An outsider's view on Rex Ryan

I have no illusions about Brandon Jacobs being a ‘stand-up guy’. It was just shocking for a player and coach to have the exchange they had in public and address it to some extent in post game pressers. I used it as an example because it is a very good example that Rex’s talk does set the opposing players off, thug or not.

Thinking back to my own team I remember two examples. One was back in 2008-09 when Josh McDaniels reportedly trash talked the Chargers in the tunnel before the game. The dude is immature and I chalk it up to that. I see Rex doing it to try and build confidence in his team, but that could be done in a different way and privately—-there’s something to be said about the weight of words conveyed in a more intimate setting.

The second example is back in 1977, apparently then Bronco LB Tom Jackson yelled at John Madden after we beat the Raiders in the AFC Championship “Its all over Fat Man!” I am not old enough to know the context of this, but knowing how both people carried themselves over the years, Madden probably did not provoke it and who knows if Tom Jackson really meant that in a “Brandon Jacobs” like way.

Anyone someone talks a big game, people are going to want to shut them up plain and simple. Even if he just says “We’re going to win the SB”, it still adds a bit of incentive for opposing players and teams to prove them wrong. It goes back to my description of ego. Many pro athletes have very big egos—-they’ve had to in order to play with confidence in themselves to perform at a sustained high level.

The will to win should always be there, but instead of this just being Team ____ with Coach X they are facing, and a victory means one step closer to Goal A, the focus of the challenge becomes more personal. When things become more personal, there is extra motivation.

Hes also the number one coach players want to play for voted on by the players.

Only because I want to hear someone say “God made me fumble.” Its silly, its one to to pray before/after a game, that I’m fine with but keep your religion out of speeches, and such because every other person on that field and in the stands has some religion in them[well the vast majority] Pretending for a moment that all of them believe in the same religion, you get half that think their prayers were answered and the others thinking that God didn’t answer their prayers. And as for Tebow all I say is Matthew 6:1.

Oh and would Tebow get all the attention if he prayed to Budha or Allah?

No one has a personality set in stone. There’s nothing wrong with being outgoing, but brash is a different matter. Brash is akin to being rude and arrogant and a jerk. It’s immature and classless. It’s not funny. It’s the act/talk of a coward who is insecure.Why shouldn’t he change?

Rex needs to grow up, learn his craft as a HC, trust in his abilities as a great Defensive mind, discipline his players, teach them how to win and play smart, and let his players do their talking on the field. Show some dignity. You’re the face of the organization/franchise. The franchise has been a joke for most of its 50+ year history. It’s about time the franchise grew up and matured into a real, professional team. I guess we’re stuck sharing a stadium with the Giants, but the GM, HC and other leaders of the franchise need to do their jobs professionally, and act like mature, intelligent grownups whether they are or not.

Buddy if you pay attention to Rexs press conferences and not just the clip you see on the NFL network, youll see he has never bad mouthed another player coach or team, He has nothing but praise for the team hes playing. So what if he says he thinks he the better team, Doesnt everyone think that, he just says it.

The Jet’s have been going around claiming they own NYC becuase they went to to AFC championship games, other than the Jet’s ownership having a huge inferiority complex playing in Giants stadium, the two teams didn’t have much of a dislike for the other. After Rex and Woody started acting liked kids things started going south between the two organizations.

You can’ run around screaming about how good you are when you have not won a thing, this is NYC not Cleveland almost just doen’t get it done around here.

Except

They will get respect when their HC acts with dignity, maturity and class, and not like some lowlife cretin.

Rex is far from a lowlife cretin, he’s just a human being, except he is not censoring himself in any way, shape or form. I can think of only twice I thought his actions were unreasonably foolish, and that was getting into it with Channing Crowder, and only because Crowder isn’t, never was and never will be worth it and putting those videos on YouTube was foolish as hell too, but beyond that he can have sex with all the feet he wants, I think it’s actually quite refreshing that he has a family he loves to death.

The only thing you can nail him on is class, and let’s face it, we’ll never be seen as a classy team and to hell with it anyway, because two of the “classiest teams” are playing each other in the Super Bowl right now, and they’re not really that classy at all. Rex Ryan is not classy, and that is because he is bold. And to be honest with you, I rather have the boldness than pretend to be paragons of virtue. And besides, like someone previously mentioned, Rex goes out of his way to compliment and respect his opponents. He should can the guarantees but the reason the Jets went 8-8 is because they were mediocre, not because Rex Ryan has a penchant for talking his team up.

Some of you guys forget Rex made the Jets relevant again and other teams do respect the Jets. There are some changes Rex needs to make with his coaching style and I think he will make those changes as he goes forward in his coaching career.
You also need to realize ESPN only likes to focus and accentuate the more controversial things Rex does and says, they never like to focus on the way he stands behind his players or the fact that he does compliment Belichick as being the best HC in football. I have never heard Rex put another team down, he just likes to put his team up on a pedestal…kinda like a proud parent.

Again, from “Play Like You Mean It”:

The next thing we changed was the media policy. With Mangini, the policy was basically that he talked and maybe Brett Favre, the quarterback at the time, talked. Other than that, everybody was supposed to stay shut. The orders seemed to be, simply: Don’t say anything. When Woody Johnson and Mike Tannenbaum were interviewing me, they asked, “What’s the policy going to be with the media?” I thought, “What do you mean, ‘what is the policy?’ There is no policy.” Everyone can talk, the players, the coaches, everybody. I don’t want people to be scared to say something. I just have one rule: When guys talk, it’s their job to mention at least two teammates and one coach everytime they answer questions.

The way I see it, the airing of laundry is a concequence of a good policy. It’s a subjective opinion though, some like it, some don’t.

i think he should a little bit, but i don’t want him to stop being rex. if a guy asks him if you are going to win it all, he’s going to answer “yes”. anything else i’d get worried. he’s done it for 3 years now, he can’t stop. i would like him to stop trying to make a giants rivalry, it’s unneccesary.

….how long do you think it would take him to turn around?