Former Jets head coach Rex Ryan says team might be 'undefeated' with him at the helm

The New York Jets had Super Bowl hopes with the instrumentality of Aaron Rodgers, a multitude of weapons, and what was expected to beryllium an elite defense.

But earlier Thanksgiving, they are 3-8 with some their caput manager and general manager present retired of the building.

The 2024 Jets play could precise good beryllium the astir disappointing successful the past of sports, arsenic Rodgers looks similar a 40-year-old disconnected a large wounded and the defence has taken galore leaps backward.

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Rex Ryan poses for a photograph connected the reddish carpet astatine the ESPN the Party lawsuit successful the Houston arts district.  (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

But Rex Ryan feels helium would person this year's squad wherever they were expected to be.

Ryan and Robert Saleh had their beef a fewer years agone but squashed it alternatively quickly. But Ryan does not consciousness assured successful interim caput manager Jeff Ulbrich.

"The coaching is an implicit disaster. I'm not sugarcoating it — it's been bad, it stinks, and there's nary mode astir it," Ryan told ESPN New York's "DiPietro and Rothenberg" connected Monday. "This guy, your antiaircraft coordinator and caput manager — bully luck with that for a feline that's ne'er done it."

Well, Ryan, who coached the Jets from 2009 to 2014 and who has been precise vocal astir his wanting to instrumentality to the sidelines astatine MetLife Stadium, was asked wherever the Jets would beryllium if helium were coaching them.

New York Jets caput manager Rex Ryan watches signifier earlier the crippled with the Minnesota Vikings astatine TCF Bank Stadium. The Vikings triumph 30-24.  (Bruce Kluckhohn-USA TODAY Sports)

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"Probably undefeated," helium responded. "That's conscionable me."

Ryan made the AFC title successful his archetypal 2 seasons with Gang Green, but failed to decorativeness supra .500 successful his last four. He has not been a caput manager since 2016 with the Buffalo Bills, and helium joined ESPN soon thereafter.

New York Jets caput manager Rex Ryan looks connected anterior to the crippled against the Buffalo Bills astatine MetLife Stadium.  (Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports)

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Ryan, though, says helium has had opportunities to instrumentality to coaching — and possibly the Jets volition springiness him a telephone erstwhile this play is over.

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