Jets head coach Rex Ryan rarely holds back his emotions, win or lose.
Ryan’s Jets didn’t just lose to the Chargers this week - they were demoralized in every aspect of the game, from an offense that couldn’t get out of its own way to a defense that couldn’t stop a thing on third down.
It was a mess, which Ryan frankly acknowledged: “It's a complete ass-whipping and it was me that got his ass kicked. It's on me."
Candor is a plus but frankly, Ryan can’t afford many more of the beatdowns of the nature the Jets suffered in the fifth game of their season.
No team is immune to a day they don’t want to remember but for the Jets, it’s becoming a recurring script and Ryan’s seat is only getting hotter and hotter.
There was last year’s 49-9 stomping in Cincinnati, which Ryan followed up by saying: “We got our butts kicked and there’s no two ways about it. All phases of the game.”
Go back two years to a 2012 game at home when the San Francisco 49ers obliterated the Jets and Ryan said: “We got our ass kicked” and that the team needed to do some “soul searching.”
Ryan called the infamous 45-3 Monday night loss in New England in 2010, the “biggest butt whipping I’ve taken as a coach, in my career.” Ryan used the word “butt” six times in that postgame news conference, repeatedly stressing that Bill Belichick and the Patriots kicked the derrieres of Ryan and the Jets.
Some of these Ryan-led teams have gone on to make the playoffs despite such whoopings. But this one is 1-4 and looking in no shape to get hot.
With a new general manager, Ryan’s ass is on the line and, if the ship isn’t righted quickly this time, the next place it will be kicked is to the curb.
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