New York Giants' success sure to hurt Rex Ryan – Part 1
There is no doubt that with every victory scored by the New York Giants, the pain and anxiety for New York Jets’ coach, Rex Ryan keeps increasing. After all that is the same team that Ryan had spurned down as being the weaker side in New York as he was adamant
with his claims and boasts that he kept up with throughout the season.
Ryan’s rhetoric may have received a snub as the Jets ended up being eliminated from the playoffs this season but his ambitions are far from over. Ryan does not seem to have cooled down. His ambitions still persist despite his failure to win the Super Bowl
this year as he had claimed.
Ryan is now focused on making it to the Super Bowl the next year.
So what would the New York Giants remind him of?
They would remind him of the failure they meted out to him in his desire to make way with his bold claims.
So with every Giants victory the anxiety increases for Ryan. With the Giants out there in the Super Bowl event, Ryan would definitely be laminating at the boasts he made earlier. Coupled with the pain of being eliminated from the playoffs and the week 16
defeat to the Giants, is the fact that the same team he had scorned upon is now one of the teams that made it to the Super Bowl.
Picking up the Giants earlier on in the season had been totally unnecessary and uncalled for. There was no better reason which he had to hit out on that team which in the past has indeed proved to be the better side as the record of previous clashes between
the two sides suggest.
Adamant with his claims that the Jets were the better side, Ryan had gone on to claim that they would win the next game.
Bashing the Giants, Ryan talked of the Jets being the better side for ten years while maintaining that he had come to the town to be a little brother to no one.
That was something not new. He had kept up that rhetoric in his autobiography which had been released early in 2011.
"I know it's going to p**s off every Giants fan to hear this, but here you go. We are the better team. We are the big brother. (Jets are) going to remain the better team for the next 10 years", Ryan wrote in his autobiography which was released last year.
And that rhetoric increased in intensity as the Jets got ready to face the Giants in their next game in week 16.
Ryan kept hurling the phrase “little brother” at the Giants as he claimed of owning the town. Ryan termed any suggestion that the Giants were the better side as ridiculous.
What exactly Ryan had in mind at that time would remain uncertain for a long time. Was Ryan trying to divert attention from the then recent humiliating 45-19 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles?
Was he trying to rally his players for a win? Or was he trying to divert all the pressure from the team on to him? Or was it just his way of pursuing things?
Ryan had gambled himself on the game agreeing to take the heat if his team fell short of success.
“If we lose, it’s coming right down on me, and I can handle it. I hope I don’t have to.” Ryan said.
To be continued......
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