Rex Ryan Guarantees Super Bowl
New York Jets coach Rex Ryan has made his Super Bowl guarantee official. When he was asked to sign a sticker with the Jets logo on the back of an ESPN tour bus, he wrote on it “soon to be champs.”
Ryan said to the media shortly after that he stands by his bold prediction: “I've got confidence to put it up there," Ryan said. "I don't have to just put, 'Go, so-and-so.' Yeah, whatever. To me, I believe we'll do it, so why wouldn't we say it? Why wouldn't we go for it?"
Ryan was the first to not just sign his name on the tour bus. Wes Welker of the New England Patriots wrote his own slogan on the bus, but it was more of a subdued message. It read: “One game at a time.”
The Jets brash, outspoken coach refused to back down from his claim: "I'm not apologizing," Ryan said. "I just know what's going to happen. My crystal ball, I'm seeing a Super Bowl trophy in there. Now, I could be wrong, but that's what I see. But every time I go to work, that's what I look at."
The Jets are being predicted by some to accomplish just that and with the off-season acquisitions they made, they are expected to show how good of a team they are. Ryan has enraged many fans around the league and has even concerned Jets fans as no one wants the team to look too far ahead. Ryan scoffs at those ideas, choosing to be very open with his goals.
“I don't care if people don't like it or whatever: 'Oh, just shut up and win something,'" he said. "I've won a lot more than that person writing it, I can promise you. And, I've been there. My family's been to a bunch of these things and I know how to get there. The first step is, if you don't believe it yourself, your team darned sure won't.”
While the Jets are talking a big game, they will have to back up their bold claims when the season starts. We’ll soon find out whether Ryan will eat his words or if his bold claim will surpass Joe Namath’s guarantee of Super Bowl III when the quarterback guaranteed a Jets victory before their championship game over the heavily favoured Colts.
"I'm not embarrassed to say that I believe that will happen," Ryan said. "The great thing is we get to prove it soon. That's the beauty of it."
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