Cimini: Rex Skips Cutdown Day to Visit Son

[flgreen]

Rex skips cutdown day to visit son

 

 

September, 2, 2013

 

Sep 2

 

 

7:38

 

 

PM ET

 

 

By  Rich Cimini | ESPN.com

 

 

Rex Ryan confirmed Monday that he spent Saturday -- cut-down day in the NFL -- at the Clemson-Georgia game in Clemson, S.C. His son, Seth, is a freshman walk-on for Clemson. It may seem unusual, a head coach leaving town on one of the busiest days of the year, but Ryan said everything was in order before he left.

 

 

Ryan said most of the Jets' cuts were made Friday night, adding that he spoke to "several" players they planned to release.

 

 

"I was very aware of our situation," he said. "This was an opportunity to see my son play his first college game."

 

 

Ryan caught himself, smiling.

 

 

"I think 'played' is not very accurate," he said. "I saw him stand there. But it was a great deal. Obviously, it's not like I'm going to be able to go to another game. It just so happened I could make that one. It was a night game. That's really what I did. I took advantage of it. It was great. I just played dad there for a day. That was a lot of fun."

 

 

Word of his trip broke Saturday night, when someone tweeted a photo of Ryan, wearing a Clemson shirt, in an airport. Ryan's intentions may have been pure, but his decision to leave on cut-down day will fuel the perception that he has lost power in the organization to new general manager John Idzik.

[flgreen]

It must really suck to be in the spotlight in NY.  This is about the biggest non story.  Who cares?  His job was done. He was going to see his kid on a big day. 

 

Move on

[kay_gee]

oh sweet Jesus.

[slats]

Oh. The humanity.

[Lizard King]

FIREABLE OFFENSE

[T0mShane]

Dead Man Walking.

[faba]

that is the media in New York/NJ- when they have  a target  they pile on.

[Integrity28]

Jackals.

[Klecko73isGod]

Rich Cimini actually wrote this article and put a negative spin on a father going to support his son for his first college football game. 

 

Cimini is now officially an horrific POS. 

[Integrity28]

Rich Cimini actually wrote this article and put a negative spin on a father going to support his son for his first college football game. 

 

Cimini is now officially an horrific POS. 

 

now?

[JoeKlecko]

It must really suck to be in the spotlight in NY.  This is about the biggest non story.  Who cares?  His job was done. He was going to see his kid on a big day. 

 

Move on

 

Exactly.  Rex provides a lot of reasons to kill him, but this isn't one of them.  The media is so freaking pathetic and lame.  They will stop at nothing, grasp the merest wisp of something and try to twist or construe it into a sign of something being wrong with the Jets.  I hope they keep it up.  Maybe other national media will rip the Jets beat writers.  Maybe EVERYONE will get so fed up with it that such a big stink is made of it, that the moronic ass wipe Jets beat writers will all get fired, and the media in general will be forced to change the way they do their jobs. That's the only way it will change, is if enough people get fed up, raise hell with the media outlets, stop purchasing their products, stop purchasing the products of their advertisers and let the advertisers know why.  The almighty $ controls everything.  Hurt them in their pocketbook and they'll change. 

[T0mShane]

It was stupid by Rex. Absolutely stupid. It showed a complete lack of self-awareness. Nobody related to the league has come out--even anonymously--to say this was a good idea.

[Bleedin Green]

Well, I guess you can give some credit (sort of) to Cimini, this article actually isn't nearly as bad as first one I saw about this very topic that was posted in another thread.  At least Cimini was willing to acknowledge the obvious reality that the cuts had already been determined before Rex went anywhere.

[Klecko73isGod]

It was stupid by Rex. Absolutely stupid. It showed a complete lack of self-awareness. Nobody related to the league has come out--even anonymously--to say this was a good idea.

 

 

This is some weak-assed trolling. 

[Bleedin Green]

It was stupid by Rex. Absolutely stupid. It showed a complete lack of self-awareness. Nobody related to the league has come out--even anonymously--to say this was a good idea.

 

Oh yeah, it wasn't smart, as it was obviously an easy opening for the media to do exactly what they're doing, anyone could have seen that.  With that said, you also cannot deny that some of the conclusions being drawn from this by the media are absolutely ridiculous, such as the idea that it must mean he had absolutely no involvement in determining the final roster, because obviously the entire Jets' team took Friday off and also hadn't discussed the roster at all prior to that.  Sure, Rex should have seen this coming, but that doesn't make some of what's been written any less nonsensical.

