{"id":17316,"date":"2012-12-29T00:55:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2012-12-29T00:55:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T04:55:45","slug":"rex-ryan-this-is-my-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/12\/29\/rex-ryan-this-is-my-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Rex Ryan: This Is My Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another anonymous source.\u00a0 <del>TMZ<\/del> NY Daily News Reporter Manish Mehta had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/football\/jets\/ax-jets-fail-offense-article-1.1228741\">report on Friday<\/a> that said Rex Ryan would welcome being fired, if the Jets (Woody Johnson) doesn&#8217;t invest in the offense.\u00a0 From Manish&#8217;s story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rex Ryan may be staging his exit after a second consecutive forgettable season if Jets owner Woody Johnson isn\u2019t willing to invest more money into revamping the team\u2019s struggling offense.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News has learned that Ryan, the swashbuckling point man who dominated the headlines for the past four seasons, has intimated to \u201canyone who will listen\u201d that he would be better off getting fired if Johnson isn\u2019t willing to rectify player personnel and coaching issues on offense, according to sources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rex Ryan responded to the report by saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m telling you, this is my team, these are my players. I don\u2019t want to coach somebody else\u2019s players. This is the team I want to coach, period. No way, when I had the conversation with this reporter, I told him that, I flat told him that. Now it wasn\u2019t reported that way in the article and maybe the headlines say a certain thing, but I want everybody to understand that that is not the case. This is my team, that\u2019s how I approach it. This is the only place I want to coach, period. Let\u2019s face it, I wear Jets stuff every single day, every day. I\u2019m proud to be a Jet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rex also says that he spoke to Manish and, &#8220;for whatever reason he elected not to put my response in.&#8221;\u00a0 It is all speculations at this point and when you factor in the report saying <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/topic\/109006-zimmerman-tannenbaum-to-be-fired-on-monday-funday\/\">Mike Tannenbaum will be fired on Monday<\/a> it is sure to be an interesting off season for the Jets.\u00a0 Looks like the circus atmosphere is nowhere close to coming to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another anonymous source.\u00a0 TMZ NY Daily News Reporter Manish Mehta had a report on Friday that said Rex Ryan would welcome being fired, if the Jets (Woody Johnson) doesn&#8217;t invest in the offense.\u00a0 From Manish&#8217;s story: Rex Ryan may be staging his exit after a second consecutive forgettable season if Jets owner Woody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15001,"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":[6,1337],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-home-slider"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Rex_Preview-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-4vi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316","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=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17317,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions\/17317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}