All you masochists out there in Patriot Nation, check out this New York Times Magazine cover story from four months ago:
Rex Ryan: Bringing It Big
TRUE ORIGINALITY IS rare to come by in football coaches. Years may pass with the prevailing belief that no further significant strategic innovations are possible. Then comes a spread offense or a wildcat formation and, swifter than a red-dogging linebacker, every team moves to adjust. The Jets are Ryan’s first head-coaching job, but long before the team hired him last year, he was already known within the professional fraternity as a defensive auteur — a man with “a beautiful football mind.” His scheme of “organized chaos,” which he developed with his staff as a Baltimore Ravens coordinator, is something unique. It’s a way of thinking about the game as much as it is a matrix of X’s and O’s, a basic football counterintuition that says the defense will initiate play and the offense will respond.
In fact, both those things came to pass in Sunday’s unfortunate Patriots-Jets tilt.
(Hey – I may be from New York, but the Jets are certified assholes.)
Regardless, football’s in your court, Bill Belichick.
*** Hey – I may be from New York, but the Jets are certified assholes. ***
Agreed.
As much as this loss hurt, Boston sports fans really need to keep this in perspective. I’m still trying to recover from the 2004 ALCS & World Series miracle. We should be grateful for what we have. I wouldn’t trade this for some silly NFL playoff win over the Jets.
Depends on where the line is drawn.
Is there something further down the scale that is more applicable?
Would agree with direction of the assessment, though.
Ah, the delights of NOT being a sports *fan! Now I can watch “Jeopardy” if I choose to do so on Friday nights at 7:30, rather than some time during the weekend after recording the Saturday morning at about 2:30 run. *(“Fan” is supposed to be short for “fanatic”; for the past week-plus, I’ve heard and read about little else than mental illness and its distribution in the populace. I wonder if the extravagant “sports fanaticism of the past few days doesn’t qualify as at least a psychosis. )