[Matt39]

I mean, tailgating all day...I wish I were in college again too

[Jetfan13]

More tough guys talking crap without being named.

 

 

 

Rex Ryan’s decision to skip cut-down day  to watch his son, Seth, a freshman walk-on wide receiver at Clemson, face Georgia in South Carolina has come under scrutiny.

Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News reports Jets general manager John Idzik, who excused Ryan, and his confidantes spent Saturday finalizing cuts and formulating plans to put in waiver wire claims to bolster the team.

Ryan was out of town during this pivotal period for the first time since taking over as head coach in 2009.

“I’ve never heard of that before,” an NFC executive said. “It’s crazy.”

Ryan defended his absence.

“It’s not like I’m going to be able to go to another game,” Ryan said Monday. “It just so happened that I could make that one: It was a night game. So that’s really what I did. I took advantage of it. It was great. I just played dad there for a day and it was a lot of fun.”

“He’s got zero influence,” a source close to the situation said about Ryan. “(He) doesn’t care and he is letting everyone know. He just shows up for his check... It’s a big F.U. to all the players.”

[sirlancemehlot]

Absolutely ridiculous and borderline grotesque to fault the guy for supporting his son on his first college game. That's an experience you can only have once, and will never get again. He had his ducks in a row a day early and made most of the cuts already. The rest were settled but just had to be completed. That's it. It doesn't mean Idzik is in control, or Rex doesn't care anymore or the players got a big FU. It means none of that. Whatsoever. Nauseating.

[Larz]

called it, lol

[KSJets]

Exactly.  Rex provides a lot of reasons to kill him, but this isn't one of them.  The media is so freaking pathetic and lame.  They will stop at nothing, grasp the merest wisp of something and try to twist or construe it into a sign of something being wrong with the Jets.  I hope they keep it up.  Maybe other national media will rip the Jets beat writers.  Maybe EVERYONE will get so fed up with it that such a big stink is made of it, that the moronic ass wipe Jets beat writers will all get fired, and the media in general will be forced to change the way they do their jobs. That's the only way it will change, is if enough people get fed up, raise hell with the media outlets, stop purchasing their products, stop purchasing the products of their advertisers and let the advertisers know why.  The almighty $ controls everything.  Hurt them in their pocketbook and they'll change. 

 

Tony Dungy praised Rex for doing it actually.

[T0mShane]

Absolutely ridiculous and borderline grotesque to fault the guy for supporting his son on his first college game. That's an experience you can only have once, and will never get again. He had his ducks in a row a day early and made most of the cuts already. The rest were settled but just had to be completed. That's it. It doesn't mean Idzik is in control, or Rex doesn't care anymore or the players got a big FU. It means none of that. Whatsoever. Nauseating.

His son is the 108th player on the team.

[T0mShane]

Oh yeah, it wasn't smart, as it was obviously an easy opening for the media to do exactly what they're doing, anyone could have seen that. With that said, you also cannot deny that some of the conclusions being drawn from this by the media are absolutely ridiculous, such as the idea that it must mean he had absolutely no involvement in determining the final roster, because obviously the entire Jets' team took Friday off and also hadn't discussed the roster at all prior to that. Sure, Rex should have seen this coming, but that doesn't make some of what's been written any less nonsensical.

True. You just really have to wonder if he even gives a sh*t anymore.

[JiFtheOracle]

Tony Dungy praised Rex for doing it actually.

 

GOD HAS SPOKEN!!!!

[KSJets]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/09/03/dyer-rex-ryan-should-be-applauded-not-criticized-for-clemson-trip/

 

Dyer: Rex Ryan Should Be Applauded, Not Criticized, For Clemson Trip Come On, Give The Jets Coach A Break On This One

By Kristian Dyer

Jets head coach Rex Ryan has drawn an awful lot of criticism these days, but going to his son’s football game in Clemson on Saturday afternoon shouldn’t be questioned as a slam on his commitment to the team. It should be applauded as his commitment to the right things.

The timing was far from ideal for Ryan, who flew down to Clemson on Saturday to see his son Seth’s first college football game. Seth is a freshmen wide receiver for the Tigers who didn’t play against Georgia in the season opener this weekend. But that his son wasn’t likely to play didn’t stop his father from going down to see the game, or as he said Monday in his press conference, “just played dad there for the day.” Of course, Ryan is under fire for being at his son’s game on the same day that the Jets cut their roster down to 53 players.

