Rex Ryan's big talk started a season of embarrassment for Jets, so Gang Green better finish strong Mike Lupica With the Jets, it always starts and ends with the coach, the coach who has officially made his judgment an issue now, both on and off the field. Now it is a great three-ring circus, having a coach who talks as much as Rex Ryan does, at least until he doesn't want to talk about personal matters. But eventually a bill is presented for this much talk, whether your team plays its way into another postseason tournament or not. Before the season even began, Ryan was saying to every microphone he saw that his team was going to win the Super Bowl. It is the same exact thing he said when the Jets backed into the playoffs a year ago. He even wrote "soon-to-be champs" on an ESPN bus headed up to Foxborough. Then he added this to all his big preseason Super Bowl predictions: "I'm not embarrassed to say that I believe that will happen," Ryan said. "The great thing is we get to prove it soon. That's the beauty of it." So the Jets are supposed to prove it when the playoffs begin. They are asked to prove it despite the fact that they have lost three of their last four games and lose all four if the refs don't miss an obvious pass interference grab at the end of the Jets-Steelers game. It is why nobody wants to hear the Jets coach sound so relieved in Chicago last Sunday, after more on-field weirdness from him - fake punt when he's ahead - that his team had made the playoffs because the Jaguars had lost to the Redskins. As one AFC owner said to me this week, "I'm sorry, but now the same guy who guarantees winning the Super Bowl all the time says his goal was getting into the tournament no matter how the Jets had to do it? I can't believe he gets a pass from you guys on that." Technically, of course, Ryan is on course with all his tough, "Hard Knocks" talk: You do have to make the tournament to win the Super Bowl you constantly guarantee. But as the Jets stumble to the end of another regular season, you wonder what happened to the big, bad, blitzing, bragging team that was supposed to run through the league this season, all the way to the Super Bowl at Jerry Jones' place. There has never been anybody like Ryan around here. I think he has mostly been great fun. He is a great subject. But in the last month Ryan has shown you how fast it changes for you, how quickly the character becomes the caricature. And that is exactly where he is right now, whether he's got his spot in the tournament or not. The problem with running your mouth as much as Rex does is that eventually you put a foot in it. Pun intended. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...d_so_they_better_be_ready_.html#ixzz19sYABma0
"It's a personal matter. I won't discuss it, I just talk about other teams, other coaches, and players' wives, not my own". Now everyone gets to enjoy Jets failures
One Game... When the bus got to Foxborough, they interviewed Wes Welker and gave him his turn at signing the bus. He signed it, "One game at a time." The Patriot style of trash talking might not be as brash and flashy, but it has its moments...
The media wants Ryan to fail, because it would mean hundreds of shit articles about how the guy actually talked about wanting to win a title.
That sounds like the exact opposite of trash talk... what could he have done to sound any less bold: say "We are a mediocre team in transition -Wes Welker"? Sure we have our moments like Brady asking "We are only going to score 17 points?" before the Giants SB, or McCourty and Sanders doing the "Banking Jet" dance after intercepting Sanchez... but they are far and few between, and much more subtle than the Jets style. That being said, I really think that the media takes some pretty mundane comments these days, and tries to sell it off as "trash talk". Freddie Mitchell saying "I don't know the names of the Patriots DBs, but I've got something comeing for Rodney Harrison" was trash talk... it was intentionally disrespecting our players and singling out #37 as a future "victim". Rex Ryan telling the media that he thinks he has the best team is not trash talk in my book. Richard Seymore telling the media that the Raiders would make the playoffs last year was not trash talk. How else could these guys respond without portraying a complete lack of confidence in their team (which would obviously be a whole new headline in itself)?
you make a lot of sense (for a patsie troll). if i wasn't so lazy, i'd scour the internet to find these quotes where rex says he "guarantees" a super bowl this year, b/c i'm sure they don't exist. then, all these jet fans that feel betrayed by his non-existent pre-season promise can shove it.
You don't have to scour the internet. He wrote "soon-to-be champs" on the ESPN bus that visited every team in the preseason and signed it.
They don't. He signed the ESPN bus soon to be champs and that was it. He did manage to get about a million articles written about that one event. Other than that he has said he expects to win a championship every year he is a coach. Such an awful mindset for a coach to have.
seriously does anyone take any notice of the NY media? Lupica / Cimini / Myers / Canifattsio / Fatessca / Serby they are all fucking mumbling idiots. No wonder the likes of Eskenazi were so good in the 90's and are missed.
I think it would be really funny to see what Lupica looked like if we could get him alone with Rex for like 5 minutes. If there was ever a face that I would love to see the shit kicked out of it is Lupica.
Lupica is the cunt who present sportswriters on Espn with the guy with the freaky ears? I hate his pompous take on sports . Why i oughta.........
i know. i knew it, and i read it in your post. guess it depends on how you define "soon to be." this year? 5 years? i didn't take it as a guarantee that the jets would win the superbowl this february. i don't feel slighted.
LOL, I think the intentions of his wording are fairly clear. Really doesn't bother me though... I guess I am more surprised that 20 other players/coaches aren't writing messages along the same lines
Last time I heard about anything Lupica had written was when I was reading Andre Agassi's book. He doesn't like him either. This article is pathetic. May as well be headlined "I Hate Rex Ryan And You Should Too. Because I Say So."
