongated spheroid.
Now is he worth it, is another discussion.
Matt’s agent says the money should not be such a big deal.
They know, he says, that quarterbacks command a market premium, that in choosing one the team has essentially committed to the player for at …read more

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Let the record show that your humble author, the Squibster, predicted the final playoff victory games for the Cardinals and Steelers and the Super Bowl victory for the Steelers.
Let the record show that those predictions were in hard print before the games were played.
Why is the Squibster making such a big deal out of all this?
NFL Timeout for a Shout out: Just where is Nick Young?
The Squibster was 3 – 20 in predictions his first year of blogging and so pathetic in his second year until the playoffs where he …read more

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Matt Ryan dances for joy
So what are the big stories?
No Plax and still the Giants are first. Solid offensive and defensive lines.
The Titans, rock solid, with LenDale White and Chris Johnson and an awesome defense, they had to hold back on my Lions to keep from doubling their season stats. They are number 2.
Number 3 is the Steelers. If you get a chance to watch their defense, you must do it. They are downright mean and physical! Roethlisberger has a knack for not getting sacked, too.
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The new face of the Atlanta Falcons, Matt Ryan
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One day Matt Ryan is playing my Michigan State Spartans in a bowl game and the next day Matt is inking a contract with the Atlanta Falcons.
The name “Michael Vick” was conspicuously absent.
Atlanta is owned by Arthur Blank, an owner that desperately wants to move on, as they say. It is time to forget the Michael Vick era. What better way than to draft a new quarterback, to give the …read more

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It was such a strange and long Saturday.
2008 NFL Draft day
Only 3 hours for round 1. Last year the NFL draft was over in 6 hours. No receivers taken in the first round. How odd. The fast guys must slow the draft down.
Jake Long
Jake Long officially became a Miami Dolphin. The first draft pick in 2008 for the NFL by Bill Parcells. Big Tuna could not get rid of the pick, so he overpaid a very good young tackle to the tune of 58 million …read more

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Stealing a look at the USA Today Mock NFL Draft that involves 6 USA Today writers and 2 writers from NFLDraftScout.com, we can count which player is picked the most for each team and thus figure out the draft. Well, sort of anyway.
Today there is also going to be a comparison of Matt Ryan and Brian Brohm, the top two quarterbacks in the NFL draft.
My comments are in italics.
Here we go.
1. Miami Dolphins – Jake Long T, UM. 8 votes.
Stayed at UM to get a National Championship, but was …read more