{"id":11001,"date":"2012-02-24T14:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2012-02-25T19:13:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T23:13:15","slug":"rex-learns-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/02\/24\/rex-learns-a-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Rex Learns A lesson, SB Guarantee A Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rex Ryan after going through the train-wreck end of the 2011 season, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-nfl-combine-notes-20120224,0,183972.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fsports+%28L.A.+Times+-+Sports%29\">has realized<\/a> that maybe, just maybe that guaranteeing a Super Bowl every year probably isn&#8217;t the best of ideas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I know what everybody is thinking, all right,&#8221; the bombastic coach said in his opening comments at the podium. &#8220;The return to the infamous Super Bowl guarantee was here. \u2026 Looking back, obviously it was a huge mistake to make that guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the time we were coming off two [AFC] championship games, I really thought it would be a thing that would actually motivate our team, you know, to really talk about the Super Bowl, to focus on the Super Bowl. But in hindsight, I think it put undue pressure on our team and we kind of lost focus and really we lost focus on what we do best.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That and the offensive line was a mess since day 1 along with the lack of a pass rush but moving on to another quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Obviously, we had a terrible season,&#8221; Ryan said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll take full responsibility for it. I think part of that guarantee really contributed to that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were some lessons well-learned. I can promise you. But I know, looking individually at myself, there are several things I can improve in and get better. I&#8217;m looking forward to this season. I know I&#8217;ll be better and I know each one of our guys will be better. I believe that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I sure hope so Rex, I sure hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rex Ryan after going through the train-wreck end of the 2011 season, has realized that maybe, just maybe that guaranteeing a Super Bowl every year probably isn&#8217;t the best of ideas. &#8220;I know what everybody is thinking, all right,&#8221; the bombastic coach said in his opening comments at the podium. &#8220;The return to the infamous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-2Rr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11045,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}