The Buffalo Bills fired coach Rex Ryan today. Why they would fire him with one week left in the season is questionable.
What good does that do? Going to give his replacement a one-week trial?
But these are the Buffalo Bills. Who cares?
Perennial losers.
Let’s get it over to Green Bay where it belongs!
Like the Bills are perennial losers, the Green Bay Packers seemingly have a perennially crappy defense. The guy in charge of that defense is Dom Capers.
Save for 2010, when they were stocked with playmakers, and parts of 2015, the Packers’ defense has been the weak point of the team (save for Shawn Slocum’s awful special teams units) with Capers at the helm. A lot of people don’t think Capers does his job very well.
A lot of people like to dream of wild scenarios.
Scenarios like Rex Ryan replacing Capers as the Packers’ defensive coordinator.
First of all, let’s just say this. Ryan has built his career on being a great defensive mind. He was the Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator from 2005 to 2008. He was the New York Jets head coach from 2009 to 2014, where the Jets seemingly always had a great defense (and no offense).
It seems like everyone is now wise to the fact that Rex Ryan isn’t a great head coach, despite two AFC Championship game appearances with the Jets. A lot of guys who fail as head coaches go back to find success as a coordinators. Although the success part is debatable, Capers was himself a head coach at one time. Wade Phillips is another example. Not so good as a head coach, pretty solid as Denver’s defensive coordinator.
So Rex Ryan as the Packers’ defensive coordinator?
Let the chatter begin…
Rex Ryan as #Packers defensive coordinator in 2017??— Arrick Upton (@ArrickUptonGB) December 27, 2016
lmao RT @KingFavre: Get Rex Ryan for defensive coordinator @Packers
— WhoDatTrap (@TrapGawdd) December 27, 2016
Packers sign Rex Ryan yet?
— Brian Fonfara (@PTTF_Brian) December 27, 2016
https://twitter.com/ConnorAyres4/status/813794025836806144
Here’s the thing.
This is NEVER going to happen.
The reason is simple. Is Rex Ryan theoretically a better defensive coordinator than Dom Capers?
Sure.
He’s also outspoken. He likes the spotlight. He’s the exact opposite type of person the Green Bay Packers employ.
They like vanilla. They like company men. They like guys who fit into the program.
Besides that, Mike McCarthy has a large ego. Rex Ryan might have a bigger one, although it’s close.
Those two egos would have a hard time co-existing in the same place.
Rex Ryan coaching the Green Bay Packers defense is a nice thought.
It’s also essentially impossible.