On Tuesday New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan addressed the media following the release of the NFL schedule.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets.<\/p>\n
On having five primetime games\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, I think you\u2019re giving me way too much credit as far as where I\u2019ve gotten them. I think it\u2019s where we\u2019ve gotten ourselves as an entire organization. We hope this trend continues for a long time. If you have five prime-time games, people want to watch you and people anticipate us having an outstanding season. And the fact that we\u2019re the only team to make it to the final four two years in a row obviously speaks to that. This is to be expected, but it\u2019s still exciting also.<\/p>\n On facing his brother in Week One\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Well it\u2019s always great. I have a great time going against my brother; it\u2019s always kind of emotional for me and everything else. But the fact that it\u2019s on 9-11, the 10th anniversary of 9-11, that\u2019s where the focus should be, it shouldn\u2019t be on my brother and I competing against each other even though that\u2019s a family thing and that\u2019s something that we\u2019re awful proud of. But the fact that it\u2019s going to be on the 10th anniversary of 9-11, I feel honored that we\u2019re going to be playing, right there in our stadium. That\u2019s fantastic. It\u2019s obviously going to be an emotional night for everybody, not just in New York\/New Jersey area but in the whole country. I feel honored we\u2019ll be opening up the season playing at home.<\/p>\n On three straight road games Weeks Three through Five\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, you start off going to Oakland then come back and play at Baltimore, and at New England. Quite honestly, that\u2019s a difficult stretch, three road games in a row. But at other end of it, you\u2019re going to have other games at home. That\u2019s a tough stretch but again, they\u2019re looking at it like, \u2018Oh man, we\u2019re going to have to play the Jets.\u2019 It goes both ways. We have no excuses, we\u2019ve never made excuses, and we\u2019ll be ready to play anywhere.<\/p>\n On if he is confident the season will start on time\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m confident we\u2019ll have a season but again, we\u2019re going to be ready to play. Whenever they say, \u2018Hey, alright you guys, we\u2019re going back to work, we\u2019re playing,\u2019 and all that kind of stuff, we\u2019re ready. Whatever schedule it is, we\u2019ll be ready for it. We\u2019re not making any excuses whatsoever.<\/p>\n On how the lockout has affected his offseason\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s kind of business as usual. We\u2019re getting ready for the draft. We\u2019re really dialed in on the draft. (General Manager) Mike Tannenbaum, (Vice President of College Scouting) Joey Clinkscales and all our scouts do an unbelievable job. The other thing that we do is we include our coaches. For instance, we did the secondary today, so (Defensive Back Coach) Dennis Thurman, (Assistant Defensive Back Coach\/Quality Control) Jim O\u2019Neil and (Defensive Coordinator) Mike Pettine were all in there as well and each guy has reports to do. I actually did about 30 reports. Mike had me do some defensive players. For some reason I didn\u2019t do too many reports on offensive players. You get everybody\u2019s opinion, everybody read their report. We feel like we have such a thorough process, we have (prospects) coming in, speaking to the coaches. We\u2019re really prepared for the draft. We feel good about it. We just finished up our initial board where you go through all the positions today. We feel great about our process, we feel great about our board, and we are excited about the draft.<\/p>\n On if he is disappointed that he will not face the Giants in the season opener\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Not really. We knew who we were going to play, we never knew when. We know who we were going to play, we knew we were going to play the Giants at some point, we knew we were going to play Dallas at some point. The fact that it is Dallas on opening night and it\u2019s going to be the Giants on Christmas Eve, that\u2019s fine. I think those are going to be some great games, there\u2019s no question those are going to be some great games. We just play who they tell us to and when they tell us (to). It\u2019s our job to be ready to go and I can promise you this, we\u2019re confident our team is going to be ready to go.<\/p>\n On if there will be a lot of trash-talking with his brother leading into the game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n That could be. It\u2019s going to be a little different. The fact that the game is on opening night and the 10-year anniversary of 9-11 will put a little damper on (the trash-talking). I certainly don\u2019t want to do something that would take away from (honoring the anniversary of 9-11). This game certainly won\u2019t be about my brother and I. I think there probably won\u2019t be as much trash-talking as maybe what\u2019s gone on in the past.<\/p>\n On how tough it is on his brother Rob preparing a new defense with no players\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I hope it\u2019s real tough. (laughter) To be honest, that team is going to be ready to go. He\u2019s going to have them buzzing. He\u2019s a tremendous coach and we know he\u2019ll have his team ready to go. Again, our focus is going to be on us and not on them as much.<\/p>\n On if he has run into any Jets players in the Florham Park area during the lockout\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n No I have not. I don\u2019t get out much. 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