Joe Bryant said:
PatrickT said:
I could see Ryan's act as being one that gets kinda old after awhile. Obviously that didn't happen as DC in BAL, but he never had this much power in BAL, either.
It'll be all about the wins Patrick.They keep winning and it's all good. They start losing and he's Mangini.
That's what irritating. If Mangini had done this, it would be "he's a control freak / lost the locker room / doesn't understand players". But at 3-0, it's new sheriff in town.
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As I started reading through the thread I was going to post both what Patrick said and what you said. I agree; Ryan will get away with his attitude just as long as he's winning, but it's an attitude that wears thin and once winning no makes it all OK, I think he loses the team.
Mangenius is a good example. The Clowney thing makes Ryan look a little bit hypersensitive to me. I private talk with the player would seem the appropriate thing if he was unhappy with what was said -- although I don't understanding a player voicing wanting to play more being a crime at all -- but to bring the hammer down the way he did was clearly overkill.
Again.. I don't get this at all...I think were seeing the night and day difference between Mangenius and Rex....
Rex is a people person.... Mangini is not.. To me that's what makes people run through a wall for you....
Here's more on the "story":
Jets
Show me you’re a Jet.
That was head coach Rex Ryan’s message to WR David Clowney, who was deactivated for the Titans game.
“I put David down this week. That was my decision, nobody else’s,” Ryan said at his news conference this afternoon the day after the Jets improved to 3-0 with their 24-17 win over Tennessee. “I wanted to see how David would respond.
“David had two options. He could have come down and been upset and pouted, or he could come out and be a Jet and work his tail off and show me that he wants to do it our way.”
After the Jets' Week 2 win over the Patriots, Clowney expressed via his Twitter account that he was “a bit disappointed” concerning his playing time in the game, what he said was a total of five plays.
The coach said he told Clowney early last week that he would be deactivated for the Titans.
“To me it’s like this is about our team,” said Ryan, "understanding that it’s about our team and that no one individual is bigger than the team.”
That’s the impact that Ryan is trying to make, putting no player above another in building a team atmosphere. And Clowney responded with his play during last week's practices.
“He was phenomenal this week in preparation — in fact, I’ll give him the 'scout team player of the week,' ” Ryan said. “He humbled himself and that was it.
“He has no reason not being up. He’s too talented, too athletic, too fast not to be a guy that we can count on down after down. Nobody’s a bigger fan of David Clowney than I am.”
Clowney’s tweets in the recent week have looked look like this:
“My team always comes first so I'ma just keep grinding ... And we gonna keep winning.”
and:
“Its Titans week,.. Watch my team get stronger and stronger every game.”
That’s how Ryan thinks it should be. He was also asked about safety Eric Smith, who he admitted he wasn't high on after the first veterans minicamp in April but since then has been very impressed with.
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