Even during a lockout Rex Ryan finds ways to make headlines. For Baltimore fans, it’s another shot at his former team the Baltimore Ravens. Ryan’s book, Play Like you Mean It: Passion, Laughs and Leadership in the World’s Most Beautiful Game, details a “major chip” on his shoulder from the Ravens organization.
Peter King of Sports Illustrated took snippets from Rex Ryan’s book in which Ryan gives his opinion as to why he didn’t receive the Ravens coaching job.
In the book, Ryan says one of the reasons he thinks he didn’t get the Ravens coaching job when Brian Billick was fired after the 2007 season is because Ryan told owner Steve Bisciotti that Billick had lost the team. Ryan says in the book he thought that was a disloyal act. He says many nice things about the Ravens in the book, and has said many of them to me over the years too.
Ryan told King that not getting the job in Baltimore “drives” him and that the team “never thought” he could do the job.
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Do think the Ravens made a mistake in not hiring Rex. Hell, they went out and hired a Special Teams coach for the Eagles over a top Defensive Coordinator on their own team. I think Rex has a right to be ticked off.
And don’t even think about stating Harbaughs 3 straight Playoffs because Rex has taken his team further in his two years with the Jets.
Just wait till Ray Lewis and Ed Reed retire. This defense will drop to the bottom half of the league and Harbaugh will throw someone under the bus like he always does.
Harbaugh is about the most clueless head coach in football. You can just watch him on the sidelines and see he’s lost.
Love him or hate him, Rex is a football coach. You won’t get the BS or the political correctness that the Ravens head coach dishes out and that’s the real reason that Rex isn’t here. Stevie Biscuit wanted a clean cut guy, a guy who could talk the talk and spit out cliches. The team has so much talent that any schmo could lead them to the playoffs. Look, I did not want Ryan – Intimidator, verify? – but this team would have won a championship with Ryan at the wheel. Look how far they gone with a second rate coach. This team was left in the hands of a coach “learning on the fly”. It was a mistake. And please, please don’t talk about “making the playoffs”. This team has been the 5th or 6th seed each year. Anybody that watches 3 football games a year knows that their talent gets them that far. A real coach would have put them over the top.
Verify for MGW… He did not want Ryan as Head Coach… If Ryan was the Head Coach here in Baltimore this team would have won at least one Super Bowl by now.
Think about it… You hear alot of players in the league saying they want to play for Rex. Have you heard any player saying they want to play for Harbaugh? The veteran players on the Ravens don’t even take up for or talk good about Harbaugh. If you ever pay attention and there is a question about Harbaugh it is always a rookie or 2nd year player answering the question because the Baltimore media knows that they will get a “Kiss ass” answer about Harbaugh. Very rarely do you ever see a veteran asked a question about Harbaugh. Because they don’t like him.
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Whatevuh!!!