{"id":2713,"date":"2009-08-16T19:37:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T00:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2009-08-16T19:37:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T00:37:53","slug":"rex-ryan-press-conference-sun-816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2009\/08\/16\/rex-ryan-press-conference-sun-816\/","title":{"rendered":"Rex Ryan Press Conference: Sun 8\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Courtesy NY Jets PR Department<\/strong><\/p>\n

Transcript of Jets head coach Rex Ryan\u2019s Sunday late-morning news conference:<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to, after the press conference, take you over to watch some tape. Our mindset is we\u2019re trying to build a football team and to be unselfish guys, to care about your teammates and to do things that maybe don\u2019t show up on the stats but just doing things that I think will make us winners. I want to show you a few snaps. I put four plays of special teams, I probably should have made that two [laughter], four offense, four defense and then I put a couple bonus Bart Scott ones in there just so you get a different perspective and you get to see what I see and the things that we look for, things that we challenge our team to do. They won\u2019t always be good plays, but for the most part they are. I put in [Mark] Sanchez\u2019s deep pass and all that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

I just want you to get an idea of what I\u2019m looking for and what I think a Jet is. Sometimes it\u2019s recognizable. Sometimes a guy statistically won\u2019t show up but he\u2019s doing a good job and you\u2019ll see why his play will allow other guys to make plays. It\u2019s an unselfish thing. You can have a whole team of guys committed to doing 100 percent individually. They\u2019ll give everything they have individually, but I\u2019d rather have a group that gives that kind of effort collectively, guys who believe in the team. Guys who want to do things the right way for the team. If you\u2019ve got that, I think you have a much better chance of winning than if you have guys who give 100 percent to themselves. That\u2019s one of the things I try to sell to our guys. I want guys to give 100 percent to the football team. I think you\u2019ll see some of those plays today when we get over there.<\/p>\n

The quarterback situation you guys know. We knew going in, but I wanted to make sure, I checked with the doctors and the trainers to make sure there were no surprises and also let the quarterbacks know that Sanchez will start the game against the Ravens this week. As far as playing time, I\u2019m not really ready to tell you exactly how many snaps. I know both of them will have a hell of a challenge this week. The whole team will. The Ravens are a great football team. Somebody said they watched tape of the Ravens-Redskins game and said there weren\u2019t many new blitzes but they recognized a lot of things. They\u2019re still dialing it up there. It\u2019s going to be a great challenge and I\u2019m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

I thought today\u2019s practice was outstanding. You come off a game, sometimes you come back and maybe your mentality isn\u2019t set to have a long, hard practice and that\u2019s what we did. I told the threes that I want to scrimmage almost every day this week with the third group to make sure they\u2019re ready. Hopefully, we have everything ironed out where we\u2019re not making the mental mistakes that we made in the game. That was embarrassing to me. That\u2019s coaching as well. I put that on my plate and all of our coaches. We need to make sure that they\u2019re representing the Jets in a better fashion than what we showed.<\/p>\n

On if he will still name a starting quarterback by the third preseason game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wanted to play Sanchez more. It was good to see [Erik] Ainge have the kind of day he did, I think Erik played great. Hopefully, we\u2019ll get an opportunity to see those guys a little more this week in game action. Again, I know I want to have it done then, but I\u2019m not saying 100 percent it will be. I\u2019m assuming it will, but I\u2019m not going to guarantee that I will have it done by that time.<\/p>\n

On if the plan had always been to start Sanchez for the second preseason game or if he has earned that role\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think he earned the reps with the ones. It might have been down on paper that way in pencil, but he had to earn it. The guy had to earn his reps and I think he has done that. Without question, he has done that.<\/p>\n

On injuries to the team\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jehuu Caulcrick was out. He had an issue. He\u2019s probably questionable for the game. I don\u2019t know the severity of the injury. We\u2019ll see. He probably will play. It\u2019s one of those things where we\u2019ll know later in the week. I think it\u2019s a knee. It\u2019s his left one. I think he did it in the third quarter when he came out.<\/p>\n

The other guys are progressing slowly, painfully slowly, with [Kris] Jenkins and [Darrelle] Revis and, of course, [Damien] Woody and [Alan] Faneca. Faneca is going to be out this game for sure. He had surgery on it [finger]. Again, he could play with a cast on but we want to make sure it\u2019s healed before we put him out there.<\/p>\n

On the play of the reserve offensive linemen\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

I thought it was great. We never got the movement they needed in the running game that I was hoping for and probably Thomas [Jones] was hoping for. When you consider you have three of your best players, three starting offensive linemen and your starting fullback out, I thought they held up well. I thought they did a great job. You can\u2019t ask for much better than that. I thought our protection was great and we did a good job picking up blitzes. That first sack, [Leonard] Little is an outstanding pass rusher and its sometimes hard to get that on the practice field. I thought Wayne [Hunter] did a great job after that.<\/p>\n

