Falcons troll and torment Russell Wilson in loud Matt Ryan statement

ATLAN💜TA — Matty Ice put his doubters on ice Saturday — for another week, 💜at least.

With a pac♊ked-to-the-rafters home crowd providing a deafening backdrop, the Falcons are one step from the Super Bowl after Matt Ryan directed a convincing 36-20 victory over the Seahawks in the NFC divisional playoffs.

Ryan proved his MVP-worthy regular season was legitimate and flipped the script on a w🐼oeful career playoff record with a near-flawless performance in leading Atlanta to its first trip to 🦂the conference title game since 2012.

Ryan torched Seattle’s seventh-ranked defense in the fi🅠rst ha𒉰lf, throwing for 190 yards and two touchdowns, and ended with 338 yards and three TDs on a 26-of-37 passing line with no interceptions while winning for just the second time in six career playoff starts.

“I don’🌠t pay any attention to that stuff because all it does is take away fro🐻m taking care of your business,” Ryan said when asked about a legion of skeptics, including Brett Favre this week, all focused on his playoff record.

It was an emphatic response from Ryan and the Falcons’ supercharged offense, which led the NFL in scorin𝕴g in the regular season, but garnered few true believers along the way because of Atlanta’s — and, in particular, Ryan’s — 🐼repeated postseason failures.

And the final score could have been worse:🐭 The game enꦦded with Ryan taking a knee at the Seattle 2-yard line.

The capacity crowd of 71,155 in what could be the final game at the Georgia Dome (the Falcons are moving into♌ a new building next door th🦩is fall) had an ear-bleeding response of it own — serenading Ryan with “M-V-P!” chants all afternoon.

Ryan deserved all oಌf it after averaging a preposterous 9.1 yards per pass attempt and c𓃲ompleting passes to eight different receivers as Atlanta simply overwhelmed Seattle’s shorthanded “Legion of Boom” defense.

Ryan also continued what is an incredible individual roll th🌠at has seen him compile a 🦩passer rating of 120 or better in each of the past five games. Ryan’s numbers in that stretch are obscene: a 73 percent completion rate, 1,469 yards, 14 TDs and zero interceptions for a 131.8 rating.

“It’s just amazing 🌼to watch,” Falcons defensive end Dwight Freeney said. “He’s having as good of a year as I’ve ever seen♍, and I’m happy for him because we all know he’s had his ups and downs over the years.”

The Falcons, meanwhile, had no mercy for Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson,✱ even before the game started.

Team officials taunted Wilson🔯 by giving pregame sideline passes to rappers Future and Bow Wow — former boyfriends of the Seahawks quarterback’s wife, singer Ciara, and in the case of Future, the father of her young son. The Falcons’ defense didn’t make Wilson’s day any easier, either.

Seattle opened the game with a 14-play, 89-yard TD march that took almost nine minutes off the clock and added a field goal on its next possession, but it was all downhill for💎 Wilson and the Seahawks from there.

After an early injury to Seahawks guard Germain Ifedi ended in his replacement, Rees Odhiambo, stepping on Wilson’s foot and forcing the quarterback to fall into the end zone for a safety early in the second quarter, the Falcons were off and running to their second pla𝓀yoff win over Seattle in as many meetings.

Wilson was sacked three times and ended up completing 17 of 30 passes for just 225 yards while suffering two interceptions, and one of his two TD passes came in garbage time with🐼 the Seahawks trailing 36-13 late.

“Stuff happens,” Wilson said of the safety. “It’s a crazy game. It was supposed to be a pass play, but unfortunately�𓂃�, it didn’t work out. It’s been a tough season.”

The Seahawks also were their own worst enemy on speciaꦰl teams with holding penalties on three separate kickoff returns and punt returns.

One of those holds — on linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis in the second quarter — proved pivotal 𝕴because iඣt wiped out an 80-yard punt return by ageless former Falcon Devin Hester in the second quarter, when Seattle had a chance to build on a 10-7 lead.

The safety followed soꦆon after, beginning a decisive sequence in which the Falcons followed with a 99-yard TD march for a 19-10 lead and never looked back on the way to avenging a Week 6 loss in Seattle.

“This is why you work hard and put in the time during the offseason and the summer,” Ryan said. “This fee꧃ling right here.”