Sounds a lot like Rex Ryan would love a return to Florham Park to be the head coach of the Jets again…how do Boomer & Gio feel about that?
“This is typical Rex, I mean, he just puts himself out there and is aggressive about it,” Boomer said. “Then all of a sudden you start seeing some of the old Hard Knocks clips, and you feel like, man, this guy can do it. But one thing I will say about him, he is passionate, there's no question about it, and for some reason players react to him.”
The way Rex delivers his message may be a little off-beat, but you know that a Rex Ryan locker room is a ‘man’s locker room.’
“That’s a man's room with man stuff going on there, you know what I'm saying?” Boomer said. “You cannot be a guy that is going to be triggered by something that may be said in a room that is going to be off-color or maybe a little bit off-putting. But you know what? He is going to challenge you and he's gonna tell you how great you are and how great the team is, and that's one of the reasons why he was so successful the first time he was here.”
“Yeah, and I love his personality. I loved his tenure with the Jets, even not being a Jet fan, and I love what he said yesterday,” Gio replied.
But that said?
“I just don't think it's a good idea to go back to that,” Gio said. “It’s almost like resurrecting the only good time that you have had as a Jet fan in a long time, just trying to go back there to squeeze more out of that happiness, when we are a long way away from that. We’re talking 14 or 15 years from when we were talking about the Jets in the AFC Championship Games with Rex Ryan as the head coach. I don’t know if it’s going to work.”
Whether that’s changes in the game, or whatever, Gio is concerned the current offensive minds will ‘run circles around him,’ but Boomer knows at least the effort will be there.
“The players played for him, and playing defense, there’s only so much you can do to stifle current schemes – but the one thing you can do?” Boomer said. “Guys would run through a wall for him, and that’s something that I actually thought that Rob Saleh had when he first got here, but it’s all about the quarterback situation.”
So what could it look like if this possibility is investigated?
“Whoever the GM is, if they decide to interview Rex or bring Rex in, he's gonna say all the right things; I'm a Jet, I bleed green, I believe in this franchise and can turn it around, the fans love me. Check, check, check,” Boomer said. “Then all of a sudden the season starts, and there’s crappy quarterback play, and this is where the divide starts to happen in the building. You didn't get me a quarterback, how am I supposed to win with this crap – that’s the stuff that goes on behind the scenes, and that’s where the intensity gets to be more of the story than the actual play on the field; it's about the interpersonal relationships that go haywire because they can't win.”