With Ryan The Colts Are trying To finish What They Started With Luck.

Marty Ice Gives The Colts Another Line on the Quarterback Chalkboard And No Solution To The Problem.

Matt Ryan Wants Us To Know, “He’s Still Here.”

In 2019, Colts Andrew Luck Walked out Of the Light And Into The Unknown. Out Of The Rickety Security Of The NFL And  Into The World Some Of League Fear To Tread. Luck, In The Prime of His Glowing Career, Retried. In Whats Consider one of the Most Confounding Moves In The History Luck Bid Farewell; Blindsided.

The Only Thing Luck Left Fan With, Fury and Thoughts Of What Could Have Been.

In Indy, Luck Wrote an In His Play Similar To His Press Releasee That August Day.

At 22 Years Old, Andrew Luck Landed In Indy In part Of The Most incongruent Reshuffling Of the Hands Of  Fate. The Colts shining through the Decades With Peyton Now Creep To Through to the End Of The Sheriffs Era. Due To a neck Injury Peyton Manning Stood Along The Sideline with Melonhead slumped as The Colts Rounded Down The trek to Football ineptitude. In some games, you Could See the Intensity In His Face. He wanted to be out there. He Knew He Could Have Made that Throw. Ok, that interception was, Unavoidable, But Gosh, He Should Have been playing.

Somewhere Andrew Luck has A ball In His Hand And Preparations In front Of Him.

The 2012 Stanford Grad Became The The First In A Long List of Quarterback “Formalities” To Make A Run on The Number One Pick. I Know What The Word “Formality” Mean Because Of Luck.  The Son Of A Football Player and Current Executive Oliver luck, Andrew Luck Finished His Three Years at Stanford as the Quintessential Wunderkind. The Unquestioned Successor To Peyton Manning. 

No One Questioned Whether He Was a Day One Starter Or If He Had The Wit To Run A Pro Offense. Luck Coach By Former Colts Quarterback Jim Harbaugh At Stanford Would Immediately Give Indy  Another Marksman At Quarterback For another Decade Plus. Before Manning brandished the Horse Shoe, Jim Harbaugh Held The Colts Spots Through the Mid-Nineties. Now The Nerves Struck On Manning And Then Troubles Came. Quarterback Shuffling.

Dan Orlovsky(The Sometimes Agreeable ESPN Anchor), Keri Collins (Lead The Titans To 13-3 in 2009), Curtis Palmer ( Who, Wait.. who?) Indy Finished With More Quarterbacks as Starters Than Wins, 2-14. Inherited Luck As Consolation Prize For Their Misery.

Displacing one hall A Famer and Replacing him With Another Projectable can’t miss Talent. Indianapolis, The ENVY of The League. Even The Redskins, Who Faithful Drafted Their Quarterback Of The Future at Number Two, Would Have Preferred Luck.

Quarterbacks Never Come Out Of College Ready to Go

But Fate’s Fortunes often Come With Conditions. Luck The Brightest Mark On A Career That Dim at The Speed Of Light twilight, His Comeback Player Of The Award He Took Home In 2018 After Missing The Entirety Of of 2017 With A Shoulder Injury. Luck had The Best Statistical Season On His Career. He is still only 29 Years Old, Approaching His Peak, And Tom Brady is  Setting New Norm For Longevity

Had It Been Too Bright? Had Its Unseazing Glare Claim Another At The Peak Of His Rise? The Former Number 1 Overall Pick Didn’t Need The Light To Expose The Cracks Already Present And Rippling Thornfully Through His Body. But Maybe UNDER a More Scrutinizing Light, The Revelation Came. Each Day with Every Throw, Every Step,  Every Yard. Every Wince, Grimaced. The pain Became more Prevalent. Less “Our” More “Ahh.” More Recurrent More Recovery. Or Just More.

Under the Mental Light, Luck Couldn’t sustain The Inexorable Road To Recovery. The Constant “Reasoning” And Concern Of Getting  Back To Full Health. Like a Student With Loans sacrificing their Youth To Work Their Way Back To Financial Equilibrium, Only To Have A Social Cataclysm(Pandemic/Economic Crisis) Snatch It Away. Before Taking To Meal Planning and SStimulatesFor Double Shifts at the Diner. The resilience wears down like a rotor with no brake pad, and Luck Had Broken Down.

