Rex Explains Why He Didn't Call Timeouts
by John B on Oct 14, 2009 8:30 AM EDT
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PrintIt was strange on Monday that the Jets didn't burn timeouts to leave time on the clock in case the Dolphins scored once they reached the red zone. Rex Ryan's explanation:
"When you look back on it, I would have handled it differently," Ryan said yesterday. "I really was shocked. I do have a lot of confidence in that [defensive] group. I just thought it was going to go into overtime or we were going to stop them. I just assumed we'd stop them.
"But it's my responsibility. I've got nobody talking in my ear [suggesting a timeout call]. That is something that I've got to control. That's a mistake that I came by honestly. If I had that opportunity again, I should have been more mindful of it."
It's going to be very easy to jump all over him for that. Many writers have taken that route. There's clearly a line between confidence and hubris that he probably crossed, but I think that misses the bigger picture.
The thing people need to remember is this year is the first time he's running a game as a the head coach. Just like with Mark Sanchez, there are going to be bumps in the road. The important point to take away is that he seems to realize he made a mistake. Everybody makes errors. The true test is who makes the same errors over and over.
In any event, we should all be used to bad clock management after the Herman Edwards and Eric Mangini eras.
Do you think Rex should get a pass on this since he's a rookie, or is this real reason for concern?
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STOP!!
Can we talk about next week please!!! No knock on the guys here, they do a great job, but its frustating talkin about that game over and over. The Feely article was a nice switch, even tho Dolphin fans still had stuff to say. We lost, alot of things went wrong. Lets move on.
J-E-T-S
It's over but
His excuse doesn’t show that he learned a lesson. Even if he was confident the Dolphins were only going to tie the game, you need to use the timeouts, because they’d still have a chance to win in regulation. Miami would have squibbed kicked to avoid Leon, and the Jets would’ve had good field position. Why leave it up to a coin toss when your D is not getting stops? Anyone who’s ever played Madden knows these simple strategies, but coaches getting paid millions don’t realize it, and it’s fairly mind boggling. He’d better learn from it or hire Herm’s old “clock guy”.
It was a cocky move...
Part of me is glad that he got burned by his own arrogance even though we lost. The BEST case scenario was a tie. And u don’t even give ur offense a chance to answer?
Rex Ryan is an idiot
The Jets have been figured out already. The defense is soft, its just a blitz scheme defense. Now that the league has seen Miami’s formula to beat it, the defense sucks. I bet the sorry ass Jets go 7-9 at best. AFC East champs the Miami Dolphins will win it again
Phins fan
You obviously haven’t seen your schedule. You’ll be lucky to go 6-10. See ya.
by Mackey Sasser on Oct 14, 2009 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Some of you really don't comprehend what you read!
I see people saying things like " Now Rex s making excuses, simply proving that he isn’t going to change" and “His excuse doesn’t show that he learned a lesson”. At what point does this “When you look back on it, I would have handled it differently” or “But it’s my responsibility” or “That’s a mistake that I came by honestly. If I had that opportunity again, I should have been more mindful of it” sound like excuses. If he blamed the refs for calls that didn’t go their way or said some guy in the crowd was shining a flashlight in my eyes then I could agree those are excuses. The fact is he took the blame for not calling timeouts and admitted that he should have done things different in coaching this game. For some of you who say he won’t learn from his mistakes, you can’t learn from what you read if you don’t understand what you read! Think about it! I personally still have confidence in Rex Ryan taking this team places…these are bumps in the road and part of the test is to see what happens next and further down the road.
No Excuses, Just an Egotistical Idiot.
He has no excuse. He is an Idiot, I think he forgot to call a timout, he claims he didn’t think the FINS would score, you mean like we did 3 times in the 4th quarter alone? Like he was going to magicaly figure out how to stop the WILDCAT. He didn’t call a time out because he thought Ray Lewis was going to show up on the field wearing Green? He didn’t think they would Score? Get Real, it either shows he is an Idiot arrogant or BOTH. Either way I am so glad to be a FINS FANATIC these days, we have better coaches and we have many franchise players.
BTW, Jets fans, you need to take a look at the 27 so called points you think you scored. 7 of them were handed to you by the officials, and 14 of them came off of a fluke fake punt.
See you losers in NY
F-I-N-S …FINS FINS FINS.
J-E-T-S JOKE JOKE JOKE
Give me a break. The JETS play Buffalo and Oakland? That is a 2 week BYE.
IT will be hilarious if they lose any of those 2 games, because they have their hands full with the FINS in NY, that would be 2 more loses. can you say 3 and 4 after the FINS pund them again.
I Love the 3 headed monster in Miami. They are slowly building a JETS Killer.!!
Take a look at the last 3 times FINS and JETS met. If it wasn’t for a lucky ass Hail Marry pass from Brett, FINS would be up 3 out of 3 games.
Get used to the beatings JETS Fans.
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