Rex in Victory

Some excerpts from Rex Ryan's postgame interview:

On the defensive game plan to shut down the Chargers’ high-powered offense...

Just play like Jets. That’s a heck of an offense over there. It was tough sledding, there’s no question. I apologize to our fans for going too soft at the end of the game there, but shoot, we were trying to play to that clock a little bit and allowing them to go down there. But they made the plays on us. That’s a type of game where you really have to hold your breath. It’s one of those things where they have so many weapons over there and our guys did a tremendous job. We knew it was going to be a great challenge and, again, our guys stood up and were up to the task.

 

On adjustments made to take away the Chargers' deep pass...

We made a couple of adjustments. We swapped out some personnel and changed a couple of blitzes and things like that. It’s such a great football team over there and Norv Turner does a heck of a job. We knew it wasn’t going to be easy and that is one heck of a football team there. Some of the adjustments we made, Mike Pettine and Dennis Thurman and Bob Sutton and all the coaches over there did a great job, came together and made a couple of adjustments that worked for us.

 

On if there's a different strategy used during the game with Darrelle Revis...

I never felt that they had a go-to receiver. They’ve got both who are very talented guys and things like that. We never really thought there was that big of a difference. We still gave him the tough down every time. We were playing a lot of man coverage on his side regardless of who the receiver was. And on the other side we were running some loaded zones and mixes and things like that. He still had the tough down.

On what the Jets did to defend against Darren Sproles...

We did some different things on Sproles. We go with what we call "one and a half;" have one guy on him and a half a guy spying him. That’s basically what happened.

 

Call it the anatomy of shutting down a dynamic offense. I'm really glad this guy is on our side.