“ I’ve Bee Stuck In This Process,” Luck Stated. “It’s Taken The Joy Out Of This Game[for Me].”And The Colts Had To grip A New Season Bereave Of A Quarterback.

After Luck Retired, The Colt’s Dream Of trailing another great arm into glory fizzled. The Retirement blindsided the Colts, bUt The Pain And rumination didn’t end there. Over The Years, The Organization Assembles A Competitive roster To compliment Luck’s Brilliance.

The Retirement  Deprived  Them The Opportunity To Pair Luck, A  Battered Blaster,  With One Of The Best Offensive Lines In Football But Also Came two Weeks Ahead Of The Season Opener With Luck Slated To Start.

Back In 2019, The NFL’s Quarterback Pool Of Quarterback Didn’t Offer Much In Solace For Teams In Signal Caller Purgatory. Uninspiring Bridge Quarterbacks Like Mike Glennon And Brock Osweiler  Still Demanding Premium Contract Value Let Alone Attention. The Dregs Of a Pass Happy League and Their Past Prime Passer Littered Over a parched Drop back; no Place For A Fan Base.

The silver lining For The Colt, Not The  Talented Team The Assembled From The Destruction of Luck’s Down Years, Unlike The Days Without Manning, They Adjusted To Playing With The Star At The Position. Another Coat Of Luxury.

IN 2017 Season Mishap Would Strike the Shoulder of Luck. The Colts Played  Half The Season without Him in 2015. In those days, He’d Dawn The Expressions Of Peyton Manning, Frustrated And Out Of Function. They Blostered Their Backup Unit With Jacoby Brissett, Given Them The Depth That Quarterback The Prospective Quarterback Purgatory Couldn’t Challenge.  Brissett fills in for an Injured Garropalo, Who Filled in For An Suspended Tom Brady the Year of The Deflate-gate. He played Well And Demonstrated strong-arm talent that convinced the pats to draft him in the Third Round.

In 2017 Brisset Would Replace Andrew Lucks Incumbent Scott Palzen, And The Season Go As Good As You’d Expect. The Colts Finished 4-12 And Prepared For Lucks Return. And Impending Retirement.

Brisset Would Take Over Full Time. Earn A New Two-Year Deal In The Process of Doing so. All From The Credit Of How He Played 2017, finishing with 3098 Yards.

As A complete Time Starter, Indy Supposed more could be in the works for the 27-year-old. The season went as well as you’d expect. The NC State Product started 15 Games Won 7. Eighteen Touchdowns and Six Interceptions. But the Colts didn't see enough, Or Maybe at The Saw Enough. The Inaccuracy, Spot Throws, Limited upside, and Poor Decision Making. Brissett Finished the Season With A 88 Passer Rating, But The Colts wanted a more Stable Long Term Backer at The Position.

When A Former AFC Rival Became available, the Colts Made a Swing For the Fences. Philip Rivers Manned The Chargers For Over Sixteen Years. In the  Greatest Era Of The Quarterback, He Walked Into The Twilight, Having to Position his Name Amongst The Best Passers. But at 40-ish Years Old, The Chargers Were Done With Rivers Erratic accuracy Trouble Decision Making, Unfaithfully Quick Release(Cringe), Tethered To his Staggered Decline In His Upside, and  Coupled “incredibly immobile” Station InThe Pocket.

But River Produced Moreover. Completing 68% Of His Passing. Twenty-Four (24)touchdowns, 11 interceptions, and a passer rating of 97.0 during all 16 starts in the 2020 campaign. He Put The Colts Back Into The Playoffs. Nevertheless, The Colts Knew They Had No Future In Their Present Standing. Rivers desired to play another year with the Colts. With Brady Still, Gunning The League at A High-Level Rivers Could Still Play, In A Tier Below That Of Brady’s As He Always Did.  He had Already Settled Into Indy. But the Colts Brass Wanted To Go In A Different Direction. More Boom Or Bust Less Flat And Predictable.

There are too many articles of note that Have Chronicled The Carson Wentz Era and “Experiment” In Indy. I would Be Doing Nobody Any Favors To Enter that Void In Malignant Quarterback Expectation.

Of The Era, Beautifully And Succinctly Said, “It just didn’t work, and sometimes that happens.”

Sure enough, after Indy Traded  Away A First Round Pick for another shot At Staving Off Quarterback Purgatory, they Would Enter this season With It’s Fifth Quarterback At Starter In As Many Years.

