NFL notes: Rex Ryan says he knew days as Jets were numbered

“I knew that”, Ryan told Andrea Kremer. “Oh, I was done”, he said. Ryan had to work under several general managers and a group of front office staff members who always seemed to make the wrong decisions in free agency and in the draft, which led to things like the Jets having a depth chart at quarterback that consisted of underwhelming draft picks and career backups.

Buffalo Bills head coach Rex Ryan said he knew he was going to be fired from the New York Jets in 2014, and he knew it fairly early on. “One-hundred percent, I knew I was done”. Yep, 100 percent. Yeah, I know Woody [Johnson, the Jets’ owner] wanted to keep me [after last season].

Meet Rex Ryan, coach of the Buffalo Bills, who has no compunction about hiring players and staff with questionable personal histories, including former Jets linebacker IK Enemkpali, claimed on waivers on Wednesday the day after the Jets released him for breaking Geno Smith’s jaw.

“Woody and I talk like brothers”. I know Woody never wanted to fire me. That’s what Woody wanted.

In addition to spending the 2009 season and 2010 training camp with the Bills, Lankster has spent time with the New York Jets in each of the past four seasons.

Asked if there was a scenario in which Johnson could’ve kept him, Ryan said, “Maybe, but I’ll tell you this: He couldn’t do it. There’s no chance he could’ve brought in another GM and kept me again”. A second reprieve would’ve been a disastrous public relations move.

Despite proclamations last year that he had confidence in the Jets, it is clear Ryan was just putting on a show and being a company man.