SpikedLemonade
12-27-2016, 06:22 PM
Rex Ryan's bluster has blown out of Buffalo ... and the NFL?
The lasting image of Rex Ryan's two years in Buffalo should not be the shot of him bonding over beers with Jim Kelly (https://www.instagram.com/p/x0M2ByLI_K/) or strolling through the NFL Scouting Combine in a Thurman Thomas jersey (https://twitter.com/richeisen/status/568764281661071360). Those were bouquets thrown to the past and to a fan base desperate to recreate it. But it was the present that Ryan could not manage, and when he stood -- ashen and bereft -- on Monday, taking the blame for having just 10 men on the field (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000764204/article/rex-ryan-buffalo-bills-10men-fail-cost-us-the-game) for a back-breaking overtime run by the Dolphins' Jay Ajayi (http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-cant-miss-plays/0ap3000000762767/Can-t-Miss-Play-Ajayi-sets-up-game-winner-with-57-yard-run) last Sunday, it served as a reminder that the reality of Ryan never quite matched up to the razzle-dazzle.....
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000764863/article/rex-ryans-bluster-has-blown-out-of-buffalo-and-the-nfl
The lasting image of Rex Ryan's two years in Buffalo should not be the shot of him bonding over beers with Jim Kelly (https://www.instagram.com/p/x0M2ByLI_K/) or strolling through the NFL Scouting Combine in a Thurman Thomas jersey (https://twitter.com/richeisen/status/568764281661071360). Those were bouquets thrown to the past and to a fan base desperate to recreate it. But it was the present that Ryan could not manage, and when he stood -- ashen and bereft -- on Monday, taking the blame for having just 10 men on the field (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000764204/article/rex-ryan-buffalo-bills-10men-fail-cost-us-the-game) for a back-breaking overtime run by the Dolphins' Jay Ajayi (http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-cant-miss-plays/0ap3000000762767/Can-t-Miss-Play-Ajayi-sets-up-game-winner-with-57-yard-run) last Sunday, it served as a reminder that the reality of Ryan never quite matched up to the razzle-dazzle.....
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000764863/article/rex-ryans-bluster-has-blown-out-of-buffalo-and-the-nfl