Your blasphemy of Mike Carey and Mike Carey’s mustache will be the doom of us all.

To me, it goes to Matt Ryan. No turnovers, clutch plays, he clearly moved the ball when the calls put the ball in his hand. +70% completion percentage, 2 TDs, and he chased down Eric Weddle, and might have caught him if not temporarily mesmerized by Mike Carey’s mustache. Oh, okay, he did knock that sucker over. I tell you what he probably took out every bad call on him in that one hit.

Matt gizflippen Ryan for MVP. For MVP of the League. And OROY.

Matt Ryan definitely gets the game ball for this one, and I agree he should get consideration for the league MVP.

I do not think you gave nearly enough praise to the Falcons defense, San Diego came in averaging 342 yards of offense. The Falcons held them to 201 yards of offense. Philip Rivers has a QB rating of 100.5 for the season, and we held him to a 70 rating with a paltry 4.96 yards an attempt. That was probably our best defensive performance against a team with at least a pulse on offense.

This is not to even mention that all of San Diego’s points came on Falcon’s turnovers. This game should not have been nearly as close as the score indicates. We probably should have won this game by 3 touchdowns. Great game!

if the Falcons make the playoffs, I have to say League MVP should go to Ryan despite his status as a rookie. We’re all pretty sure he’s a lock for the Rookie award (except Don Banks, who thinks the sun rises and sets in Joe Flacco) but if our Birds get in on the playoffs, I’m going to place the praise squarely on Ryan’s shoulders. Without him, we would not have won yesterday, or for that matter, the Bears game. That’d be two losses and a missed playoff chance should we be lucky enough to get there.

But as far as the game went, I’ll hand the game ball to Babs for letting Rivers know that a resign is a motivator to play better not worse.

I find it amazing that we could be looking at a sweep of the honors…

Coach of the Year: Smitty!
Rookie of the Year: Ryan!
GM of the Year: Dimitroff!
Owner of the Year: Blank!

Peter King currently has Matty Ice at #2 on his MVP watch. Yesterday’s un-Falcons-QB-like game lifted the Ice Man to #8 in the NFL in QB rating (91.2) I wonder what the record is for highest rookie QB rating. I’ll have to get on that. He also has over twice as many TDs as INTs, a phenomenal stat for a rookie. Joe Flacco is doing very well in Baltimore, but #2 is #1 in the Rookie of the Year race. Flacco and Chris Johnson are having great rookie years, but what Ryan has been able to do for the Falcons, the way he has far surpassed anyone’s expectations and turned this franchise completely around, is extraordinary. If Disney wrote a movie about a rookie QB changing the direction of a team as terribly in the dumps as the Falcons were, people wouldn’t even go see it because it would be too unbelievable. Now the only question to ask is, who plays the lead in Disney’s forthcoming ‘The Ice Man Cometh: The Matt Ryan Story’?

But I think the Burner should be getting some MVP love here as well. Third in the NFL in rushing yards (at 1208, trailing Portis by only 20) and tied with Lendale White for the TD lead with 13 (but with over twice the rushing yardage of White). He also has 6 100-yard games, including yesterday’s bruising performance on the road against the team that let him ago and against the back he played behind for 4 years (and outrushed by 96 yards). I told you, they shoulda gave that man his money. But he got something much better; he took their soul instead. He knocked them out of the playoff race (unless the win out and Denver loses out…neither of which is remotely possible), and hopped back on the plane to Atlanta to begin preparing for his next victims in the NO.

What a great win. If only the Aints and the Whackers had done their jobs yesterday. Drew Brees for MVP? Ha.

Rowdy Roddy White now leads the NFL in receiving yards. Houston’s Andre Johnson trails by 14 and plays tonight, so let’s all pull for that Jags D to stuff Johnson all night. Maybe he’ll get a cold or something and miss the game. But for 1 day at least, Roddy White sits atop the NFL receiving charts. Life is beautiful.

Ryan was awesome, Burner was pretty good though he got stuffed quite a few times, and I think the fumble call was total BS, but you have to give the MVP to the defense on this one. The offense played very well aside from turnovers and more red zone woes, but despite us giving SD every chance in the world to take this game, the defense continually said hellz no to that and swatted the Chargers back in the face. If SD had been able to do anything at all on offense we lose this game due to the turnovers, but the defense was lights MFin out, and that is why we celebrate victory. The key stat, all 16 of their points were off of turnovers, as in, the defense did not let them legitimately drive the field the entire game. I think Rivers went like one and a half quarters without completing a pass. Go D.

In addition, we have to nip these mistakes out of here, without the mistakes this would have been like the Raiders game, it should have been something like 35-3, but turnovers kept them in this. Cannot keep making these mistakes, it will get us eventually.

I just read this on the ESPN blog network, and I think it shows that these Falcons are moving in a great direction:

This was the 84th game in the Falcons history where the Falcons had turned the ball over three times. The record in the previous 83 games, 0-83.

Just shows that Mike Smith, Matty Ice, The Burner, and The Bend but don’t break Defense are taking this team in a good direction…..Go Falcons

I don’t really get angry at referee’s often particuarly this year…but this game I was very angry. Just in the spotting of the ball the chargers got spots that IMO were extremly generous. I don’t expect any calls to go our way against New Orleans next week eithier.

From The Mile High Report

The way the team never quit in the face of adversity impressed me. There were SO many reasons for them to get down (some self-inflicted), yet they always hung in there. Not many young teams show such maturity, San Diego is much better than their record. This game will help us somewhere down the road. Go Falcons!