The man just knows how to call a Defense. They are pressuring chad, causing turnovers and are hitting the heck out of the Dolphins. He is loved by his players. They said it best on tv a good coach can relate, can be liked by his players and at the same time have the players understand who is boss. Also nice little snipit on what was just brought up. The Ravens safety Leonard is starting and is playing well. He was brought to the team off the street and because Rex liked him. This is the type of coach we need willing to develop talent wherever its from and to put that talent in positions to succeed. REX FOR HEAD COACH OF THE NYJ PLEASEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
agree that watching this Ravens performance on D is the best advertisement you could ever see for rex ryan. i just don't know exactly how our personnel matches up to what the ravens have. clearly not as good, but are we that far off potential wise? on paper i really think we have great potential with some great D personnel but some of their performances this year were terrible. are they just not as good as we thought, or is it coaching? i would be willing to give ryan a shot though, for sure.
I like Rex Ryan and I love if either Ryan or Spags received job. The thing is that a HC os only as good as their Cooridnators. Its not like if Ryan being a head coach will be completely free to spend all his time on defense. The other thing is the Ravens defense has far superior players on defense than the Jets. The Ravens do not really have good talent on offense. My only concern is that Rex has benefited from a team that has spent all of its resources on defense talent. Whoever is HC-- Cooridnators are important -I personally would like to see the linebacker coach from the Steelers become DC.
That is true with the talent, at the same time he has been given guys that were not highly decorated and they are playing well. For example Bart Scott, Douglas, Gregg and Leonard. I would assume he would know which guys to hire for his coordinators.
He's working with a far superior defense then the Jets have. With that said though I think he is a good fit because. 1. He coaches the 3-4. 2. He is loved by his players. 3. Great talent or not he knows how to call a defense. We would get the Kerry Rhodes of 06 and 07 instead of this years. 4. Guys like Calvin Pace and Vernon Gholston would be able to do what they do best under him. Blitz. 5. Suggs, Scott, and Lewis are FA's. Theres a good chance the Ravens cant bring all of them back. We could end up with one.
Good article on Ryan from SI TO REX RYAN, defensive football must be a game of deception played by 11 Mike Tysons. So it should come as no surprise that while preparing for the 2008 draft last winter, Ryan, the Ravens' defensive coordinator, became intrigued with a safety from Notre Dame named Tom Zbikowski. Ryan watched video of a pro boxing match between Zbikowski, a 214-pound heavyweight, and a pug named Robert Bell on an undercard at Madison Square Garden in June 2006. Thirty-five seconds into the fight Zbikowski threw a left hook to Bell's right cheek that his opponent never saw, then followed with a brutal overhand right. Down went Bell. First-round knockout. "As soon as I saw Zibby in the ring," Ryan recalled last week, "I said, 'We have to have him.' He just destroyed that guy! My kind of guy! We don't chase the pretty girl. We chase the passionate, mean s.o.b. who loves football." Baltimore drafted Zbikowski in the third round last April, and he made the team as a backup strong safety and special teams player. But that's not the end of the story. Ryan made the Zbikowski fight the Saturday-night video show for his defense before the Ravens' first game of this season, against the Bengals. "I wanted his new teammates to see why Zibby was going to kick the crap out of Cincinnati the next day," Ryan says. "They already knew he played like a Raven, but this reinforced it." The next day Zbikowski contributed a knockdown of Carson Palmer on a blindside blitz in Baltimore's 17--10 win. "Football's a game of controlled violence," Zbikowski said last week, "and one of the most important things you do is inflict pain. But what you do here always has a smart idea behind it." Spoken like a true Raven. During a typical week, Ryan's staff meets for long hours and concocts strange schemes that opponents have never seen. In a 2005 game against Houston, David Carr had no idea what hit him when four blitzers—so close to each other that their shoulders almost touched—plowed through the right tackle--guard hole. No one else rushed. Carr got up looking as if he had been hit by a Smart Car. Who rushes four men from the same spot and leaves the other lanes empty? "Rex does a great job on the overload blitzes," says Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau. "It's hard for an offense to adjust to something like that when you don't leave other spots on the field uncovered." Ryan, 46, learned from the master of pressure D—his dad, Buddy, who was all about mismatches and intimidation. Buddy Ryan brought the blitz-dominated 46 defense to the NFL as defensive coordinator of the Bears in the early '80s; cornerbacks were valued for their ability to blitz and play bump-and-run. "My dad was all about outnumbering the protection," Rex says. "If there was a six-man protection, he'd send seven. He had a Cover Zero philosophy." Buddy also taught sons Rex and Rob—the Raiders' defensive coordinator—to use their imagination to outsmart the offense. Rex's schemes seem as risky as Buddy's, but look closer. He never leaves the deep middle exposed. In Baltimore, Rex's creativity has included taking a page from the LeBeau zone-blitz book by dropping 345-pound tackle Haloti Ngata into a shallow zone and leaving the center to block no one, while a blitzer rushes through another gap. Often Ryan will mix zone and man coverage on the same play, using a Cover Two look deep while shadowing shallow receivers man-to-man. "Our system works," Rex says, "because on every play the offense is thinking, Here comes the blitz. And whether it is or not, the quarterback better have a clock in his head, because he's not going to have much time."
He seems to put his players in a position to succeed, whereas many people have argued that Sutton did the exact opposite. Granted they have the edge on the Jets in talent, but scheming and ADJUSTING gameplans are vital to the Ravens' success. It almost seems like they have an extra DB out there and again the Jets looked as if they were one short all year back there. I hope we get him in here
I like Rex and Rivera as my two with Spagnola as number three, I like how they have an identity that is shown in the players
This is EXACTLY the mentality our next HC needs to turn this football team into a playoff contender. Good find, Freeman24.
I read something today that said that the rule has changed and you can interview them between this week and the next game.
Is it just me or have I not seen the Ravens play in the 3-4 all day? I see 4 down lineman all game. Btw, the Ravens possess so much more team speed on defense than we do.
