Rex Ryan is on a mission to return to the Jets: ‘Nobody is better than me’
NY Post
One man is already seemingly trying to get his foot in the door to become the next head coach of the Jets.
ESPN analyst and former Jets and Bills coach Rex Ryan seemed to be campaigning hard to be considered as a candidate for the position during an appearance on ESPN New York’s “Bart & Hahn.”
Ryan argued against blowing up the Jets’ roster when he started to make a point that he would be able to get the team’s current talent pool to win.
“I look at it this way, blow it up? We’re going to blow the opponents up,” Ryan told hosts Alan Hahn and Bart Scott, who played for Ryan during his time on the Jets. “There’s way too much talent on this team to play the way we’ve been playing. How hard can you get a guy to play? That’s the thing. Nobody has seen a team that is going to play as hard as this team’s going to play in the future, trust me. If I’m the guy, trust me.”
Ryan served as the Jets head coach through one of the franchise’s more successful periods in recent memory, though the vibe quickly shifted.
The Jets went 46-50 during Ryan’s run from 2009-14, which included back-to-back trips to the AFC championship game in his first two seasons.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.