On Thursday New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets.<\/p>\n
Opening remarks\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Guys that were limited today: James Ihedigbo, Sione (Pouha) (back), Trevor Pryce (hip), Dig (James Ihedigbo) (knee\/hip), Darrelle Revis (hamstring), Mark Sanchez (right shoulder), Bryan Thomas (ankle) (and) Damien Woody (knee). Guys that were full (were): (Antonio) Cromartie with a groin, Shaun Ellis (back), Santonio Holmes (quad), Nick Mangold (shoulder), Matt Slauson (thumb), Eric Smith (concussion) and Robert Turner (thumb). There you have it.”<\/p>\n On how Sanchez was physically\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “You guys saw him today. He was zipping the ball around. I don\u2019t know if anybody noticed the one play they put in just for your benefit. We had Sanchez underneath center and flip it to LT (LaDainian Tomlinson) on a toss play and then he ran out for a pass. I think everybody\u2019s wanting to pick it up. I\u2019m like, \u2018That would have been great, but maybe you should have been in gun because you\u2019re ineligible when you\u2019re underneath the center.\u2019 They were playing around. He feels great. He was throwing the ball great today. Like I say, no excuses. They\u2019re going to get us at our best.”<\/p>\n On Damien Woody\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “He\u2019s playing. We\u2019re still rotating him and Wayne (Hunter) with the starting group. I\u2019ll refer to Bill Callahan on that and we\u2019ll go with who he thinks is the best guy.”<\/p>\n On Woody thinking that he is playing\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Well, there you have it.”<\/p>\n On if everybody who is listed as limited is expected to play\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Yes, everybody is expected to play. Period.”<\/p>\n On simulating crowd noise\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I don\u2019t pick out the music. That\u2019s definitely not my iPod because there would be a lot of country on there. Really, if it gets louder than what\u2019s been out there (at practice), I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s possible. I shouldn\u2019t say that. It gets pretty loud in that stadium. The crowd noise is blasting in from one side (and) music from the other side. You guys know how it is when you\u2019re out there for the short time. It\u2019s like, \u2018Can we stop this already?\u2019 Make practice as difficult as you can. That way, in a game, hopefully it\u2019s the same or even easier.”<\/p>\n On the importance of bringing Bart Scott to the Jets\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “He\u2019s the guy that epitomizes what you look for. (He\u2019s) a guy that believes in himself, is tough, self-made, a great teammate, a guy that builds people up and will knock the heck out of you. That\u2019s the type of guy that you want to bring in (and) I wanted to surround myself with. I was fortunate to come here where we already had a bunch of guys like that. We just had to add to it. Take some away and then add to it. I\u2019ve said this for a long time, (there are) guys that can maybe play in the National Football League, but maybe can\u2019t (play) for us (with) the way I envision this team. I\u2019m not saying they weren\u2019t good players, but maybe there was something missing that I thought was important. You bring in Bart, you bring in Jim Leonhard and you surround them with the people we have and it worked. It still works. They\u2019re going to immediately look at the older guys, so it\u2019s important to make sure you had the right guy. The older guys for me, guys that have been in the system a while. You had to get guys who completely believed in it and bought into it and Bart is certainly one of those guys.”<\/p>\n On whether he thinks the lessons from last year\u2019s loss to Indianapolis can be applied to this game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I know every year is different and I know your matchups will be different every year, but certainly you learn. You go in there, you learn from some mistakes you made or whatever, and you move on. The fact you\u2019re playing him (Peyton Manning) in the same exact venue, we\u2019ll be ready for it and we\u2019ll see if we can go out and get the job done. It\u2019s not an easy place to play by any stretch of the imagination, but I think we\u2019re ready for it.”<\/p>\n On whether he embraces the idea of his team being the villains\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I think you want to be the enemy going in to everybody\u2019s territory because, generally, if (people) feel that passionately about us and all that, then you have a pretty good football team. That\u2019s what you want. It\u2019s just like the Yankees. The Yankees are the most-loved team in baseball and the most-hated by everybody. Now that would be ideal. We\u2019re short about 26 championships, but that\u2019s going to take a few years to catch up (laughing). That\u2019s what you want. If people love you and feel good about you and all that, they want to schedule you for homecoming because they can beat you every time. We want to be a team that is respected. You might dislike us and all that kind of stuff, but we want you to respect us and that\u2019s what we work hard to do every day. That\u2019s the style of play that we have and that\u2019s something that\u2019s important to us.”