After taking a few months to reflect on his tenure in New York, and perhaps more specifically, how the Jets have fallen short in each of his three years, head coach Rex Ryan sounds as if he'll measure his words carefully going forward. Theoretically, anyway. During an appearance on ESPN New York with Michael Kay, Ryan was asked about the Super Bowl guarantees he had made in previous seasons. “I don't know what I accomplished out of it," Ryan said via SportsRadioInterviews.com. "I think if it gave an opponent fuel to the fire then obviously that was a mistake. If it put undue pressure on our team then that was a mistake. Certainly I didn't wanna do it, I wanted to put -- coming off back-to-back championship games all that's left is the Super Bowl. And I thought by guaranteeing that, it would put the arrows on me. Now granted it did, but it also put arrows on our players and I didn't want that. If it was gonna come down, it would come down on me only. That was what I thought would happen, and that didn't happen. It was shot on some of our players and obviously shot at me as well, where it should have been. But it wasn't directed at me, and I think that was my mistake by saying what I said.†Source: CBS Sports
you weren't pumping your team up or showing your confidence in them.. you were just putting unnecessary pressure.
Saying you have the best team and having a bunch of big name slouches are two completely different things Rex.
