Jets vs. Giants: Rex Ryan Says Jets Are Better

by John B on Dec 19, 2011 3:00 PM EST

Rex Ryan fired the first salvo at the Giants this week, declaring the Jets are New York's best football team. If you thought Ryan would be silenced with his team a day removed from a 26 point beating, you are mistaken.

"Quite honestly, I never came here to be little brother to anybody," Ryan said. "So, it’s on."

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"Certainly, we were the better team the first two years," Ryan said. "We made the playoffs and went to the championship game. To say a team’s better than you that never made the playoffs, just is ridiculous. Clearly, we were the better team my first two years. And we get to prove it on Saturday who the best team is this year."

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"I recognize that they’re an excellent football team, but I think we’re better," Ryan said.

Although some Giants fans would have you believe it is their birthright to say they own the city, Rex is right. This is decided on the field. The Jets have been better since Ryan took over. The Giants will have the chance to claim superiority on the field if they win Saturday. If the Jets win, Gang Green is big brother in 2011.

I expect to hear plenty from the Jets this week. I think it is calculated. They want to create a distraction for the Giants. They want the Giants to have to answer nonstop questions about the way the Jets are talking to irritate them. We have seen the Jets deploy this tactic against the Patriots in recent years. Like the Pats, the Giants have a coach who likes to block out distractions and does not like his players generating headlines. Rex wants the Giants to focus on the sideshow instead of their plan. He wants them to get angry and too hyped up so they make mistakes. He wants somebody to slip up like Wes Welker did before the Playoff game last year and create a division. The Giants have lost their composure at times during preseason games in the Ryan era against the Jets perhaps because they were too hyped. A big regular season game will magnify this.

Of couse, this also opens the Jets up to end zone dances by people like Mike Francesa if the Giants win.

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I don’t know how you talk like this after having a very important game completely unravel after a few minutes of early adversity, in a season of real mediocrity. Two “bad” teams arguing over who rules the town. But that is Rex. Rex, get control of your team. Stop worrying about other teams.

by ________key on Dec 19, 2011 3:09 PM EST reply actions 2 recs

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The act is getting real tired. I knows he’s trying to change the story and forget about the giant deuce his team just laid, but sometimes you gotta stick your dogs nose in the poo to make sure that he understands what your beating his ass about.

You don’t let the dog take a giant crap on the living room carpet and then run out back and play tug of war with him. No. You have to beat his ass first.

by Crackback on Dec 19, 2011 3:20 PM EST up reply actions

I'm not sure if I'm the only one,

But I don’t even respect Rex as our coach anymore. We all know about is antics and crap like that, but I don’t ever see any strides he tries to make for this team. Yes Rex, we know you think the Jets are the best team in the league. They aren’t, and just because you think so, you and the players, who look up to YOU, cannot continue to be classless ass-wholes while the team clearly needs work done. Don’t even get me started about the work done in the offseason. We made so many high risk moves and a lot of plain dumb ones, too. I think Rex thought we were good enough to win anyways, but this year’s team has proved that you cannot go after huge free agents while letting some of your key guys go. It’s simply ignorant. Step up Rex, it’s gettin embarrassing and quite hard to deal with your swings with the team and inconsistentcy.

by JetKing55 on Dec 19, 2011 5:12 PM EST up reply actions

I like when Jets talk trash

When they don’t, they always come out looking flat.

Oh yes that's right, I'm a Jets fan.

by Bob_The_Friendly_Baker on Dec 19, 2011 3:17 PM EST reply actions

Rex is a pretty transparent guy so we all know what he's trying to do

I actually like it when the Jets talk trash, somebody needs to wake Cro and Bart Scott up from their slumber. They need to piss off the Giants so much that it completely takes them out of their game.
Believe me, talking smack will not make this team look any worse than they looked on Sunday so I say go for it.

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by MDGeekyGrl on Dec 19, 2011 3:41 PM EST up reply actions

Correction

We play flat whenever we play a team with a record north of .500 (even the Cowboys, who we beat by a whisker). The bottom line is that this team is only slightly above average to mediocre. We did not address the flaws in the defense (safety coverage and pass rush) and the offensive line is in the same position it was in 2007 (post-Kendall). Our defense is big and powerful and built to complement an offense that can win the Time of Possession battle. When they don’t, the defense looks tired and slow.

I’ve been a Jets fan since 1970, but anyone honest has to admit that this team is nowhere close to Super Bowl caliber. So who really cares about New York bragging rights? That will be worth about as much as Florida bragging rights when the season is over.

by Black Dog Jet on Dec 19, 2011 4:17 PM EST up reply actions

Really well put.

by ________key on Dec 19, 2011 4:20 PM EST up reply actions

Okay

It just seems to me we play with more fire when were talking junk. Even if we do get beat.

Oh yes that's right, I'm a Jets fan.

by Bob_The_Friendly_Baker on Dec 19, 2011 4:48 PM EST up reply actions

no

So who really cares about New York bragging rights? That will be worth about as much as Florida bragging rights when the season is over.

if we winthis game, we are 9-6, and we are “win and their in” for the miami game.

