Rex Ryan spoke to the media on Monday, here is the transcript.<\/p>\n
Opening Statement\u2026<\/strong> On watching the film\u2026 On if he feels better after this loss than following the loss to the 49ers\u2026 On what makes him believe the team is getting better\u2026 On decision to run the ball in the fourth quarter after recovering the New England fumble\u2026 On if he would have changed any strategy\u2026 On perception from sports talk radio that the team played scared at the end of the game\u2026 On if McKnight showed anything by playing through an injury\u2026 On whether they can close out games by having Sanchez pass\u2026 On where the team stands with the use of Tebow\u2026 On the status of Jeff Cumberland and Shonn Greene\u2026 On if the team can put together enough wins to make the playoffs\u2026 On Isaiah Trufant defending Wes Welker and Demario Davis starting for Bart Scott\u2026 On how you teach a team to win\u2026 On if he can understand why the offensive play selection could be confounding to outside observers\u2026 On throwing on third-and-two in the third quarter instead of running\u2026 On if he would\u2019ve run the slant if he had an opportunity to call the play again\u2026 On the defensive performance\u2026 On what he saw in Trufant to start him for this game\u2026 On being down on Jeremy Kerley in training camp\u2026 On if he has seen in Kerley what he expected\u2026 On Kerley\u2019s production since Santonio Holmes was lost for season with an injury\u2026 On whether he had to give Stephen Hill any words of encouragement\u2026 On whether Hill made rookie mistakes\u2026 Rex Ryan spoke to the media on Monday, here is the transcript. Opening Statement\u2026 I just went through the entire game and clearly when you look back on it, we definitely had opportunities to win that game, a play here, a play there. Obviously, it doesn\u2019t matter. Once you lose, that\u2019s the end result. At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15972,"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":[1337,213,491],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news","9":"category-player-interviews"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rex1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-49B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15971","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15974,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15971\/revisions\/15974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI just went through the entire game and clearly when you look back on it, we definitely had opportunities to win that game, a play here, a play there. Obviously, it doesn\u2019t matter. Once you lose, that\u2019s the end result. At the end of the day, that\u2019s all you really care about. I will say this – we\u2019re a much better team right now. We\u2019re playing much better than we were three weeks ago as a football team. I\u2019ve seen this team improve on the practice field. Obviously, with the games that we\u2019re playing, we\u2019re just not there yet. We have to keep going and keep getting a little better. We have to win these types of games. I think that\u2019s what has to drive our team to prepare and get better. Obviously, that\u2019s our mission. When you look at it, we have to do something this week that we haven\u2019t done since I\u2019ve been here, and that\u2019s sweep Miami. That has to be it. That\u2019s the only thing that has to be on our mind. We have to learn from mistakes that we made in this game and move forward.<\/p>\n
\nI just realize how close we are. Jeremy Kerley slips out of a break and that\u2019s a play that\u2019s going to win a game. You can point at different things. You have to give the opponent credit, number one. (Tom) Brady hits a ball into three guys covering a guy that has a window that big, he feeds it right in there. I would start by giving the opponent credit. New England deserved the game. We made too many mistakes to win that game. To their credit, they made enough plays to win it.<\/p>\n
\nI know we\u2019re a better team. We had to improve as a football team and we did. I see us getting better. We have a ways to go to get to where we want to get to, but you see it. We\u2019re making strides. It\u2019s not by luck, or anything else, it\u2019s by design. The way guys have approached how they are in the classroom, how they are on the practice field, you see it carrying over. We still have a ways (to go). We\u2019re not where we need to be yet. We have to keep working hard and start winning games like this.<\/p>\n
\nJust in all areas. We ran the ball effectively at times against a team that is pretty good at stopping the run. I thought (Mark) Sanchez was really outstanding. Most of the game, he was outstanding. (He was) accurate with the football and our protection was good. I see it, that we\u2019re getting much better. I thought our coverage, obviously you\u2019re challenged with not one or two guys, you\u2019re challenged with five guys when you\u2019re playing New England. There were matchup problems all across the board and I thought we did a relatively good job against them. We did a good job handling all of their no-huddle and all of the substitution things. There are some things pointed in the right direction. We just have to get a little bit better.<\/p>\n
\nWhen you look at it, we had some success running the football in the previous series. Really, Joe McKnight had some big runs on them. I thought we felt good about running the football, or we wouldn\u2019t have called them, obviously. That was it. We knew we needed the first down. We were trying to get a first down. It wasn\u2019t like we were just trying to burn their time outs. We were trying to get a first down to win the game. To their credit, they made some plays.<\/p>\n
