Falcons say Cliff Avril kicked an injured Matt Ryan; video proves otherwise
A. Isaac Following the Falcons defeat of the Lions Sunday afternoon, allegations of dirty play arose from players in the trenches. Of particular note was this little nugget of information: Defensive end Cliff Avril kicked Matt Ryan while he was on the ground injured. A serious indictment, if true.
Here’s several Falcons commenting after the game.
“I had respect for Suh before the game,” McClure said. “But when Matt was on the ground, the things he was saying and the trash he was talking was definitely uncalled for. There are certain things you don’t do. [He said], ‘Get the cart’ and several other things that I can’t repeat.”
Roddy White said, “I lost a whole lot of respect for 90 [Suh] today, and also 92 [Cliff Avril], the [bleep] they were doing when Matt got hurt. That was unacceptable. … Like 92 was kicking [Ryan’s] feet, saying, ‘Get him off the field.’ We don’t do stuff like that. We don’t rally over guys when they get hurt. It was just inappropriate behavior. I mean, ‘Get the cart’? Are you serious? Come on. When you compete, you never want to see a guy get hurt.”
Well, Roddy White, it appears your eyes are deceiving you sir.
As best we can tell, this is the closest Avril came to Matt Ryan.
So unless Cliff Avril has a “go-go-gadget” foot, we’ll just go ahead and call the Falcons liars. And yes, it stands to reason that if they lied about this, they lied about the taunting too.
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