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It's not easy to like Rex Ryan. So unless you have a thing for big, fat, pompous, swearing, swaggering, sexually-strange windbags, you're probably pulling for New England on Sunday.
To be more precise, you're probably hoping Bill Belichick kicks Ryan's butt so badly that Rex will never be able to look at feet the same way again.
Sorry, but your anti-Ryan fetish is about to get even more severe.
Believe it or not, the Jets coach will out-scheme the Patriots' resident wise man. I didn't believe it either until my boss told me I had to defend Ryan in this week's tussle. But after extensive film study and a good pedicure, I've seen the wisdom of Rex's ways.
I can't say he's a better coach than Belichick all 365 days of the year. He doesn't have to be.
"I recognize he's the best and all that," Ryan said, "but I'm just trying to be the best on Sunday."
Belichick needs this distinction like we need oxygen -- he lives for these games. That's why the Patriots are going to win by double digits on Sunday and then after the game Bill Belichick is going to jog across the field, pull his hand out of that hoodie jacket and avoid engaging Rex Ryan in any kind of conversation.
-- Clay Travis on why Bill Belichick and the Patriots will down Rex Ryan and the Jets
If he is, it will be another step toward the greatest thing to happen to the Super Bowl since Joe Namath. Imagine Ryan in front of 3,925 starving microphones for an entire week. He'll provide more entertainment in the first two minutes than Belichick has in the 14 or however many Super Bowls he's won. All Rex has to do is win Sunday and then lead the Jets to victory in the AFC Championship game.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Sunday's game in Foxboro has become the biggest referendum yet on coaching styles. In one corner you have a coach who hates attention. In the other you have Rex.
Which attitude will prevail?
Easy answer -- take the team with Tom Brady.
That aside, you go with the guy who doesn't want to give the other team a scintilla of extra motivation. The guy who would slam down the phone if HBO's "Hard Knocks" called. The guy who could put a bottle of 5-Hour Energy to sleep.
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/12/rex-ryans-jets-writing-their-own-broadway-script/
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