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Rex Ryan, the New York Jets head football coach and brother of Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, spoke after the coaches portion of the NFL owners meetings in New Orleans on Tuesday. In his remarks, he referred to his brother's ability to coach, but figures it may just fall short of his.
“I always say this to him, and I believe it: I think they'll be second in the league in defense this year,” Rex Ryan said. Rex, in addition to his head coaching duties, runs the Jets defense. Based on yardage, the Jets were third last season, the Rob Ryan-coached Browns were 22nd and the Cowboys were 23rd.
Both are the sons of Buddy Ryan, the former head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals and defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears during their championship season of 1985.
Buddy Ryan's role as Eagles coach earned him a selection into SportsDay's March Menace tournament as the top seed in the Cowboys bracket of sports personalities Cowboys fans love to hate. It appears, based on Rex Ryan's comments Tuesday, that Buddy feels the same way toward the Cowboys.
When asked about how his father felt about Rob Ryan joining the staff of the Cowboys, Rex Ryan said that Buddy is “struggling with it a little bit. … He looked at Rob like he's Benedict Arnold or something.”
Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary War. He began the war in the Continental Army but later was viewed as a traitor when he defected to the British Army.
Ryan never has been someone who passes up a good punch line, particularly at the expense of the rival New England Patriots.
He spoke about Patriots coach Bill Belichick ("I feel, like, at times, we're the only team that can beat him") and quarterback Tom Brady ("You know he can't stand me"), among other topics.
A sampling:
— On Belichick: "You know what's funny? We have conversations. We talk about baseball. We talk about anything. I personally like Belichick. And I have more respect for Belichick than any coach in this league, as you guys know. But again, I still want to beat him. And the fact that he's in our division — I'm paid to beat him. ... They lost three games last year, two to us."
— On Belichick benching Texas Tech alum Wes Welker at the start of the Jets' playoff victory over the Patriots after the receiver's verbal digs at Ryan: "At the time, I was like, 'That's pretty cool.' " Ryan said he took that as a sign of Belichick's respect for him.
— On Brady: "One day, I expect him to roll out one time and just launch a ball at me and take the incompletion. That's what I worry about. I do like to play with him a little bit. But what a great quarterback."
— On why three-time Super Bowl champion Brady was only a sixth-round draft pick: "We all saw him run that 40. Oh my goodness, that's the slowest 40 I've ever seen in my life."
Rex Ryan, the New York Jets head football coach and brother of Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, spoke after the coaches portion of the NFL owners meetings in New Orleans on Tuesday. In his remarks, he referred to his brother's ability to coach, but figures it may just fall short of his.
“I always say this to him, and I believe it: I think they'll be second in the league in defense this year,” Rex Ryan said. Rex, in addition to his head coaching duties, runs the Jets defense. Based on yardage, the Jets were third last season, the Rob Ryan-coached Browns were 22nd and the Cowboys were 23rd.
Both are the sons of Buddy Ryan, the former head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals and defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears during their championship season of 1985.
Buddy Ryan's role as Eagles coach earned him a selection into SportsDay's March Menace tournament as the top seed in the Cowboys bracket of sports personalities Cowboys fans love to hate. It appears, based on Rex Ryan's comments Tuesday, that Buddy feels the same way toward the Cowboys.
When asked about how his father felt about Rob Ryan joining the staff of the Cowboys, Rex Ryan said that Buddy is “struggling with it a little bit. … He looked at Rob like he's Benedict Arnold or something.”
Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary War. He began the war in the Continental Army but later was viewed as a traitor when he defected to the British Army.
Ryan never has been someone who passes up a good punch line, particularly at the expense of the rival New England Patriots.
He spoke about Patriots coach Bill Belichick ("I feel, like, at times, we're the only team that can beat him") and quarterback Tom Brady ("You know he can't stand me"), among other topics.
A sampling:
— On Belichick: "You know what's funny? We have conversations. We talk about baseball. We talk about anything. I personally like Belichick. And I have more respect for Belichick than any coach in this league, as you guys know. But again, I still want to beat him. And the fact that he's in our division — I'm paid to beat him. ... They lost three games last year, two to us."
— On Belichick benching Texas Tech alum Wes Welker at the start of the Jets' playoff victory over the Patriots after the receiver's verbal digs at Ryan: "At the time, I was like, 'That's pretty cool.' " Ryan said he took that as a sign of Belichick's respect for him.
— On Brady: "One day, I expect him to roll out one time and just launch a ball at me and take the incompletion. That's what I worry about. I do like to play with him a little bit. But what a great quarterback."
— On why three-time Super Bowl champion Brady was only a sixth-round draft pick: "We all saw him run that 40. Oh my goodness, that's the slowest 40 I've ever seen in my life."
