Paging @Smiling Joe Hesketh :
Rex Ryan is joining Sunday NFL Countdown to "help break down Super Bowl LI". Why, Rex, what happened to your passion for coaching?
I assume the conversation about his presence on TV went as follows:
ESPN: "Hi Rex, your agent says you're open to coming on TV next week for the super bowl. How do you feel about it?"
Rex: "So wait, you're going to let me go in front of people and talk about Bill Belichick?"
ESPN: "...uh, yeah, among other things."
Rex: "How much do you need me to pay you to get to do that?"
Rex Ryan is joining Sunday NFL Countdown to "help break down Super Bowl LI". Why, Rex, what happened to your passion for coaching?
Oh, ok, so you won't get your feelings hurt. Any other reasons?"The one thing about [being on TV] is that you don't lose," Ryan told the newspaper in his first interview since being fired Dec. 27 by the Bills. "You'll remember every damn loss. But the wins? You don't necessarily remember. So, it takes a lot out of you. I'm tired of getting f---ed. Unless it's a real situation [as a coach], there's no sense of getting into it again."
Fair enough, I'd be cool with someone paying me $15M to not work too. You sure you're not bitter?Ryan has three years remaining on the five-year, $27.5 million contract that he was given by the Bills in 2015.
"I'm really not that bitter [about being fired] and maybe that $15 million [remaining on the deal] is one of the reasons," Ryan told the Daily News.
...he then stomped off noisily and was later heard crying in the corner, we may presume."I'm not bitter, man. ... Yeah, I'm hurt. I was hurt by it. There's no question. But bitter ain't how I feel. I'm like, 'Shoot, if they never wanted me here, then fine. I ain't here. I'm not your coach anymore. Fine and dandy.'"
I assume the conversation about his presence on TV went as follows:
ESPN: "Hi Rex, your agent says you're open to coming on TV next week for the super bowl. How do you feel about it?"
Rex: "So wait, you're going to let me go in front of people and talk about Bill Belichick?"
ESPN: "...uh, yeah, among other things."
Rex: "How much do you need me to pay you to get to do that?"