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Former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath believes current Jets head coach Rex Ryan thinks his team is better then they really are.
“It’s rather alarming,” said Namath on the Michael Kay show. “It starts at the top. Coach Rex Ryan, he’s been doing a great job, getting us to two conference championship games, but there’s one thing about the athlete: You keep telling him how good he is, he’s going to start believing it to the point that he may not be preparing quite the way he should. He may be losing some respect for the other team.”
“I think these guys might be believing that they’re better than they are,” Namath said. “Rex has been the only coach that we know, in maybe the history of the game that I’m familiar with, that keeps continually telling his guys how good they are. And they have been pretty good — pretty good — but they haven’t won a championship yet. I think they’ve got to remember that there’s room for improvement.”
Ryan of coarse disagrees with Namath and thinks that his confidence in his teams is one of his greatest strengths.
“The great thing is I’m confident with our football team,” said Ryan, whose comments were released by the Jets PR department. “There’s no question about it. I’ve told you this many times, I’ve never gone into a game I didn’t think I’d win. [I] haven’t won them all, but I certainly think we can and will. I’m not going to change who I am because Joe Namath said something. Namath can come in here, and if he can still throw, we’ll have him as a backup quarterback, but you know what? He doesn’t know our team. He’s on the outside. Even though he’s a Jet, and once you’re a Jet, you’re always a Jet, but he’s on the outside. He’s not in these meetings. I think if he was, he’d be shocked with the preparation.”
Namath claims that the Jets looked unprepared during Sunday’s loss to the Oakland Raiders. Ryan of coarse once again disagrees with Namath’s assessment.
“I welcome him to come out here and watch our guys prepare,” Ryan said. “He’d see a team that, in my opinion, prepares as well as any team I’ve been around. I disagree with him.”
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