I have my own Bloomberg terminal at work. I saw this scrolling headline today. Bet USA is handicapping who is going to be the next Head Coach of the Jets: Rex Ryan Is Favorite to Become Coach of NFL?s Jets, BetUS Says 2009-01-06 15:29:52.766 GMT By Erik Matuszewski Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan is the favorite to get the New York Jets? coaching job, followed by Steve Spagnuolo of the New York Giants, according to the Internet gambling Web site BetUS.com. Ryan was given 3-2 odds to replace Eric Mangini after spearheading a defense that was second in the National Football League during the regular season, helping the Ravens to a 12-5 record. Spagnuolo, the Giants? defensive coordinator, is listed as the 2-1 second choice to take over the Jets and the 3-2 favorite to become coach of the Denver Broncos. The 46-year-old Ryan has spent the past four seasons in charge of Baltimore?s defense. Last year, he interviewed for the team?s head coaching post that eventually went to John Harbaugh. ?He?s sitting at 3-2, which almost makes him a lock in the world of money lines,? BetUS spokesman Reed Richards said in a telephone interview from the Costa Rica-based Web site?s office. ?Our analysts look at a lot of different things. We look at who would be the right fit for that kind of an offense, we look at who the coordinators would be, and it looks like Rex Ryan has got to be the guy.? With odds at BetUS of 3-2, a winning $200 bet on Ryan would return $300. Ryan?s father, Buddy, also a defensive specialist, was an assistant on the Chicago Bears? Super Bowl-winning team in 1986. He also coached the Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles, compiling a 55-58-1 record. More Choices Jets offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer is one of three candidates with odds of 4-1, along with former Ravens coach Brian Billick and ex-Oakland Raiders and University of Nebraska coach Bill Callahan. Callahan spent last season as an assistant head coach for the Jets. Mike Martz, former head coach of the St. Louis Rams, has odds of 8-1 to join the Jets, according to BetUS.com. Those were the only former coaches and assistants listed by the gambling site. The Jets fired Mangini after losing four of their last five games to miss the playoffs with a 9-7 record. Team officials have already conducted interviews with Ryan, Spagnuolo, Schottenheimer and Callahan. Trying to determine who will be the Jets? ninth coach in the 20 years is as popular among bettors as placing wagers on the team?s regular-season games, BetUS?s Richards said. Among those who play in fantasy football leagues, it?s more prevalent. ?They really tend to look at the proposition betting and outside of the mainstream betting lines,? Richards said. ?They opt for this type of play because they get caught up in the drama. This is the male soap opera, they love this stuff.? Spagnuolo, Broncos Spagnuolo is the favorite to replace Mike Shanahan as coach of the Broncos, according to BetUS. The 49-year-old Spagnuolo has spent the last two years directing a defense that helped the Giants win the Super Bowl in February 2008 and claim the top seed in the National Football Conference playoffs this season with a 12-4 record. Spagnuolo was considered for the Washington Redskins? coaching vacancy last year before returning to the Giants. He signed a three-year contract that made him one of the NFL?s highest-paid coordinators at more than $2 million annually. The Broncos fired Shanahan last week following a 14-year tenure that included two Super Bowl titles. Denver has missed the playoffs the last three years and has won only one postseason game since quarterback John Elway retired after the 1998 season. Other NFL teams looking for head coaches are the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, St. Louis Rams and Oakland Raiders. For Related News: U.S. sports news: USPO <GO> For NFL news: NI NFL <GO> --Editors: Vince Golle, Larry Siddons. To contact the reporter on this story: Erik Matuszewski in New York at +1-212-617-8797 or matuszewski@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Sillup at +1-212-617-1262 or msillup@bloomberg.net.
He?s sitting at 3-2, which almost makes him a lock in the world of money lines,? BetUS spokesman Reed Richards said in a telephone interview from the Costa Rica-based Web site?s office. ?Our analysts look at a lot of different things. We look at who would be the right fit for that kind of an offense, we look at who the coordinators would be, and it looks like Rex Ryan has got to be the guy.? bu they're not taking in to account this is the jets
Now that he's so close, I'm not so sure about him. If the Jets always make the wrong decision then logic would tell us that hiring Rex Ryan would be a mistake if they do. Hmm...
I'm just worried. Rex has some of the best players in NFL history playing for him. We obviously don't have anything close to that. You can't coach talent.
the Jets have a poor man's ed reed and a good front 7 with a shutdown corner... he can make the Jets a top 8 defense with what is there now, and he can draft better players for the other positions. he drafts football players who smack you in the face and step on you... not this good guy character bullshit.
i have to disagree. Kerry Rhodes isn't anything close to ed reed. and our front seven aside from harris, pace and jenkins is basically average. comparing the talent on the rosters is ridiculous. The ravens make the jets look like a jv squad.
at the end of the season it looked that way, but in the 1st half this team was stopping the run as good as the ravens were... it was the pass defense that was the problem due to the soft defenses played by the CS. Rhodes is no reed, well no one is, but he is close enough. Rhodes was loved by all the last two seasons and disliked this year. That's a little odd to me... I personally feel the coaches did not put him in position to well by playing him 20 yards off the line. Ryan will change all of that.... I'm not saying that the Jets will be the Raven's defense match for match, but there will be a huge improvement. It also depends on who is his DC. I trust he finds a good one.
well if we are going to experiment with a coordinator this would be the guy maybe we could see if Billick would run the offense
Nice. He'd build up on the talent Mangini has added, and probably coach it better too. Or at least thats the dream. I hope we load out D up again. I want a pass rusher again.
even though he had over 160 tackles this year....he's also 200 years old....it's gotta catch up with him relatively soon. Some stupid team out there will give him an obscene multiyear contract...i just hope it's not the Jets. If we're lucky...and we get Rex Ryan.....maybe the Ravens would let Bart Scott go....i'd be alright with him signing with us
We should've hired his Dad after Ewbanks left (or Chuck Knox) and we blew that one. I agree...I would love to see a return to a time when we were psyched to see our defense come on the field. I know the Philly fans always list their 92 Buddy Ryan bruisers as their favorite team, even over their early championship teams and their 2 Super Bowl representatives. BTW...who's the chick?
