Rex Ryan obsesses over Peyton Manning
by Brad Wells on Aug 9, 2010 2:31 PM EDT
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PrintIf there is a demon that haunts Jets head coach Rex Ryan, that demon's name is Peyton Manning. While we chuckle and laugh at Ryan's boisterous nature and at his cockiness despite the fact the dude has never won a damn thing as a defensive coordinator or as a head coach, it's hard not to like Ryan. He has tremendous respect for Manning, and seems almost obsessed with beating him.
Earlier today, Sports Illustrated's Ross Tucker Tweeted this:
Then [Rex Ryan] said he wants to play the Colts in the AFC Title Game again this season & said Peyton has cost him two rings. This is awesome.
No offense to Ryan, but if the Saints could beat the Colts 31-17 as they did in Super Bowl 44, they'd have waxed the Jets 55-0. And, please, to suggest that the 2006 Baltimore Ravens would have beaten the New England Patriots that year is absurd. The Ravens were a paper tiger that season. All Indy did was expose them. As the AFC Championship that year proved, the Patriots were a better team than the Ravens.
But, I understand Rex Ryan is as big a homer for his teams; as well he should. However, the quote under-scores Ryan and the Jets' obsession with defeating the Colts. Back in late April, the Jets designed their entire draft around finding players who could help them beat Manning. After the jump, we go into detail...
From the NY Post:
Tannenbaum and Ryan said this pick had a lot to do with the Jets' AFC Championship loss to the Colts when Peyton Manning picked apart their thin cornerback group en route to the Super Bowl."Clearly, that was an issue, certainly," Ryan said.
"This gives us a better chance to compete against the passing attacks we have to face in AFC," Tannenbaum said.
This off-season, the Jets used their first round pick on Boise State corner Kyle Wilson. They also signed Antonio Cromartie from the Chargers, a man whose entire career was made back in 2007 when he picked off Peyton three times in a Sunday night game in San Diego. This was the infamous game where Dwight Freeney broke his foot, Peyton threw six picks, and Adam Vinatieri missed a chip shot field goal late in the fourth quarter that would have won the game for the Colts.
The Jets, and Ryan, have looked to beef up their secondary to counter the Colts passing attack. To counter, the Colts have a healthy Anthony Gonzalez, a further developed Pierre Garcon, newly drafted tight end Brody Eldridge, and the same QB that continues to haunt Rex Ryan: Mr. Peyton Manning.
Oh, and the Colts defense is better. The same defense that knocked Shonn Greene out of the AFCCG and held the run-happy Jets to 86 yards on 29 carries.
Oh, just FYI: The Jets play the Patriots twice a year. Maybe Rex should focus a bit more on the other future Hall of Fame QB who seems to own him. That guy's name is Tom Brady.
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I don't know why
but I really like Rex Ryan – I love that he’s out there 100% supporting his team and exuding the confidence in their ability to win. My husband (a Pats fan) can’t stand him, and says that even if he were the Patriots’ coach, he would hate him. I probably wouldn’t want him for the Colts, either, but boy it is fun to listen to him as a fan of football.
How can you not love a team that does this?
Rex is the man.. no way BP would ever hire him as coach.. he wouldn’t be a puppet and the colts would be 16 0 last reg season
by ColtfaninPitts on Aug 9, 2010 2:52 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
By the way, not sure about costing them the ring last year
but I kind of agree about 2006.
Heading into the playoffs, I thought the Ravens were the best team that year. They were 13-3, and they beat the 14-2 Chargers, a team that really beat the Pats, if not for Marlon McCree forgetting that he should bat down a 4th down pass. I think they could have beaten the Pats that year. The ’06 Ravens defense was the third best in the DVOA era, behind only the 2002 Bucs and 2008 Steelers (as per DVOA). They were really, really good, and the Colts were totally confused on offense in that game.
Either way, I have a soft spot for Rex. He talks a lot, but he definitely is not a sore loser after the fact. There is a great NFL Films clip of last years title game where he just waxes poetic about Manning, saying stuff like “He’s too good, you can’t give that guy an inch.” And, “370 yards passing, unbelievable, just unbelievable.”
EVH+DLR=BFFs........ God I Hope So!!
Also, how does Brady own him
When he took over the DC duties in 2005, the Ravens only played the Pats once (2007) where Rex’s defense made Brady look more mortal than he had ever been in 2007 up to that point. They also split last year. TB doesn’t own Rex. At least not compared to Manning.
EVH+DLR=BFFs........ God I Hope So!!
Gang Green future champs!
Love Rex! Can’t wait to see him expose the Colts weak LT this year!! Rex knows the Colts passing game will be no problem this year with Revis/Cromartie/Wilson combo destroying the soft pony WR’s. Rex’s nightmare this year is going to be the Pats nasty rookie TE duo (Hernandez & G-Force) he knows his secondary will struggle with the size and strength of the Pats TE’s. At the end of the season we all know we will see a green parade in downtown NYC baby! J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets!!
