Well, hello, I am Matt Williamson. This is the Locked-on NFL podcast. Usually we have our boy

Mike Brenner on on Wednesday, but he is here Tuesday. It's strange week. We're not going to

have a show on Thursday. Mike, how's it hanging? Going great. Happy to be back on. Very good, very

good. Hey, last night was a fun game. One of the most playoff-like games we've seen on a Monday night.

Teams that have some warts, but it sure seems as though the Falcons are getting hot at the right time.

Seattle has some areas of concern, but the stars came out to play. I'm just curious your

thoughts on how Matt Ryan has played of late. It seems that the offensive start, everyone was so

critical of Sark can't figure out, you know, he's not going to be Shanahan. And maybe that's true.

But Ryan's really been a really solid contributor all year long.

He really has. And even of late, I think he's started playing his best football over the last

five or six weeks. Certainly grade-wise, that's been the case. And the biggest thing,

at least in our grading system is the fact that he has protected the ball at the best rate of any

quarterback this year. His rate of turnover worthy throws, so, you know, negatively, you know,

minus one grade throws are lower, is the lowest of any quarterback in the NFL. Now, he doesn't

have the fewest interceptions in the NFL. He's had some bad luck in that regard in terms of tips

and things getting picked, but he is

protecting the ball and doing that well. So, you know, when you're sort of those sort of rates,

the turnover rate throw rates usually tend to bear out better than just plain interception

rates in terms of how many interceptions you have towards the end of the season. So it's been,

just the way he's

been throwing the ball of late is not really surprising. He just didn't have, he just wasn't

as lucky at the end of the year in terms of all the other stuff going on. Yeah, and last year was

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