Matt Ryan isn't letting any outside doubts affect his mindset heading into the playoffs.

When the Atlanta Falcons quarterback made his weekly appearance on Atlanta's 680 The Fan radio Tuesday, the MVP candidate was bound to be asked about his 1-4 all-time postseason record and getting the playoff monkey off his back. His lone postseason win was against Seattle (30-28) in the 2012 divisional round. There's a chance the No. 2 seed Falcons could meet No. 3 seed Seattle in the same scenario following this week's bye.

"We've won in the playoffs before, so I don't really worry about that too much," Ryan said of the negative chatter. "For me, it's about, 'How do we get the one win next week, whoever it's going to be against?' Putting any more pressure on yourself other than that is a waste of time.

"I think that's probably one of the things that I've learned: that all the extracurricular pressure, the outside noise, the stuff that people talk about doesn't make a difference. What makes a difference is how well we play. And in order to play well, I think we need to practice well."

The Falcons closed the regular season on a four-game winning streak. In those games, Ryan had 11 touchdowns and no interceptions. Speaking of interceptions, Ryan had just seven picks the entire season while throwing a career-high 38 touchdowns. Such a ratio symbolizes the individual statistic Ryan was most proud of this season, not his league-best passer rating (117.7) or yards per attempt (9.3).

"To me, it's probably turnovers," Ryan said. "I think limiting our turnovers, me specifically, that was the point of emphasis in the offseason. It's something that Dan (Quinn) talks about every day we're in the building. It's all about the ball. That's one of his things."

Ryan had nine total turnovers, including two lost fumbles. Last season, he had 16 interceptions and five lost fumbles. Four of those interceptions were in the red zone. This season, Ryan had just one red-zone interception and 23 red-zone touchdowns.

"For me personally, to have taken care of it the way that we did this year -- and for us as an offense, I think we had 11 turnovers on the year, which is really, really good -- I thought that was really important for me and really important for our offense," Ryan said.

The Falcons finished this season tied for fourth in the league with a plus-11 turnover margin, behind the Chiefs (plus-16), Raiders (plus-16), and Patriots (plus-12). All four teams are in the playoffs.

The Falcons and Patriots each had a league-low 11 turnovers.