Something Eat away At Him.  Something In the air. An aura is surrounding the relationship Between the Quarterback and Team In Atlanta. The Type Of Paranormal “Vibe” Some People Experience That Pretokens rain or money. The “Feel It In Your Bones.” That makes you shudder or pulls your mind far away from the present moment.

Matt Ryan Says He Had A Feeling, He Felt It.

After Fourteen Years In The League, Without A conversation, he Understood That his Time With the Only Franchise he Knew. In The City, He Earns So Much Acclaim At The Heights And So Much Bitterness At The Bottom. The Team That Ryan Secured So Many Late Game Finishes Had No Time For Him.

“There was No Doubt I Would Make The Move.” Ryan Said.

The Falcons Quarterback Entered The Off-season Business As Usual.

As Dictum Of His Contract, Two Years and Boulder Of a Cap Hit To Shoulder, in An Offseason of Caustic Breakdowns For Teams With along Standing Contracts Ryan Remain Near Untrade-able And By Way Of Virtue.

Regardless I Assumed the Team Entered The Offseason Prepared to part With Ryan.

Ryan and The Falcons would presumably Follow The Same Script Next Off-season.  Formalized OTAs, Treatments, Media. Given the Quarterback's Instability around The League, He’d Be There(Possibly)The Year After. A titan Of His time.

By Then, The Falcons Would have His Successor In The Building. But that Would be Two Year From Now. Matt And  GM Terry Fontenot, coach Arthur Smith and De Facto Over Lord Arthur Blank (One Of The Best Owners In The League) Could Sustain Equilibrium For Now. The Falcons, Who Once again Finished as One Of The Worst Teams In The League, had just Seven Wins. Slightly More Than Last Year(4) And It’s Been Few Years Since Their Last Winning season In 2017. Since then, it’s Four Sub-500 Seasons in Row. The Franchise’s Worst  Streak Since The Eighties(‘80s). Even With Ryan At Qb, The Falcons Owned A Roster That’s Strikingly Emaciated Of Talented and Over Budget. That  Before Calvin Ridley Got Suspended A Year. The Team Could Muscle Through The off-season, Approach Ryan With A Proposal To Ease Their Salary Woes. Bridging Their Young Talent, With Functionality Forces Left On The team could help Circumvent The Rebuild. He Restructured his Mighty $48,662,500 dropping the cap hit by $12 million, lowering the Falcons' ceiling, and Giving The Needed Room Under The Cap. Of course, they have a lot of Dead Cap Years To Follow, But They Wouldn’t Have a Quarterback Problem. The Two Camps agreed to terms two Weeks ago.  The Tensity in Ryan’s Head and Heart Diluted Some, But The Feeling Remained.

Then The Report Came The Falcons Were Amidst A Group of TeamS Pursuing “problematic” Houston Texans Quarterback Deshaun Watson.

The courtship sprung fast. The Falcons gave Little Credence To Ryan When They Started to negotiate With AnOther Quarterback Options. Scandalous

Atlanta Pursued soon to be Brown Deshaun Watson To Its End, at One point the Falcons Became the Reported Favorites to land A Hometown Guy. But it would be for Not.

Once the Cleveland deal broke, the Falcons Opened up shop on Ryan, the Only Justifiable Move.

Ryan spent 14 Seasons In Atlanta.  Drafted Number 3 in 2008 In A Mostly Irredeemable Top 5. Ryan One Just Two Quarterbacks Taking In The First Round That Year.

Who Initiated The Trade? The Answer Remains Inconclusive. Ryan Asserts that he Informed the Falcon that he preferred moving in another direction, and they consented to his request.

To Distribute Ryan’s Play and Why Many Have hailed this move as Win For The Colts and Himself, It’s  “White Collar.”  Ryan played quarterback in A Suit. Not literally, That Would Be Cumbersome, But His approach To The game. He’s “Prototype” And Clinical. Game In, Game Out. It’s An Approach That Placed Matt Squared at the 8th all Time In Passing yard Entering the season.

Matty Ice, Possibly The Best Nick Name In Football For The Boston College Eagles Cool Demeanor. He’s Wall Street Cut.

Never “Wowing” Or Surprising and Audience Or a Team, He Just Got The Job And Closed The Briefcase At The Table.

The Quintessential Pro And System regulated Piece To a Team.

I can’t Recall Ever Seeing Matty Outside Of a Suit. Not Entering The Stadium on the Podium. He’s Business. He’s missed Three Games His Entire Career and Just One Since 2009. Miraculous Really For Quarterback Often Anchored To The Pocket.

