It’s been nearly three years since Rex Ryan locked up in a chessmatch with Sean Payton. Both men — the defensive genius and the offensive mastermind — will surely recall that game while devising their game plans this week for Sunday’s battle of unbeatens at the Superdome.

On Oct. 29, 2006, the 4-2 Baltimore Ravens met up with the 5-1 New Orleans Saints down in the Gulf Coast two months ba… More

It’s primetime in the preseason. And Rex Ryan, who said he doesn’t remember the score of any preseason game he’s been in, including his first as the Jets’ head coach against St. Louis a mere 10 days earlier, said this one “is going to feel special.”

Not because Ryan, along with Bart Scott, Jim Leonhard and Marques Douglas, is returning to his home by the harbor of the previous 10 year… More

The man in the national spotlight and under the green and white microscope in Crabtown tonight will be Mark Sanchez, and rightly so. The kid quarterback from Southern Cal with the perfect teeth, the big hands and the precocious presence gets his first NFL start of any kind against the big bad Ravens defense and their rabid purple-clad fans. How Sanchez does, good, bad or indifferent, will be the h… More

We may be back at Florham Park but we’re not going to pack up the Rex Box just yet. Rex was asked if there were any particular things he wants to see from rookie Mark Sanchez for his first pro start, against the Ravens on Monday night. As usual the coach took that ball and ran with it.

“Nothing specific. Just go out and play quarterback,” Rex said, adding quickly, “and by the way, that other te… More

Rex Ryan heard a little more today about the Baltimore Ravens remarks he made Monday, about being passed over for the Ravens head coaching job last year and about his feelings on the Ravens handing out uniform No. 99, Michael McCrary’s old number, to rookie LB Paul Kruger.

And one or two columnists probed the Jets head coach on if he’ll be moderating his free-wheeling remarks once the buzzsaw o… More