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With the Rams and potentially other teams wanting to interview Vance Joseph, how would you all feel about Rex Ryan as DC?

I have mixed feeling about it. Yes, Baltimore's defense was very good under Ryan, but it was very good after he left too. He had a couple good years (Defense wise) with the Jets, but Buffalo's D has really underachieved. It makes me wonder if the defensive success in Baltimore was really his coaching, or the players on that team.

I'm also not sure that he would mesh well with Gase. What do you guys think?
 
Wait, what? The guy who's current team has one of the worst defenses in the league?!! THAT guy as DC?
 
Rex has a great defensive mind but he is very stubborn. He wants to run his schemes because of his family "legacy". If you happen to have elite corners and high IQ front 7 that are unselfish it could work.

Sounds like Marcel Dareus is excited to get out of Rex's scheme.
 
montequi said:
Wait, what? The guy who's current team has one of the worst defenses in the league?!! THAT guy as DC?
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Some people aren't cut out to be a HC. That doesn't mean they aren't successful as coordinators.
 
I hate the guy. Yes, I do feel he could be a good DC, but I don't want him. Too strong of a personality. Pass.
 
baalworship said:
Rex has a great defensive mind but he is very stubborn. He wants to run his schemes because of his family "legacy". If you happen to have elite corners and high IQ front 7 that are unselfish it could work.

Sounds like Marcel Dareus is excited to get out of Rex's scheme.
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Where did you hear the last part ..I'd like to read it
 
"It was just too much detail for a lot of guys, and I feel like for a lot of guys it was too much going on for them to check here and check there, if this happens and that happens. Then nine times out of ten, a team will throw something out there that we weren't prepared for, and then the adjustment to it, we had to get use to and try to make it happen and make plays."

Dareus won't be the first or last player associated with Ryan's scheme to accuse him of being complicated. Ryan had his most success in 2009 and 2010 -- a time where he loaded up the defense with heady veterans who were already accustomed to the terminology. Linebacker Bart Scott and safety Jim Leonhard were brought in to pilot the scheme and translate its complexities. Veterans like former Raven Trevor Pryce and all-time great Jason Taylor followed suit. His best defensive players had a graduate degree in Rex-ology, or, in the case of someone like Darrelle Revis, they were asked to do something specific (like match up on the other team's best receiver and follow him everywhere).

Somewhere along the line, those complexities seemed to build and tangle. Some of the Bills' best pass rushers complained about dropping back into coverage in 2015 and this year, Dareus said an injury to safety Aaron Williams changed the communication dynamic.

"I feel like things changed when Aaron (Williams) got hurt ... communication just started to (fall) off, not just on the back end, but across the whole board for the defense," Dareus said. "Then, people started getting hurt, injuries started occurring. We started to bring people in and communication was just thrown off."

Ryan's head coaching tenure will be feverishly dissected in the coming years. It's hard to believe that an astoundingly good defense in 2009 and 2010 (the Jets made it to the AFC title game both years) dissolved into this unless you're someone like Dareus, who seemed to see it coming.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000764854/article/dareus-rex-ryans-defense-was-too-complicated
 
I don't think I could stand him and his ego!
Fisher would be a great D.C. Lol
 
Njphinsfan said:
I hate the guy. Yes, I do feel he could be a good DC, but I don't want him. Too strong of a personality. Pass.
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His personality isn't to my liking. But if he could replicate the success he had in Baltimore, I could put my personal feelings to the side. :)
 
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