By Bob Blalock
Every National Football League playoff team but one lost its last game of the season. But no last game was as soul-crushing as the Atlanta Falcons’ 34-28 overtime loss to the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl in February – a game Atlanta led 28-3 in the third quarter.
So how do players get past such a game? For Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, the reigning NFL Most Valuable Player, returning to work was a huge help.
“It’s obviously tough when you make it that far and you don’t come away with a championship. It’s disappointing,” Ryan said Monday during a visit to Birmingham. “I think myself and the rest of my teammates when we got back to work as a team in April and started to focus on what we wanted to accomplish in 2017, starting that process really helped us.“I feel good about where we’re at. I’m optimistic. We’ll learn from that experience we went through, but hopefully it’ll make us better and tougher as we move forward,” said Ryan who is entering his 10th year in the league, all in Atlanta.
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