Rex Ryan Is Backing Up His Talk

Since Jets Head Coach Rex Ryan held his first press conference after he was hired last offseason my mind is split in attempting to form an opinion of him. I personally don't like the bull-headed, loud-mouthed approach Ryan takes to football coaching but at the same time I appreciate that fact that he does things his way and doesn't give a hoot about what other people say. Ryan built his team around defense and a power-rushing attack and has known he has had a contender on his hands since the preseason.

A lot of people have gone back and forth on whether they think Ryan has done a good job as Head Coach or not. I think this is directly linked to the up-and-down play of rookie QB Mark Sanchez and Ryan approval fluctuated accordingly this year. The team's success at the end of the season and into the playoffs has been due to their punishing defense led by All-Pro CB Darrelle Revis and that pounding ground game sparked by rookie RB Shonn Greene. Now that Ryan has the Jets in the AFC Championship game next weekend he is already having the last laugh.

I believe it was Ryan's unwavering confidence in his team's ability to succeed that got his players to buy into his system and allowed the team to flourish. At this point the team can only go as far as Sanchez's inexperienced arm can take them. They are however playing with house money as this team only needed to make to the playoffs for a successful season, the two playoff wins are really a bonus. I'm not particularly confident in the Jets' ability to defeat the Colts for real this time but their defense will keep them in it and if they don't turn it over Ryan and the Jets can be in position to go to the Super Bowl.