Rex Ryan is on a mission to return to the Jets

One man is already seemingly making an attempt to get his foot within the door to turn into the following head coach of the Jets.

ESPN analyst and former Jets and Payments coach Rex Ryan appeared to be campaigning arduous to be thought of as a candidate for the place throughout an look on ESPN New York’s “Bart & Hahn.” 

Ryan argued towards blowing up the Jets’ roster when he began to make some extent that he would have the ability to get the crew’s present expertise pool to win. 

“I have a look at it this manner, blow it up? We’re going to blow the opponents up,” Ryan advised hosts Alan Hahn and Bart Scott, who performed for Ryan throughout his time on the Jets. “There’s method an excessive amount of expertise on this crew to play the way in which we’ve been taking part in. How arduous are you able to get a man to play? That’s the factor. No one has seen a crew that’s going to play as arduous as this crew’s going to play sooner or later, belief me. If I’m the man, belief me.”

Ryan served because the Jets head coach by one of many franchise’s extra profitable durations in latest reminiscence, although the vibe shortly shifted. 

The Jets went 46-50 throughout Ryan’s run from 2009-14, which included back-to-back journeys to the AFC championship recreation in his first two seasons. 

Nonetheless, the success shortly fizzled out, and he completed with dropping data in two out of his final three seasons. 

Ryan argued throughout Thursday’s radio look that there wasn’t one other candidate on the market that might embrace the Jets tradition. 

“That’s what’s going to separate me from all these different guys you’re going to usher in. Your Grudens or whoever. Give me a break,” he continued. “They ain’t New York Jets. I’m all concerning the Jets. And the nice factor is, yeah, you get a second likelihood at it and that doesn’t occur fairly often. Nicely, when it does it’s normally particular. We’ll discover out if I get that likelihood or not. If not, I hope they’ve one hell of a man in place trigger I nonetheless wish to be a fan of the Jets. I nonetheless wish to be, however once I go searching I do know no person is healthier than me.”

Ryan had used one other ESPN New York present earlier this week to counsel that the Jets can be in a greater spot than they’re now if he was on the helm. 

The previous NFL coach mentioned on “DiPietro & Rothenberg” on Monday that the crew can be “most likely undefeated” if he had the job. 

The response got here after he had been requested the place he thought the crew can be if he was nonetheless teaching them. 

The Jets are 3-8 as they enter their bye week, as their season has all however come to an finish after beginning the 12 months with Tremendous Bowl aspirations.