Matt Ryan mercifully came out of Sunday’s game against the Steelers healthy, or at least not “the X-ray revealed something terrible” unhealthy. We take that for granted with Ryan, who has missed very little time over the course of his career, but perhaps we shouldn’t after the beating he took Sunday.
Ryan was sacked six times and generally knocked around by a Steelers defense that was all too willing to relentlessly rush the passer and see what came of it. If the offensive line was holding up the way you would hope they would, Ryan would have likely found himself with the time and confidence to air it out against a lousy Steelers secondary.