\nIn hindsight, when you lose a game, you can say, \u201cWell, I wish I would have called this or this.\u201d That\u2019s always going to be there, but at the time, it felt good with what we called. When you look back at it, sure you can point to a million different things now.<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s not even close. We go down (there) to win. I think saying we played scared is somebody who has probably never played the game in his life. That\u2019s a ridiculous comment. That\u2019s certainly not what we do. Everything we do is to play to win the game. You\u2019re running traps on two of their best players and they caught two balls in those situations, where if the ball is thrown here or there, we\u2019re feeling a little different today. Again, if you lose, people have the right to any opinion they want. They can make that (assumption), but to say we were scared, that\u2019s not even close to being accurate.<\/p>\n
\nAbsolutely. He didn\u2019t just show me, I think he showed all of his teammates that. Playing with the ankle injury and he\u2019s got that explosive speed you look for. He had a couple of plays, even in overtime, he\u2019s close to sending it out through the back. The guy makes a great play on him. I think it was (Jerod) Mayo, made a great play or that one is out of the gate, but he was impressive. He\u2019s a tough kid, we all know it. He\u2019s a kid who played with a hyperextended elbow and a separated shoulder last year. We know he\u2019s tough. It\u2019s just really unfortunate that we couldn\u2019t get a win.<\/p>\n
\nYes, when you look at it, we\u2019ve done that (before). We\u2019ll always do what we think is in the best interest of our team to be successful, whether it\u2019s run (or) pass. We\u2019ve closed out games running the football. We\u2019ve closed out games throwing the football. When we beat New England in the playoffs, we ran Shonn Greene and rode him to victory. Same thing in San Diego, there are times when you do that. There are also times like when we played Houston (in 2010), (where) you just put it on Sanchez\u2019s back. Detroit (in 2010), there are all those types of times. I have faith that you can put it in Sanchez\u2019s hands. I also have faith that we can put it in our running game. Sometimes, you have to give the opponent credit, which I always do, but that\u2019s the way it should be. They\u2019re the ones that came up with enough plays to win the game.<\/p>\n
\nRight now, we\u2019re at 3-4 with the entire football team, Tebow (and) everybody. That\u2019s not good enough. We understand that. We have to get better. We\u2019ll definitely work. To say that teams aren\u2019t preparing for him, I think, is wrong. You look at them, that team right there (New England), jumped to an odd front, completely out of what they were doing. There were different things. Each team (has) to prepare for you. We know that teams are doing that. Would I like to see him get things going? Absolutely, but again, we have to look at everything we do and find ways to get better.<\/p>\n
\nI know Shonn (Greene) was able to return to the game. I think that\u2019s a good sign. Jeff (Cumberland) was not, so we\u2019ll see how that is as the week progresses. I have no update on those two (and) really anybody yet.<\/p>\n
\nYes, but I think the first thing is (that) we better get a win this week. That\u2019s where our focus is. You\u2019re going to have a team that\u2019s fresh coming in there. We\u2019ve never swept Miami since I\u2019ve been here. That\u2019s something that we know is going to be a huge game (and) that\u2019s where our focus is. You just have to get there. You can\u2019t look at what\u2019s down the road. You just have to look at what\u2019s in front of you and that\u2019s the only way we can get it done.<\/p>\n
\nThe young man (Trufant) is playing outstanding for us right now. We thought that was the best matchup we had. Bart (Scott) is playing out there with a toe (injury) that most guys would have taken the last three weeks off to (be able to) play. We have to get him (better) physically. I know mentally, Bart would have jumped out there, but from a physical standpoint, there is no way he could have played that spot. I thought Demario, for the most part, played pretty well. There were a couple plays he probably wishes he had back, but for the most part, I thought he played pretty well for us.<\/p>\n
\n(We just have to) do what we do just a little bit better. I think that\u2019s it. You see where you\u2019re at. It\u2019s easier said than done, but that\u2019s really what you do. There\u2019s no magic formula (where), hey, we\u2019re going to make this call or that call. Whatever it is, you have to just do it collectively and you just have to find ways to get a little bit better. Whether that\u2019s communication, whether that\u2019s studying, whether that\u2019s physically, we just have to find that. If you have the answers, I\u2019ll sign up for it. The magic formula, in my opinion, has always been hard work.<\/p>\n