JOKE?!?!?
You think it is a joke? Haha got a riddle for ya ….You want to know what i think is the funniest hing I have ever seen? Peyton’s face after Tracey Porter broke his heart. cough CHOKE!…Atlanta Braves of the NFL!!! J-E-T-S!!! C-H-A-M-P-S!!!
Question:
How long has it been since the Jets won a championship of any kind?
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
2010-11 Season baby! Wooooooo!!! Can’t wait to be dancing in Times Square after the Super Bowl! Probably will be a National holiday in celebration of the best single season ever! Probably going to be 10-15 future HOFers on this team! Sanchez, Revis, Holmes, Cromartie, Jenkins, Thomas, Mangold, Fergusen, Green, Edwards, Scott, Wilson, Keller, Rex Ryan, Leonard!!!
g7on
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Yay!
Didn’t see this until after I posted below.
Why is it that trolls always focus on how their team changed in the offseason but never think that we might be better too?
you know take a look at real blogs like barstoolsports.com both the NY and Boston sites welcome competitive banter because it generates more traffic and hits on the website and I guess the east coast attitude is tougher than the gentle golly-gee midwest
Yes, you're right
Sorry us mid-westerners don’t run our mouths as much. I guess we let our actions speak for us.
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GO BUTLER!!
I have been warned by StampedePoo’s management to relax with my comments because they are hurting everyones feelings till tomorrow!
Rex Ryan quote during the 2006 playoffs Re Peyton:
“He’s a stud”. Enough said.
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
Can't blame you for loving your team,
but why do you have be so obnoxious while you’re at it?
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
by Indy Lori on Aug 9, 2010 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Blindness, I think
I love the Colts dearly (as most of us do) but seriously…you don’t see us blabbing on other teams blogs about how they might as well just give us the Lombardi today! Last time I checked there are 31 other teams that want it just as much…
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GO BUTLER!!
Oh no, not this gangrene crap again.
I just threw up in my mouth a little. Please, let’s be good fans and at least wait until the week before the game to start the “we’re gonna whoop ya” posts. Also, I’m glad you can spell Jets – you are doing better than the guy who showed up on national TV with a NY JEST sign (man, I wish I had saved that one).
revis
Too bad revis is holding out the entire season.. I’ll let someone else remind you about clark
by ColtfaninPitts on Aug 9, 2010 3:41 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Somebody get this fucking troll out of here, eh?
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GO BUTLER!!
that'll be the day i eat my hats
fyi i have like 100 different hats. its never gonna happen.
"I'm pretty sure my cats been reading my diary"
it's called the Lombardi, jackass
If your team held it once in awhile, their dumbass fans might remember it…
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This Is Bizarre
What is Rex Ryan supposed to do? Wish Manning and the Colts luck on their way to the Super Bowl? Or do everything that he can to beat the top team in the AFC? Or if he beats the Colts in the playoffs, is he supposed to be mortified with grief and anger over besting a morally superior franchise and QB? (Most Colts aren’t angry at the Saints, Pats and Chargers for beating them in the playoffs, but rather for the fact that they LIKED DOING IT AND ARE CONVINCED THAT THEY WERE THE BETTER TEAM AND DESERVED TO WIN, AS OPPOSED TO TAKING THE POSITION THAT THEY WERE THIS UNDESERVING BUNCH WHO SOMEHOW GAME THE SYSTEM WITH LUCK AND CHEATING TO ROB THE COLTS YEAR AFTER YEAR.)
And as for “Maybe Rex should focus a bit more on the other future Hall of Fame QB who seems to own him. That guy’s name is Tom Brady” … first off, Tom Brady and the Patriots haven’t been a factor in the playoffs since the Super Bowl to end the 2007 season, and even that was their first Super Bowl trip since 2005. Like the Troy Aikman Cowboys a decade ago, their run is done, and the Colts have been to 2 Super Bowls since the Pats have won their last one. Wes Welker is hurt, Randy Moss isn’t getting any younger, they still don’t have a big time RB, they only have a couple of playmakers on defense … why fear the Pats? There are 4, possibly 5 teams better than they are in the AFC alone. Second, gee, wouldn’t improving their secondary help them against Peyton Manning AND Tom Brady? If anything, getting CBs and not safeties would help them against Brady more than Manning, because Brady doesn’t have Joseph Addai and Donald Brown at RB.
Strange that the Jets shouldn’t be gunning for the unquestioned top team in the AFC, which is obviously the Colts as the Pats are in clear decline, the Steelers have QB issues (to be kind) and neither the Ravens or the Chargers have proven that they can get past the AFC title game. And stranger that allegedly building a team to stop Manning wouldn’t also be effective in defending against Tom Brady. Unless Brady has turned into a 24 year old running QB or something this offseason, improving your CBs is the best way to defend him too, especially for a team like the Jets that already has a great pass rush.
