longer-developing blitzes<\/a> have an impossible time of hitting home in a quicker-passing landscape.<\/p>\nFrom an actual interview standpoint, there was never any mention of the Giants interviewing Rex. Instead, names like former Rex disciple Jim Leonhard, Anthony Weaver, and Daronte Jones emerged more concretely, whereas Dennard Wilson was hired.<\/p>\n
Then again, unlike the Jets, whose in-house media and social media team announced Aaron Glenn\u2019s official interviewees, no such activity took place in Giants land under Harbaugh. Therefore, how \u201cofficial\u201d any of this stuff is remains in serious doubt. <\/p>\n
No tangible evidence<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, of course, it\u2019s possible that John Harbaugh seriously considered the former New York Jets head coach for the job. Yet, nothing the man said on WFAN or to Ian O\u2019Connor suggests, in the very least, that Rex Ryan was even close to taking the job.<\/p>\n
Harbaugh simply \u201ctalked to Rex about that job at length.\u201d It makes no mention of Rex as a serious consideration for the position. This hardly gives pro football headlines a green light to suggest that Rex nearly became Harbaugh\u2019s defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n
Those who know, simply know. <\/p>\n
A man like John Harbaugh, a tremendously buttoned-up coach who takes personal relationships seriously, would never leave one of his former underbosses out in the cold. When a coach can help a buddy by publicly mentioning his name, while also having a private conversation that cannot hurt in any way, it\u2019s par for the course.<\/p>\n
This is especially true when asked specifically about a man on WFAN. <\/p>\n
Until tangible evidence to the contrary surfaces, no, Rex Ryan did not almost become the Giants\u2019 defensive coordinator. There\u2019s absolutely nothing to suggest that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ah, yes, the NFL media machine is at it once again. To nobody\u2019s surprise, the headlines are turning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[117,7,3228,226,90259,1917,56,255,2321,2097,6,4403,3231,3233,26061,3234],"class_list":{"0":"post-754536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-baltimore-ravens","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-free-content","11":"tag-jets","12":"tag-jim-leonhard","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-giants","15":"tag-new-york-jets","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkjets","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-ny-jets-coaches","20":"tag-ny-jets-news","21":"tag-ny-jets-rumors-transactions","22":"tag-rex-ryan","23":"tag-standard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116076499220587871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}