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Rex Ryan, in a season where he's been set up to fail, needs support in his corner

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NY Jets coach Rex Ryan, in a season where he's been set up to fail, needs support in his corner (Mike Lupica)

New York Daily News

October 14, 2014 Daily Clips Cont.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/lupica-ny-jets-coach-rex-ryan-support-corner-article-1.1974694

Rex Ryan was a good quote again on Tuesday. He has been a good quote from the time he hit town. They asked him about Darrelle Revis playing against the Jets on Thursday night and he said it made him sick to his stomach. He got a laugh, and made another back-page headline. He has always been able to do that, too. He has always delivered better than his quarterbacks have.

Rex goes back to Foxborough now, goes up against Bill Belichick and Tom Brady again. He tries to beat them with a second-year quarterback in Geno Smith the way he beat them on the best Sunday he has ever had with the Jets with another second-year quarterback once. That was the day the Jets went into Foxborough, not so terribly long after the Patriots had humiliated them on "Monday Night Football," and beat a 14-2 Patriots team and advanced to another AFC Championship Game.

If you can do that, you are more than a stand-up comic and more than a buffoon, you can coach. He can coach. It is worth pointing out again that he is better than his circumstances, in a season where he has been set up to fail. If he loses his job at the end of the season because he has lost too many games, he won’t have to go to television, or back to being a coordinator. Somebody else will hire him to come coach their team.

Maybe this time he will even get himself a quarterback. Twice with Mark Sanchez he made it to within a game of the Super Bowl. Somehow last season, with smoke and mirrors and sleight-of-hand and a couple of late-game bad calls, he went 8-8 with Geno. You can add it up any way you want to when you add up what he has done across his time with the Jets:

But Belichick had Brady. You see the quarterbacks Ryan has had. You also see that Rex Ryan has never coached a great skill-position player on offense in his life, not one.

Everybody here knows that Rex has said a lot of clown things since he took over the Jets. He is more than that, whether John Idzik — so far below the salary cap he is like some sort of deep-sea diver — gets rid of him at the end of the season or not. Now the Jets are 1-5 and looking at 1-6 unless Rex has one more October surprise in him up in Foxborough. It is hard to see the Jets recovering from 1-6, even with the kind of pillow-fight schedule they have the second half of the season.

You still have to say, just watching the way the season has played out so far, that Ryan looks like a stand-up guy, even if he is already down for the count because of the players Idzik has given him. He stands by his quarterback, even when the quarterback tries to blame his problems on the media. He stands by a general manager who has given him this kind of personnel, on both sides of the ball. It means Ryan gives a lot better than he gets, as he tries to get a game off Brady and Belichick and maybe change the way everybody looks at his football team.

He was asked on Tuesday if he wanted Revis to come back to the Jets when he was available to the whole world in the offseason.

"Oh, man, I’m not going to go there," Ryan said. "Let’s focus on the team right in front of us and recognize that (Revis) is an excellent player on someone else’s team and that’s just the way it is."

He was once that kind of player for Ryan, when Ryan had a general manager who thought it was a good idea to give him good cornerbacks. He was right there in January of 2011 when the Jets went into Indianapolis and beat Peyton Manning and the Colts and then went into Foxborough and handed Brady a loss in the playoffs that Brady said is still one of the toughest of his career. The sides weren’t supposed to be even that day, and somehow the Jets found a way to get to Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship Game and send Brady and the Patriots home.

 

Here is what Brady said about Ryan on Tuesday:

"He tests every part of your game. I do have a lot of respect for that from a coaching standpoint, that he challenges you and when he feels like he has you on something he sticks with it. We’ve had our share of good games, and he’s had his share of good games. It makes for a great matchup. They’re a great rivalry, and we’ve had a lot of meaningful games against them. Ever since I got here it’s always a lot of fun playing the Jets, so this week will be no different."

We know Rex’s weaknesses as a head coach, how he seems to be interested and engaged in only one part of the game. When it comes to offense, he reminds you of a line from baseball, the one Dave McNally, an old Orioles pitcher, who said that the only thing Earl Weaver knew about pitching was that he could never hit it. Rex would rather stop good offense than coach it.

He goes back to Foxborough, where he had his biggest day with the Jets once, and tries to figure things out, just with Revis being a great cover corner for the other team now. But if you are a Jets fan, remember that day, and what the Jets did to the Patriots with another second-year quarterback. The Jets can get rid of their coach at the end of this season, probably will. If it happens, the owner he will be leaving and the general manager will be doing him a favor.

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Scott Dierking

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Remember at the beginning of the year, at prediction time, when the media, along with Jets fans said that this was going to be a disastrous type season? Remember how they were claiming that the jets stood no shot, and the off-season was a joke?

 

Oh yeah, they didn't.

 

When you get Lupica, partially in your corner, you are now known as a pathetic figure.

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A lot of media locally and nationally had the jets as a playoff team , Vegas over-under was 8.5 ....now we were doomed from the start and 4-5 wins would be a coach of the year job by Rex.....just straight trash

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The media who covers the Jets is having an oh sh!t moment.

 

They are saying to themselves, the guy who has made it very easy to do our jobs for the past 6 years is in jeopardy of losing his job, OH SH!t!

 

Do you think it is was easier to write about the Jets in the boring Mangini days, or the clown Rex days? There is always a story with Rex, always a quote. They are going to do everything they can to not lose that story, not lose that quote.

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