Originally Posted by
DBR96A
So now Matt Ryan is better than Ben Roethlisberger, huh? Let us do compare their post-season performances...
Completion percentage
60.6% - Ben Roethlisberger
64.8% - Matt Ryan
Advantage: Matt Ryan
Passing yards per game
225.0 - Ben Roethlisberger
208.5 - Matt Ryan
Advantage: Ben Roethlisberger
Yards per pass attempt
7.7 - Ben Roethlisberger
5.8 - Matt Ryan
Advantage: Ben Roethlisberger
TD percentage
4.9% - Ben Roethlisberger
4.1% - Matt Ryan
Advantage: Ben Roethlisberger
INT percentage
4.2% - Ben Roethlisberger
4.1% - Matt Ryan
Advantage: Matt Ryan
TD/INT ratio
1.18 - Ben Roethlisberger
1.00 - Matt Ryan
Advantage: Ben Roethlisberger
Passer rating
83.7 - Ben Roethlisberger
76.6 - Matt Ryan
Advantage: Ben Roethlisberger
Matt Ryan has the advantage in completion percentage and INT percentage. Ben Roethlisberger has the advantage in passing yards per game, yards per pass attempt, TD percentage, TD/INT ratio and passer rating. It's also worth noting that Matt Ryan, since he entered the league in 2008, has always had better weapons on offense than Roethlisberger has.
Michael Turner has 1,411 carries for 6,081 yards, 4.3 YPC and 60 TDs with the Falcons. In the same period of time, Rashard Mendenhall has 547 fewer carries, 2,532 fewer yards, 0.2 fewer YPC and 31 fewer TDs. And the Falcons currently have more reliable WRs (two) than the Steelers have ever had with Roethlisberger (one), plus a Hall-of-Fame TE. Poor Heath Miller was underutilized until Todd Haley arrived in Pittsburgh. And let's not even compare the Steelers offensive line to the Falcons offensive line -- either now or in the last five years -- because it's an insult to the Falcons offensive line.
Great, Roethlisberger has had a better defense, but he's never on the field with them. And it's painfully obvious that the 10 other players in the huddle with Matt Ryan have been markedly superior to the 10 players in the huddle with Roethlisberger in the last five seasons. A good defense can help a QB win more, but good weapons make a QB look better individually, and not only has Matt Ryan been given much better weapons, but Roethlisberger has had the worst weapons of any top-tier QB in the NFL in the last five years.
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