On starting offensive linemen returning\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not real sure. It\u2019s too early to tell. We have a Monday night game, so hopefully we can get some of those guys back.<\/p>\n

On quarterbacks going against Baltimore\u2019s defense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you could do anything against that bunch, you could move it against anybody. Baltimore and Pittsburgh have been the best defenses in this league for a long time. I\u2019ve got confidence in our offense, but it\u2019s going to be a great challenge. Yes, it would count for more than moving it against St. Louis. No disrespect to St. Louis but they aren\u2019t the Ravens, they aren\u2019t Pittsburgh. So, those would be the two measuring sticks I would think I\u2019d have.<\/p>\n

On after watching the tape if there was anything in Sanchez\u2019s performance that wasn\u2019t noted Friday night\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, just that when you see the mouth guard fly out that\u2019s kind of interesting [laughter]. But still to have the poise, he looks off the safety. We\u2019ll show that play to you. He actually performed like I thought he would. He\u2019s cool, he doesn\u2019t get rattled and he just went in there and did a great job. He was part of the solution. His teammates worked and they drove it right down the field. Dustin Keller is pretty good. He\u2019s not bad. I might throw to him myself [laughing]. Again, I was pleased with the way Sanchez performed. I was pleased with all three of the quarterbacks. I thought they all played well.<\/p>\n

On the punting competition\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

We tried [Ken Parrish] out today. Again, I\u2019m tired of seeing ground balls hit. We\u2019ve got to do better than that. Our guys know that so we\u2019ll see. You watch some practices and you\u2019re like \u2018man we\u2019ve got Ray Guy here.\u2019 I want to see that. I want to see an NFL punt. Reggie [Hodges]\u2019s numbers look good, but I don\u2019t think those are exactly rockets that he hit. We\u2019re going to find a punter. If he\u2019s here or if he\u2019s on somebody else\u2019s team, we\u2019ve got to find a punter. I don\u2019t care where we go to get one. If he\u2019s here, great, then step up and punt. If he\u2019s not, then we\u2019ll go find one.<\/p>\n

On moving the linebackers around to give Bryan Thomas work at the strong side…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes. We\u2019ve got to get him ready. He\u2019s got to be ready to open up as our starting SAM and then we\u2019ll get Vernon [Gholston] over there at the rush spot. Sometimes, I just don\u2019t want to play Calvin [Pace] because you realize what you\u2019re missing. He\u2019s a heck of a football player. But again, we\u2019ve still got to get him going as well. That way, when he comes back after week four then he\u2019s ready to go. So we\u2019re going to still play him a bunch in the preseason games and make sure his timing is right. Then he\u2019s got to work like crazy when he\u2019s off those four weeks that he can\u2019t be around us. So, we\u2019re definitely working him as well.<\/p>\n

On Gholston\u2019s performance during the first preseason game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

I realized he made two tackles and everybody wants to blame him. What I would like to do is sometimes look past the numbers and let\u2019s see how the unit plays because sometimes you ask a guy, \u201cOk, you\u2019ve got the dirty work here.\u201d We used to do this with Jarret Johnson all the time. I\u2019ll never forget Jarret Johnson won a game ball on defense and he had one assist. He was so mad but he had to do all the dirty work. And sometimes you ask guys to do different things. I think in Vernon\u2019s case he probably had a couple of plays we wish he had back, but then he did some good things as well. He\u2019s strong. You\u2019ll see the sack that David Harris had. You\u2019ll see why he gets it. It\u2019s with the efforts of Vernon and B.T. Bryan Thomas. I think he\u2019s coming, I really do.<\/p>\n

On Harris\u2019 performance during the first preseason game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

He\u2019s a run-hit guy. He loves to play. I think he wishes it was a baseball schedule, 162 games. One of those types of deals because man, he can go. I think those two, right there, are going to be phenomenal together. Then you\u2019ve got Bart [Scott]. He speaks a lot for both of them [laughter]. They counteract. We got that memo through the league. You take Bart then David\u2019s got to be your other backer. I think you\u2019ll enjoy watching Bart play as well. Statistically, I don\u2019t know how many tackles he makes, he knocks the guard out, first play of the game, so you get to see that.<\/p>\n

On Stanley Daniels not being at practice today\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Personal issue. We\u2019ll let him deal with that. When he comes back, he\u2019ll let you know. He was excused. He\u2019ll probably be back later tonight.<\/p>\n

On if Dwight Lowery will have a tough game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

He was out there at 7:30 this morning. He beat everybody out there. He\u2019s working on his footwork. Every corner is going to get beat in this league. We don\u2019t like it, but that\u2019s the nature of the position. He\u2019s got to step back up and battle through it. I have confidence in this young man. He had some things on his plate, some issues he was dealing with. I think it took away from some of his focus to the game, but he\u2019s a guy that I certainly haven\u2019t lost confidence in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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