Desiging your team to beat Manning?
Hmmmm, that tactic sounds familiar.
See Titans, Texans & Jaguars. Hasn’t really worked out for them either.
Word to wise, play to your strengths and stop worrying about beating one team (or a single player for that matter). When teams start doing this, all I can think is that Manning is firmly planed inside their temporal lobe.
"Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing."
-Peyton Manning
Broncos
you forgot the Mike Shanahan run Broncos on that list. Remember, they traded for Bailey, Drafted Darrent Williams and Dominique Foxworth,with their top two picks, brought in John Lynch and Simeon Rice and drafted bust Jarvis Moss all in the name of stopping manning
by metal_militia on Aug 9, 2010 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah,
Shanahan should be first on that list. He was one of the first coaches to say out loud he wanted to build a team to stop Peyton. Didn’t work out too well.
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
Agree, Rex twist is to banket our recivers with great CBs, Our Division desihned their way to sack him but hes to quick o its a different tactic, not sayiing will work, just different
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I think every NFLcoach fears or obsesses over Peyton Manning,
if they know they have to play against him. It’s not just Ryan, he just talks about it out loud.
Look at Belichick last year, going for it on 4th and 2, all out of fear of big P.
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
He forced a coach to kick an onside kick in the Super Bwl at halftime too
EVH+DLR=BFFs........ God I Hope So!!
you mean Curtis Painter?
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
No, he's describing himself. He has a little p
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Rolling on the floor laughing etc. etc.............
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
"As I grow older, the list of people who can kiss my ass grows longer"-Ancient Hoosier Proverb.
He should talk to a surgeon about that.
"Pressure is something you feel if you don't know what the hell you're doing."-Peyton Manning
by P0RKINS2 on Aug 9, 2010 5:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Greg Williams had a different gameplan for each quarter of Superbowl XLIV acoording to Payton.
Now that’s respecting your opponent.
"Pressure is something you feel if you don't know what the hell you're doing."-Peyton Manning
by P0RKINS2 on Aug 9, 2010 5:30 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Good Stuff
Rex is awesome, but should be more worried about winning the division first. Really, he should be more worried about winning his week 1 game first, then week 2, etc.
Remember, without Curtis Painter, the Jets would have been an 8-8 team last year and would have not even made the playoffs.
I don't always drink beer....but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.
Don't burst their bubble.
Jets fans are great because they’ve had NOTHING to root for for years – but they keep on rooting. Let’s be classy and let them have their hopes because the NFL regular season will erase that soon enough.
That said, I think I like the Jets fans A LOT more than Chargers fans.
BBS's point about Ryan needing to worry about Brady isn't that valid.
Brady’s 3 starts vs. Ryan’s Defense:
18/38 (47.4%) 257 yards 2 TDs 1 int. 76.3 QB Rating
23/47 (48.9%) 216 yards 0 TDs 1 int. 53.1 QB Rating
28/41 (68.3%) 310 yards 1 TD. 1 int. 88.5 QB Rating
Compare that to Manning in his 5 starts against Ryan’s defenses:
21/36 (58.3%) 254 yards 2 TDs 0 int. 98.6 QB Rating
15/30 (50%) 170 yards 0 TDs 2 ints. 39.6 QB Rating
13/17 (76.5%) 249 yards 4 TDs 0 int. 157.5 QB Rating
19/28 (67.9%) 271 yards 3 TDs 0 int. 134.7 QB Rating
14/21 (66.7%) 192 yards 0 TDs 0 int. 95.7 QB Rating
26/39 (66.7%) 377 yards 3 TDs 0 int. 123.6 QB Rating
"Pressure is something you feel if you don't know what the hell you're doing."-Peyton Manning
by P0RKINS2 on Aug 10, 2010 12:19 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
meant 6 not 5.
"Pressure is something you feel if you don't know what the hell you're doing."-Peyton Manning
by P0RKINS2 on Aug 10, 2010 12:19 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Brady’s career stats vs. Ryan’s defenses:
69/126 (54.8%) 783 yards 3 TDs 3 ints. 71.6 Passer Rating
Manning’s career stats vs. Ryan’s defenses:
108/171 (63.2%) 1513 yards 12 TDs 2 ints. 110.1 Passer Rating
If you take away both of their worst games against Ryan’s Defense than the numbers are even more skewed:
Brady: 46/79 (58.2%) 567 yards 3 TDs 2 int. 82.6 Passer Rating
Manning: 93/141 (66.0%) 1343 yards 12 TDs. 0 int. 125.1 Passer Rating
"Pressure is something you feel if you don't know what the hell you're doing."-Peyton Manning
by P0RKINS2 on Aug 10, 2010 12:30 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
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