{"id":13058,"date":"2012-06-20T21:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T01:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=13058"},"modified":"2012-06-20T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T01:49:06","slug":"did-rex-ryan-send-a-message-to-coples-at-rookie-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/06\/20\/did-rex-ryan-send-a-message-to-coples-at-rookie-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Rex Ryan Send A Message to Coples At Rookie Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

A controversy was created at Jets rookie camp when first round pick Quinton Coples was told to sit out of 11-on-11 drills during the second day of practice.\u00a0 Members of the media went into a frenzy on twitter about the Coples \u201cbenching\u201d<\/a> and asked if he were injured.\u00a0 To his credit Coples simple said he was told to stay out, \u201cIf the boss says sit down, sit down. That’s what I did.”<\/p>\n

Coach Rex Ryan explained that Coples was left out of drills to get a look at other rookie defensive linemen <\/a>since it might be his last opportunity to see certain players in action.\u00a0 While Ryan\u2019s explanation is plausible ask yourself this question:\u00a0 Didn\u2019t Ryan know leaving Coples out of the entire drill would create a story?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coples was considered a top 10 draft talent but fell to the Jets at 16 mostly due to work ethic concerns.\u00a0 Leaving him out of the drill would look like some sort of punishment given the perception of Coples not being a hard worker.\u00a0 Why not have Coples run some plays in the drill then take him out?\u00a0 This would have made Ryan\u2019s explanation seem more logical, \u201cI wanted to see some of the other guys compete give them an opportunity.\u201d\u00a0 It probably would have at least lessened if not totally eliminated the media hype that Coples was benched for some other reason and Ryan had to know entering his post-camp press conference that the first question would be about Coples non-participation.<\/p>\n

The day before Coach Ryan was\u00a0informed Coples had said he knew the playbook <\/a>already and Ryan reacted with some surprise saying, \u201cThis is one practice and he has four defenses in and our library is a little more extensive than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan is known as a players coach but that does not preclude him from a tweak now <\/a>and then.\u00a0 Remember he would sit quarterback Mark Sanchez in practice and let back-up Mark Brunell run plays with the first team to send a message to Sanchez.<\/p>\n

So why would Ryan want to deal with the media by pulling out Coples unless he was sending him a subtle message?\u00a0 It seems as if Ryan let Coples understand who was in charge and a first round pick doesn\u2019t mean a free ride.\u00a0 Maybe he wanted Coples to realize you never truly know everything, even the playbook.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have to earn it every day or you could be sitting on the sideline real easy.<\/p>\n

There is no way to know this for sure it’s just strange how Ryan handled the situation given the fact it was bound to blow up, if in fact, Ryan really wanted to see other players.\u00a0 The interesting thing is\u00a0since then\u00a0Coples has been a model player no mention of poor work ethic\/taking plays off and seeing him at mini-camp he looks like the real deal, only time will tell, but there is no limit\u00a0to his potential.\u00a0 Just wonder if Coach Ryan nipped any potential problem in the bud giving Coples the focus and understanding about being a professional he\u2019ll need to live up to his talent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A controversy was created at Jets rookie camp when first round pick Quinton Coples was told to sit out of 11-on-11 drills during the second day of practice.\u00a0 Members of the media went into a frenzy on twitter about the Coples \u201cbenching\u201d and asked if he were injured.\u00a0 To his credit Coples simple said he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-3oC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13075,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions\/13075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}