Last week, Matt Ryan raised a complaint about the Super Bowl collapse the Atlanta Falcons suffered that we hadn’t heard before. Kyle Shanahan, then the offensive coordinator in Atlanta and now the head coach of the 49ers, has received more than his share of blame for the aggressive playcalling when a more conservative approach probably would have won them the game.
But as Fooch noted, Ryan talked about Shanahan’s play-calling, and suggested that the plays were too complicated or, at the very least, too verbose in description. Ryan suggested that Shanahan’s play-calling gave them very little time to get to the line of scrimmage and snap the ball.