\nI can see on the outside that we had over 400 yards in that game. There were a lot of positives in that. I thought we ran the ball effectively at times and we threw the ball effectively at times. From the outside, I think that\u2019s the perspective I had. I see this team getting better and that\u2019s it. Sometimes, if you run the ball and we pop one on them, than we\u2019re sitting here with a different conversation.<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m talking about. You get one perspective here (and) one perspective there. If one is effective, we\u2019re having a completely different conversation. If it doesn\u2019t work, then we can question everything and I understand that. That\u2019s part of the beauty about being a football fan. Obviously, I wish the result was different, but it wasn\u2019t. There are reasons why we call everything we call. That\u2019s because we think it\u2019s going to be effective. That\u2019s the best way. It gives us the best opportunity to be successful and that\u2019s the only reason we call them.<\/p>\n
\nNot right now I wouldn\u2019t, because it was incomplete.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to go back in hindsight and say we shouldn\u2019t have thrown a slant.\u00a0 I agree. Right now, absolutely I agree, because it never worked.\u00a0 Now just the opposite of, well, we shouldn\u2019t have run, we should\u2019ve thrown the slant.\u00a0 Whatever.\u00a0 If you look at it in hindsight, then it\u2019s easy. You have all the answers.\u00a0 But at the time, obviously, we\u2019re making a call that we think we\u2019re going to be effective (with) and we\u2019re going to have success with. We got the one-on-one coverage, it\u2019s just the execution was a little off. That\u2019s what happened with that slant.<\/p>\n
\nI thought we knew it was going to be tough. You\u2019re never going to just completely stop that team.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to have to find ways to get off the field. You\u2019re going to have to disrupt them a little bit (and) try to get them off a spot. I thought we did that pretty well, for the most part, during that game. But again, you have to give them credit. I don\u2019t think anybody has stopped them completely. We\u2019ve had times when we\u2019ve held them to under 300 yards or something, but it\u2019s not an offense that is easily stopped.\u00a0 I mean, they\u2019re number one in the league, and for good reason, they have players. They\u2019ve had a system where they\u2019ve been together a long time. They feed off each other, they probably can communicate, not just verbally, but they can communicate nonverbally and everything else. It\u2019s tough. They\u2019re well-coached, you know it\u2019s going to be tough, but I think we\u2019re a team that actually plays defense. The way we play defense gives us a chance. If we were just going out there playing cover two, you get lit up like most teams.<\/p>\n
\nYeah, watching him cover a kick, watching him on the practice field, watching him on the game field, he deserves it. He\u2019s been doing a terrific job for us.\u00a0 And he\u2019s such a competitive young man that we thought that gave us our best chance. I think going against Wes Welker, that\u2019s about as tough as it gets. I thought he really competed well.<\/p>\n
\nLet\u2019s look at that now. I\u2019m down on Kerley (in camp) because he wasn\u2019t out there. I expected more. This is what I expected from Kerley.<\/p>\n
\nPretty much.<\/p>\n
\nRight, but he\u2019s not necessarily filling in for Holmes because he\u2019s playing the slot. That\u2019s where it\u2019s interesting. When we talked about the weapons and all that, when you have Dustin Keller, you see the trouble that gives you.\u00a0 (The) same thing the trouble that (Aaron) Hernandez gives you, whoever.\u00a0 (When) you get an excellent receiving tight end, there are some match-up problems that you have. (The) same thing with an excellent slot receiver, whether it\u2019s Welker, whether it\u2019s Kerley, this (Davone) Bess kid from Miami. They\u2019re match-up problems and that\u2019s what Kerley brings to us. When I was down on him, challenging him, I wanted to see that he would get our offense down mentally. He\u2019s a smart kid but I was disappointed with him that I\u2019d see mental mistakes and that\u2019s not him. I was just down on the fact that he wasn\u2019t out there and I think that\u2019s it. But Jeremy, that\u2019s exactly what we expect, I think all of us did.\u00a0 Going into last year, the way he took off at the end of last season and now the way he\u2019s approaching it now, I think is the guy that we expected.<\/p>\n
\nNo, I think the thing with Stephen is, he was playing a terrific game. I mean, he really was (terrific). Some of the blocks that you\u2019re not maybe necessarily going to see, he was knocking people on the ground, he was doing that, he was catching the football. It would\u2019ve been probably his best game and then he has the critical drop. Now obviously, he has to catch that ball, there\u2019s no doubt, he needs to catch that pass. But when you see the other things, there are so many positives and then he has this big drop. Now, that\u2019s not going to be swept under the rug, he knows he needs to catch that ball. But I was really pleased up until that point with how he was playing.<\/p>\n
\n(I) just think you can\u2019t buy experience and he\u2019ll get better the longer he plays.\u00a0 I think he wanted to make a play so bad and sometimes, he knew he had a lot of separation, and sometimes in those situations, he\u2019s not the only receiver that will (say), \u201cI\u2019m going to go make a play,\u201d (and) try to start running with it before you catch it. I think that was just it. But the main thing is, catch the football, then we\u2019ll run afterwards.\u00a0 I think if you ask him, I\u2019m sure that\u2019s what he\u2019s going to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"