Jets' Ryan On Patriots, Belichick: 'It's Personal'
Ding-ding-ding. Here we go again. Rex Ryan says Monday that the playoff game Sunday between the New York Jets and New England Patriots "is about Bill Belichick vs. Rex Ryan."
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Ding-ding-ding. Here we go again. Rex Ryan says Monday that the playoff game Sunday between the New York Jets and New England Patriots "is about Bill Belichick vs. Rex Ryan."
Tom Brady wants no part of a verbal contest with the New York Jets. "We're going to let our play do the talking as we always do," said Brady.
Confidence is contagious. So is woofing. After several seasons as the runaway leader of the Jets in both categories, it will be interesting to find out this week whether Rex Ryan knows the difference.
The postseason is a new season for the coach of the team with the NFL's best record. For Bill Belichick, past results have little effect on future games. "Now it will be best two out of three. It's probably the way it should be," he said Sunday.
As Nick Folk's kick slipped inside the right upright, just five feet became the buffer between might and misery, between a coach being the class clown and toast of the town.
Next stop on the revenge tour for Rex Ryan and the Gang Green clan: Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and the rest of the rough-and-tumble New England Patriots. Do the Jets stand a chance?
Bitter feuds from the AFC North and East will break out again in the playoffs. Can't wait.
The New York Jets' last-second 17-16 victory over the Indianapolis Colts earned the highest rating since the NFL began airing prime-time wild card games in 2002.
Rex Ryan and the Jets took care of one nemesis by edging Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts. Next up: Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots.
Nick Folk kicked a 32-yard field goal as time expired Saturday night, giving the New York Jets a 17-16 first-round playoff victory over the Indianapolis Colts.
In a rematch of last season's AFC championship game, the Jets look to give the Colts a taste of playoff disappointment in a wild-card showdown Saturday night.
Confidence has not been a problem for Ryan and the Jets since he took the head-coaching job before last season. Especially when it comes to facing the Colts again.
Jeff Capellini, who writes about the Jets under the name Green Lantern, joined Neil Keefe to preview this Saturday's game against the Colts.
James Ihedigbo and Drew Coleman of the Jets joined Boomer & Carton on Friday morning to preview Saturday's huge playoff matchup against Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts.
Both LaDainian Tomlinson and Jason Taylor came to New York in the offseason hoping they could be final pieces for a team that had its sights set on a Super Bowl run. The Jets want to win their first championship since 1969, while the two veterans are aching for their first ever.
As if NFL coaches needed something else to worry about. When the playoffs begin this weekend, they will feature a new rule for overtime.
With his arm, his feet or his creativity, Michael Vick has embarrassed defenders all season. Unless they can limit Vick and his big-play teammates, Sunday could be a long day for Charles Woodson, Clay Matthews and the Green Bay Packers.
While the Colts have been dominating the line of scrimmage lately, Rex Ryan's Jets have struggled at times with the running game on both sides of the ball.
The quarterback learned last week that an 11-year-old fan from Floral Park, N.Y., whom he had befriended, died from a rare form of cancer.
The Jets coach says that "nobody" studies like the Colts' Peyton Manning, but that Patriots' Tom Brady "thinks he does."
Jets kick returner Brad Smith led the NFL with a 27.5-yard kickoff return average and had one TD during December and January.
The baseball writers voted two players, Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar, into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday - but the story here is those that did not make the cut.
It's just another bye week to Bill Belichick — except he doesn't know who his New England Patriots will be playing next.
Do you think the baseball Hall of Fame voters made a respectable stand against players under the 'steroid cloud' on Wednesday, or do candidates like Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro deserve enshrinement in Cooperstown?
Rex Ryan needed to set something straight about Peyton Manning. He's a great player, sure, but he's no touchdown-tossing robot. Not even a rocket-armed superhero, or some indestructible force.
