Ryan could barely contain his excitement when asked about the Jets’ defensive line, which is stocked with young and explosive talent.
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Rex Ryan-coached teams have missed the playoffs in each of the past five seasons.
Though Watkins says he’s “definitely” playing, he complained this week of experiencing discomfort in his left foot, which was surgically repaired in April.
Fitzpatrick and Jets will try to earn their first victory of the season, while Fitzpatrick will also be inspired to earn his second win against a Ryan run team. In the season opener, Forte was also the leading receiver for the Jets, who just couldn’t get some very talented wide receivers involved in the game.
Whatever raw emotions the Bills coach felt toward his former team during his first season in Buffalo previous year have dissipated with time.
Ryan is now in Year 2 with the Bills.
Be the Bullies, but be disciplined: When he arrived in Buffalo, Rex Ryan told Bills fans that he planned on “being the bullies”, but in this meeting, the Jets are the one’s in position to fill that role with a monster front-seven that racked up 7 sacks last week. “I forgot to how to f–ing coach”. But, on offense, more times than not he looks like he doesn’t know what he is doing. He did anything but in Week 1, failing to keep his offense on the field and racking up a paltry 111 yards and zero touchdowns. “No, it’s about us in this room, holding this damn trophy saying we won the whole motherf–“, he said.
“I know it’s early in the week, but I guess we’ll see how it progresses, how he progresses”. Here we are. Here the f-k we are. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll be the first m–f– that goes.
“I don’t know if I’m around 100 or 95 percent or whatever”, said Watkins, who had two screws inserted into his foot in April to fix a stress fracture. “I’ll take every f–ing bullet known to man”.
Ryan quoted famous boxer Muhammad Ali, and later told his team the “best revenge is massive success” this season. That’s the thing when you’re too much style and not enough substance – patience grows thinner with every stop.
This is the same Ryan who is still trying to deliver on that White House visit he promised so long ago, this time with a different team. “So when you have a guy like Quincy running down the middle of the field and catching a lot of balls, eventually it will swing back our way”.
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“We’ll come out here this week, and if we have a great game, then you won’t even talk about last week”, he said. “Anybody knows to win the division, you have to go through Buffalo, Miami and New England”. We’re obviously coming off a loss and we’ve got to right the ship. “But aren’t we the guys for the f– job?”
