Sh-i-i-i-t!!!!!! I want to play for Rex. What position can a short fat old bald guy play?? I can fill the Gatorade bottles, or pick up the tee after kickoffs.
You've gotta love the Times Magazine. Let's just say that you won't get this kind of writing from Manish Mehta or Rich Cimini. I think that the author hits a very important point that people overlook constantly: the NFL is a copycat league, and the people who win are almost always the ones who break convention. A few years ago guys like Belichick and Dick Lebeau were winning because nobody knew how to stop a good 3-4, and now almost every team in the league runs one. The genius of Ryan's defense is that it's always fluid, but the pressure's always coming so you don't have time to adjust. The copycat tendencies of the NFL are why I'm sure that Schottenheimer and Pettine will have head coaching jobs sooner rather than later, by the way.
That was not so much as an article as it was an autobiography. The best "article" I have seen written on a coach/player in a long long while. I was reading it to my wife while we were waiting in the DR's office. She enjoyed the article. Rex is a funny cat, he makes people that don't watch football like him. For example, my wife was like, "NFW" when I said come watch Hard Knocks the first time as she doesn't like football much (She likes Hockey, I've played it for so long). Within 5 minutes of watching that show, she was a Rex fan. lol Hell she was going to watch it because I told her right before the show she can also watch some gay vampire sex.
I'll bet you two read every post in the pointless Revis Holdout thread, but you can't muster the attention span for quality writing a fraction of that length? ...And that's why it's always a fucking option, ladies and gents!
If the Jets win the Super Bowl under Rex's tenure he's going to be one of the 3 most famous people in NY sports history... period. He's that amazing of an individual. I hope he's with the Jets for the next 45 years.
That's a big reason why the team died at the end. No one wanted to play for that kind of coach. It actually makes me think that every time the Jets make it to January, they are going to play harder for Rex the way they did last post-season.
Yeah, that's why I made the comment about Plimpton. The idea that sports writing can be elevated and witty has died out a great deal in our quick reporting age. Nowadays, most attempts read like Bill Plaschke: trite, cloying, and sad. This was different. Love Rex Ryan even more.
Lol George Plimpton, he was a nut. I remember he wrote a book about hockey. They let that maniac play goalie in an NHL exhibition game. That was in the 70's where most players ate nails for lunch. He was a trip even if he played a closet case in, Good Will Hunting. lol What really bugs me about beat writers nowadays, especially in a mkt like NY, with 4+ papers and another dozen or more covering the Jets, is how lazy they are. I don't mean lazy in the sense they do not work hard enough. I mean lazy in the sense that on any given day each paper has an article on the same freaking player or story. Is it an unwritten agreement? Shit after one article saying the same fucking thing, I can not read another. I suppose that would be the definition of the word trite. They just regurgitate the same shit we hear at press conference. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of English can do that. That is why everyone liked Manish at first. I am not too familiar with Plaschke. However, from your comments he seems like a Cimini and/or Cannizaro type. Thankfully, some of the newer writers like Manish, Vrenas and even Boone (although I do not subscibe to newsday) do not have that negative caustic slant.
I didn't know Rex wrote it himself. /English major strikes again //Not that I wouldn't have corrected it anyway
No, my point with Plaschke was that he attempts to elevate his writing to a level above basic sports reporting...and it comes off as melodrama. He's garbage.
To be fair English is my second language. Geez you can't tell from my posts I destroy the English language?