Like the Rap Group The Migos, From Atlanta, “ He’s Straight To The Point. He Gets Straight To The Straightening.”

And Jim Irsay, Chris Ballard The Group Up In Indy, Frank Reich Pray Matt Brings His Briefcase, Lunch Pin and Leadership To Indy.

The Consummate Professional. A Rookie Of The Year. A Former MVP. NFC Championship. Super Bowl Contender. Barring a Catastrophic Injury, He ’’ll Join The 60,000 Yard Next Season. It's a Hall of Fame Career Highlighted BY The Unforgettable NFC Championship When The Falcon Tore Down The Green Bay Packers.

Now The Tear Down Comes To The Mercedes Benz Stadium. The Falcons Are In The midst Are Entering The Offseason With Four straight Losing Season Behind Them.

“Matt understood there could be a succession plan for us at quarterback because of where we are and where he is in his career.”

Reconstruction would be Under away. Ryan, The Last Foundational Piece, torn Up Out Of Atlanta.

“Sad To See It End” Ryan Remarks To The Host Of Reports Eager The Hear The Presidentially Dressed Quarterback Divulge The Secret This Unforeseen Move. The Colts Staged His Introductory Press Conference At The Indiana Farmhouse. Matt Vows to Remain A Active Member Of The Atlanta Community, But ultimately He’s Where He Wanted To Land.

The Falcon Retrieve A third Round Pick and A Headache Of Cap Situation. The Team is now 40 million In Dead Space.  62 over 3 Years And efficiently The Worst Roster In The League.

“I Still Feel Like I Can Play At As High A Level As I Ever Have.”

How Much  Does Ryan Have To Offer Football? By All Estimation, His Prime Ended Years Back, In Ryan’s Lone  MVP Season. It’s Fair To Assert he Expended All Of His Football Ability Into One Season. Well, More Than One Season, But It Ended There.

That Season Ryan was Second at his Position and Finished With 48 Touchdowns.

Fast Forward. Of this season's 32 regular Quarterback starters(Min. 200 Pass Attempts), Ryan Ranked  Near The Bottom In DVOA By Football Outsider as Well As QBr. DVOA, Defense-adjusted Over Average By Football Outsider. What DVOA Attempts To Achieve As A Statical Model. Grouping Players By Position And Comparing Them value By Value Per Play and Situations On The Feild In Metrics Based On The Results Of The Play. I say “attempt” Not to discredit their Work Which Happens To Be Very Respected in The World Of football, But To Make The Point That Football Plays Out In Nuances that Statistics Simply Can’t Cover. It’s, At Best, a Simplified Representation Of A More Complex Reality.

Ryan Ranked 21st  Below Colts Incumbent Carson Wents, Whom the Colts Couldn’t Wait To Expel From The Organization.

Quarterbacks Play Both custodians and Marshals for Their Offensive Unit by distinction and understanding. The Stats Define A Qb, But The Reflects His Value Beyond The Board. Uplifting and Directing the talent surrounding Them. Over his career, I can’t say I’ve  Ever considered Ryan To Be One of Those Team Propelling  Guys. Of course, thats my opinion, but Ryan never had the “Juice.”  His Best Season Was the Falcon's Most Offensive Talented. Julio Jones, Whom The Colts Could Realistically Peer With Ryan In Indy. The Tony Gonzales Years. Devonta Freeman is one of the best running Backs. Roddy White and the Calvin, as mentioned above, Ridley.

The Falcons Blanketed Ryan with Talent But Never Lift the Falcons Over.

At His Peak, Ryan Played In The Shanahan System, Famous For Scheming Up Throws And Maximizing Quarterback Strengths.

In Indy, He‘ll have another talented group To Work With. Starting with Running Back Jonathan Taylor, Wideout Micheal Pittman, And Tight End Mo-Alie Cox. An Offensive Line Anchored By Guard Quentin Nelson.

Still, at This Stage Of His Career, It’s Negligent To Suspect Ryan To Be The Difference For This Team.

I believe That Thanks To The Manning Luck Succession Pit, the Colts Brass is In A State Of Delusion. The Franchise Seems Enraptured in a Path of least Resistance In The Quarterback Search. Resisting the Obvious Tugs Of the Call For Rebuilding That’s Struck Nearly Every Team In Their Division.