Many NY sportswriters for the Jets pointed out we've heard all this big talk from Rex Ryan before who promises the Bills are 'going to be bullies' from now on.
Mike Vaccaro argues that Ryan is a sly politician who has fooled his next franchise:
"We fell hard, too. We did. That, really, is Rex Ryan’sspecial magic (well, that, and the fact that his bully-boy defense often looked like it was playing 7-on-11 when it absolutely, positively needed to make a stop across much of the last six years … but we digress)."
"We’d been dulled by dullards, same as you. For us, it was three years of Eric Mangini, who could sometimes make football seem as fun as an echocardiogram, whose press conferences could have been choreographed by anesthesiologists. For you it was Doug Marrone."
Mike Vaccaro argues that Ryan is a sly politician who has fooled his next franchise:
"We fell hard, too. We did. That, really, is Rex Ryan’sspecial magic (well, that, and the fact that his bully-boy defense often looked like it was playing 7-on-11 when it absolutely, positively needed to make a stop across much of the last six years … but we digress)."
"We’d been dulled by dullards, same as you. For us, it was three years of Eric Mangini, who could sometimes make football seem as fun as an echocardiogram, whose press conferences could have been choreographed by anesthesiologists. For you it was Doug Marrone."
"Yes, from afar, we empathized, because listening to Marrone prattle on about his own subtle genius felt like public-access TV."
"And into the breech — for us six years ago, for you Wednesday afternoon — stepped Rex, turning his introductory press conference into a Rockne speech, tapping into his encyclopedic football database to reference local legends expertly, and by the end, the people were ready to carry him out of One Bills Drive on their shoulders, marching from Orchard Park to Cheektowaga to Tonawanda and back again."
"You can’t say the man doesn’t have charisma."
"We know. And there’s a large part of us that misses that already, that dreads what we know will be Todd Bowles’ press briefings that, by comparison, will come off like a man reading the phone book into a microphone."
"Again: What you saw Wednesday was someone who can do something as well as anyone ever did anything."
http://nypost.com/2015/01/14/hey-buffalo-rex-will-deliver-more-laughs-than-wins/
Of course, his point is that what Ryan does so well is not win football games but win the press conference.
He argues that Rex will probably disappoint the Bills like the Jets but it will take a long time for fans to realize it as Rex is so charismatic.
"It’s been 15 years since you were in the playoffs. He guaranteed you’ll taste that again. When he came here, it had been 40 years since the Jets had reached the Super Bowl."
"He guaranteed — again and again and again — that he’d lead the way back. When it comes to guarantees, you should know he’s more Ewing than Namath."
"More miss than Messier."
"Of course, it will take you awhile to catch on to that. It’ll take awhile before you believe your own lying eyes. You will see his indifference to offense, and your first reaction will be: He trusts his assistants, as he should! You will see him wrestle with the clock at the end of either half and say: Hey, it can happen to anyone!"
"You’ll see the specialties of every Rex game day — somewhere between two and four inexplicably wasted timeouts, at least two flags for 12 men on the field, the occasional 15-yarder that should be retitled “the surcharge of Rex treating his players like men and not robots” — and …
"Well, you’ll see enough of those, and suddenly …"
"Well, truthfully, it won’t matter to a lot of you, even as the seasons pass and you realize that for all the fun, all the one-liners, that you still haven’t gotten any closer to the Super Bowl."
"It’s really astonishing. By the end of his run in New York, even most Yankees fans were OK seeing Joe Torre leave, and all he’d done was deliver four championships and gone 12-for-12 making the playoffs; yet there are still an awful lot of Jets fans who’d have been perfectly happy if Ryan had gotten an extension to stay here. Maybe for life."
As a Yankees fan it also shows that we have impossible standards for our team. When we-as we did Torres's last year-win a lot of regular season games make it a round in the playoffs but don't win it all-even if we get to the Series-it feels like failure. There is an extreme gap between the Jets fan and the Yankees fan. Jets fans thought Rex's first 2 years were epic because they got to 2 straight championship games and lost.
For Yankees fans making it to the series before the World Series is abysmal failure.
There's no question Rex will win the press conference every week, count on it. However, when you think of the really strong dominant teams, the kinds of teams that win the Super Bowl or contend every year, how many of these teams have coaches that win the press conference? I mean think of Bill Bellichick. When he has a press conference his strategy seems to be to tank the press conference and say absoultuely nothing even remotely interesting. Or what great one liners can you remember Seattle's Pete Caroll-who was once a Jets coach, which shows the football Gods are merciful and there is life after purgatory?
I can't think of any. Look, who knows. I mean most people give Rex a pass and think it can't possibly be him that's been the problem. Vaccaro is kind of unusual in suggesting that yeah, Rex was the problem.
No question Rex kind of got a pass this time. Everyone still thinks he's a coaching genius. As he himself admitted in that first press conference in Buffalo, however, it it's put up or shut up time for him as a head coach now.
We will see if he's a better man or at least a better coach than his dad, Buddy Ryan, was who was a brilliant defensive coordiantor and who also always won the press conference but never really got it done as a head coach.
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