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by rexthejet on Dec 19, 2011 5:06 PM EST up reply actions

Shades of 2008, IMO.

by Timmaht on Dec 20, 2011 6:51 AM EST up reply actions

or 2009

by rexthejet on Dec 20, 2011 5:29 PM EST up reply actions

this

seems like every time we keep quiet, we lose

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by Jadden Hopkins on Dec 19, 2011 4:41 PM EST up reply actions

We kept quiet a week before the AFCCG after talking crap the previous two weeks.

Jets should just force themselves to play better by talking crap and backing it up.

by jets4life24 on Dec 19, 2011 4:52 PM EST up reply actions

Jets play much better

when we trash talk. Rex sounded very optimistic in his press conference, so that’s a good thing. Hopefully he says more about the defense or watches more over Pettine. Pettine game plan was not good at all.

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by PuffDaddy18 on Dec 19, 2011 3:24 PM EST reply actions

I knew Ryan couldn't keep quiet....

Why do this nonsense when the Giants are their own worst enemy and can’t even find their own identity? Yet, you want to trash talk them so they’ll have a reason to want to play? Like the dumbass Cowboys did with Demarcus Ware yapping at them? They decided to give a damn when he did that. For once, just don’t say a thing and let the football players decide it.

by winnebagosun on Dec 19, 2011 3:48 PM EST reply actions

if they lose their out of the playoffs

thats enough of a reason to want to play

Proud member of the fire Brian Schottenheimer club
"Grunt and Punt offense"
"To all the nonbelievers..."
You knew the game when you got into it
"Planing for Manning"

by Jadden Hopkins on Dec 19, 2011 4:44 PM EST up reply actions

this.

a great reason to chirp at them. Right now giants are focused on winning out and getting in. By losing yesterday, the Giants put themselves in the same position we are now in. If we can tilt the Giants into doing stupid things, it works in our advantage, both for the game and for our playoff chances.

Rex’s leadership has been criticized and praised since he got here, but overall the past two season have been a success for the Jets (just not at the level Rex “promised”). Let him do his work during the season. I need to believe everything that they do is for a reason, beyond what we as fans can understand, for the good of the season as a whole. Granted laying a egg to the Eagles wasnt part of that plan, but based on our history under Rex, this is how to get OUR team to perform. IDC that the patriots/insert other team here dont open themselves up to the same kind of bs our Jets do, theyre a different team with a different coach and qb. For the most part, Rex has been able to take what we have and win with it – say what you will about not addressing needs. It’s never pretty but its “Jets football.” And Jet’s football is what we have NOT been playing recently.

by tanTrum on Dec 19, 2011 7:04 PM EST up reply actions

Spark something rex!

Jets need to go back to their roots. A physical, smashmouth, shit-talking team. We’ll take care of the giants.

by jets4life24 on Dec 19, 2011 3:57 PM EST via mobile reply actions

good that we are talking

it seems we play better when trash talking is going on.

by rexthejet on Dec 19, 2011 5:06 PM EST reply actions

RR, instead of talking up your team, why don't you coach up the team?????

by DesertJetFan on Dec 19, 2011 5:52 PM EST reply actions

Trash-talking....

….is not the way to the SB. In fact, it reminds me off that “veteran” play by Holmes, standing on the ball and knowing he would get a 15-yarder when we were down by 18 points.

That’s punk football, not championship football.

Say what you want about Darth Belichick, the point is that he keeps his mouth shut, he addresses weaknesses in the off-season (even if his D is below average), he has 3 SB rings, his team doesn’t take multiple stupid penalties, they aren’t near the bottom of the league in turnover ratio and his record is 11-3 with 6 straight victories.

I’ll take stoicism and competence over empty braggadocio any time. Let’s address our problems and commit to excellence already.

by Black Dog Jet on Dec 19, 2011 5:53 PM EST reply actions

That being said....

….why wasn’t Bart Scott up in Santanio’s face after that stupidity? That’s the kind of fire and loud talk I’d like to see, rather than this empty talk when we’re 1-5 against teams .500 and better.

by Black Dog Jet on Dec 19, 2011 5:57 PM EST reply actions

Rex likes to focus

On the past (how well the Jets have done in the past two postseasons) and the future (how well they’ll do when they get to this year’s postseason) but he has a hard time living in the moment and talking about the current state of the team. Clearly Rex is not a Buddhist.

by heisthejuan on Dec 19, 2011 10:57 PM EST reply actions

I like it

It’s not wearing thin to me. Who cares about the last game, it’s on to the next. Treat the next game like the most important thing, which he is doing. Challenge your players, like he is doing. Speak your mind no matter what, like he is doing. To say he shouldn’t say that is the same as saying get up on stage and don’t say what your actually thinking. Give it to em Rex.

by manuvsteal on Dec 21, 2011 9:00 AM EST reply actions