<\/p>\n On whether winning is the only way the team will earn respect\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Winning helps. There\u2019s no question (that) winning helps it. I think your style of play (and) the way you play the game (helps)-hard-hitting, tough football. It\u2019s like when we beat Pittsburgh, I don\u2019t think any less of Pittsburgh because we beat them. I appreciate Pittsburgh, because that\u2019s a football team. That was a great thing. I respect Pittsburgh. That\u2019s what I want. I want to be respected that way as a football team. I always want to be the team that nobody wants to play.”<\/p>\n On whether the impending snowstorm altered their travel plans for tomorrow\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “It did alter our plans. We were scheduled to leave later, but now we\u2019re going to meet here. We\u2019ll depart here at 1:30. It was going to be a couple of hours later than that, but we\u2019ll make sure we get in and be ready to go.”<\/p>\n On whether this game feels like it has taken a long time to come around\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “We\u2019re ready. We\u2019re excited for it. We\u2019re ready to go. If they called us up and said, \u201cWe want to play the game today,\u201d then we\u2019d play it.”<\/p>\n On whom the third cornerback will be this weekend…<\/strong><\/p>\n “Drew Coleman will be like a nickel corner. We\u2019re going to play more than that though. We\u2019ll play (Marquice) Cole. There\u2019s Kyle Wilson. There\u2019s Dwight Lowery. There are going to be a bunch of guys that will be in there, matching up with this team.”<\/p>\n On what puts Drew Coleman ahead of the other defensive backs\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I think if you\u2019re looking at a true third guy, he\u2019s basically our nickel corner right now.”<\/p>\n On if Manning will go after Coleman\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I\u2019m not afraid of that. I\u2019m not afraid of that at all. Peyton is going to throw it to whoever he feels has the best match up and if that\u2019s going against Drew Coleman, then so be it. I think we\u2019ll be ready for the challenge.”<\/p>\n On faceing a great quarterback\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “It\u2019s not just a coach on the field. You give the coaching community too much credit. This guy is one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the game. He is one of the smartest guys. It\u2019s not just a coach dialing up plays, he dials his own plays up. Each play has three options. He comes up and takes option one. Whatever it is. Forget those options, I\u2019m going to go to option four. This is who he is. The guy is tremendous. There is no one else like this guy in the league. Nobody studies like him. I know (Tom) Brady thinks he does. I think there\u2019s probably a little more help from (Bill) Belichick with Brady than there is with Peyton Manning. Tom Moore has done a great job with him for forever (as well as Jim) Caldwell and Tony Dungy. It\u2019s Peyton Manning. That\u2019s who it is.”<\/p>\n On the players backing up his remarks\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “All I\u2019m doing is speaking what I believe to be the truth. Are there (people who doubt me?) Absolutely. Are there more (people who doubt me) as each day goes on? Of course. Guys questions this and that. One thing you have to understand about me is that I\u2019ll be the same person today, tomorrow and 20 years from now because I believe in myself. I believe in the team we are coaching. I believe we have the best team and the best organization in football. I don\u2019t think it (takes) guts to say that. If someone doubted me, I\u2019ve never said okay you\u2019re right and left. I\u2019m going to do the opposite. I\u2019m going to prove it to you. I\u2019m going to prove it to whoever doubts me. That\u2019s the way I\u2019ve been all my life and that\u2019s the way this football team is. We know there are doubters. Absolutely. We also believe in each other. We plan on going to the bank.”<\/p>\n On communication in the secondary\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “We\u2019ve had different meetings and we feel good. I think if the Colts beat us, it\u2019s going to be physically, not mentally.”<\/p>\n On Larry Coyer\u2019s style of defense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “It\u2019s a lot different than our style of play. His is predicated on those two great edge pass rushers that they have. It may look like it\u2019s a more vanilla style of defense, but it\u2019s French vanilla. They do a great job. He built their defense. They play defense based on their personnel. They draft to a certain system. It\u2019s hard to argue their success. They\u2019ve been to the playoffs nine straight years. There\u2019s a lot of teams that don\u2019t get it in two years in a row or anything else. There are a lot of good teams that don\u2019t make the playoffs and they\u2019ve made it nine straight years. They\u2019re doing something right on defense.”<\/p>\n On what changed defensively when Coyer became the defensive coordinator\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Not much. I recognize the same defense. There\u2019s Cover Two, there\u2019s Tampa Two, there\u2019s Cover Three. They\u2019ll bring guys down and quarter coverage. It\u2019s a similar system. It\u2019s the same thing with Clyde (Christensen) taking over the offensive coordinator role. It\u2019s still the same system. This is the Indianapolis Colts. 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