Most of the personnel decisions were already made the day before he flew down, he said. No matter as there is still uproar that he wasn’t seated in a conference room and instead was in the stands at his son’s game.

But Rex Ryan made the right call on Saturday afternoon to be there at Clemson. It took courage, and while it might undercut his standing in the organization, he instead chose family over football — and that is always the right call from the playbook.

The fallout from this call he simply had to know was coming. And Ryan couldn’t turn his back on this one.

Earlier in training camp, Ryan’s role on the team took a hit when general manager John Idzik undercut his head coach by saying that he would have a role along with Ryan in the decision on picking a starting quarterback. Typically, the role of picking a starting player – quarterback or otherwise – falls to the head coach. But Idzik inserted himself into the decision-making process in a move that clearly made Ryan look on the outs and perhaps signaled that his influence in the organization is shrinking with a new general manager in town.

It would have been easy for Ryan then to look at a situation such as Saturday and determine that public perception would read his presence in “Death Valley” as a sign that he was out of the loop on determining the roster. He could have called it off and in all likelihood, Seth would have understood. No matter of course that the majority of the moves were made the day before – it would still seem as if Ryan wasn’t on top of things. And for a head coach so often accused of being loosey goosey and not detail-oriented, it could have been the wrong play.

Instead, Ryan went there for his son’s big moment to see Seth’s first-ever college football game. No matter that he didn’t play and simply stood there on the sidelines, father wanted to see and support his son in what was a big moment in both their lives.

There is no offseason anymore in the NFL and Ryan is known to be a constant presence at the team’s facility, a workaholic who is among the first at the team’s facility and among the last to leave. It means that so many times in his life, he chooses the Jets organization and by proxy the players and fans over his own social life. Family often takes a back seat in his daily and weekly routine, as his trips to Starbucks at 7 a.m. nearly every morning for a jolt of caffeine can attest to. He puts in the hours to try to turn this team around.

At no point did his decision to fly to South Carolina cost the team a chance to make any roster moves or sign any players, especially with the preponderance of Jets moves made the evening before. But somehow, it is easier to pick on Ryan for the timing of this move, especially in light of his decision two weeks ago in the third preseason game – a choice that directly led to Mark Sanchez’s recent shoulder injury.

Rex Ryan knew that his decision to go to Clemson would get picked up by the media. He knew that it would be painted as a decision that showed he was out of the loop or simply didn’t care about the moves at the bottom of the Jets roster. He knew he would take heat for it and be criticized and questioned and second guessed. He knew a firestorm was coming.

And yet, he still chose family over football for one night.

And he chose right.

[JoeKlecko]

Tony Dungy praised Rex for doing it actually.

 

Dungy has good reason for saying that too.  I'll bet he wishes he had spent more time with his son and less with the Bucs.

[BP]

I'm wondering if Rex took a sh*t today.

[jetsjetsjetss]

every single person on espn that talked about it said its not a big deal

[faba]

Just another example of trying to get after the Jets and their organization-how you combat it- win games

[HessStation]

Example #567 why I don't give a real sh*t about sports anymore.

#humanseventyallyruineverything

[Matt39]

Terry Bradway went to Disney World on the first day of free agency while he was GM.

[TnT]

Must be a very proud moment for the Ryan family...good for him.

[HessStation]

Must be a very proud moment for the Ryan family...good for him.

I would have 1000% done the same thing as Rex. anyone who wouldn't is a scumbag. **** them.

[faba]

Rex has his faults but putting family before anything else- this is the worst type of bashing a reporter can think of

[Larz]

its amazing in the skype generation we kill a guy for not being there face to face

 

and the mcelrat thing was obvious, rex hated his guts, so eff him

 

idzik said it was excused, and they were in contact via phone and txt

[Bugg]

Absolutely ridiculous and borderline grotesque to fault the guy for supporting his son on his first college game. That's an experience you can only have once, and will never get again. He had his ducks in a row a day early and made most of the cuts already. The rest were settled but just had to be completed. That's it. It doesn't mean Idzik is in control, or Rex doesn't care anymore or the players got a big FU. It means none of that. Whatsoever. Nauseating.

His son is a walk on who did not play.

Seems either ridiculously unaware of his cricumstance, or totally knowing he is really done here. More proof Woody is a cheap bastid who should've fired him the same day he canned Tannenbaum.