FTR, if anyone wants a copy of Rex's book, "Play like you mean it..", pm me. You can have it at the rock bottom price of... FREE. First come, first serve as there is a limited quantity of 1 still available. Yes, I am serious...
The more Rex goes on about it the more I feel like Amaro was probably spot on with his comments. If someone says something completely ridiculous and outlandish to the point where it's not even worth your time most people would just say "well that's categorically wrong and I have nothing else to say about it" but he keeps going on and on about it which makes it seem like Amaro really struck a nerve because there is at least an element of truth to it. Plus you figure that Rex is such a "players coach" (or in his case wants to be best friends with the players) I can't imagine him cracking down on a guy for being 5 minutes late to something here and there.
Rex is his own worst enemy. His unprofessional big mouth far an exceeds his football acumen on any give Sunday. You can be proud of your team without constantly trashing everyone else's. His threats do no go unnoticed and opposing teams take it personal. In a political driven league where everything you say or print will be amplified and image is everything it wont be long before his outspoken BS will cost his team plenty. He has yet to learn the meaning of taking "the high road" I was Rex's strongest supporter at first, but it was apparent that he was rapidly transforming into a legend in his own mind at the detriment of his team. IMHO silence is golden when you play division rival for near 40% of your games. Too much talk is unhealthy particularly when you cant back it up. Amaro was critical of his own team, a rookie mistake, Rex responded with empty threats against another team and another player. Childish and unprofessional at best. Bowles behind the scenes must have send a strong message for Amaro, and everything quieted down . Let your performance do the talking. Winner perform, buffoons gloat. As they say in South America "Beware, the fish dies by the mouth" and Rex is consistently sticking his big mouth out there for every hook to catch. It want be long before his mouth gets him an his team in deep trouble. Bowles silence is a refreshing welcome to the Jets. Something tells me he is the coach we always wanted, passionate, talented, respected and professional. All of it and without the mouth.
You know how refreshing this is to me??? Man, Bowles is handling this like a professional and even if he does have something in mind just in case Amaro takes an unnecessary hit, he's not gonna put it on blast. Handling Our Business quietly. Whatta concept!!
We all saw how much his you take one of ours we take 2 of yours comment was nothing but bullshit when that scumbag Pouncy dove at Revis's knee and ended his season.
Rex has a new audience to listen to his buffoonery in Buffalo, his schtick will get old there just like it did here once they see the production on the field never measures up to the mouth on the sideline.
Sorry to say U posters just do not understand a egoist like RR. His ego is telling him he is the greatest but then he has to attempt to reconcile his firing by the NYJs with his psyche which is telling him he is beyond reproach & is superior to all others HCs & should never have been canned.
A leopard never changes his spots. Rex was a loudmouth blowhard here, he's going to be a loudmouth blowhard in Buffalo. Sadly he was also a good-to-great defensive coach here, and I expect that to carry to Buffalo as well At the end of the day it's all going to come down to two things - whether he can learn from some of his mistakes here and keep _the team_ more under control, and whether he can somehow develop a serviceable offense. He was a Gholston-sized bust at building an offense with us, so it was time for him to go. I suspect he won't get 6 years more at this stop.
LOL at calling Rex "butthurt". The level of butthurt on this board is going to be earth shattering if the Bills sweep the Jets. And the worst part is, we have Geno, so a sweep is a perfectly reasonable assumption.
Myth. No professional team plays harder (or better) because of bulletin board material. That's something the media invented to sell newspapers.
No.. Not really. If the Bills win, no biggie. The Jets finished last in the AFCE so it would be a bigger embarrassment for Loudmouth to lose the the Jets than for the Jets to lose to the Jills. If the Jets win, its an upset. If the Bills win, they're supposed to. We're the underdogs so sorry to rain on your Rex parade. If anyone will be butthurt it most likely would be Rex and Michelle's last fanboy if the Jets beat the Jills.
Of course Amaro was right, anyone that wasn't in a cave the week of the San Diego game knows this, that's never been the issue. He probably shouldn't have been the one to say it and I'm worried he's going to look like an ass opening day when he has one catch and three drops, but Rex's response is so over the top it definitely comes off as the cries of a guilty man. Like Rafael Palmeiro finger-pointing on Capitol Hill he never did steroids then getting busted two months later.
Willie Colon has come out and backed up Amaro. Say what you want about Colon and his penalties but he's been in the league a long time and he's a respected presence in the locker room. “It’s the little things like that, the little things you just don’t talk about. You be on time; you be accountable for your actions.” “It’s one of those things where as a pro ball player it’s not hard to be there on time."
And maybe if Rex isn't SOOO over the top in his response Colon doesn't feel compelled to come out and back Amaro.
I like Peter King's take on this from his MMQB column. 4. I think for someone who says he doesn’t regard Jace Amaro as an important figure in the Jets-Bills rivalry, Rex Ryan seems to be spending an awful lot of media time on Jace Amaro.