Report: Jets prevented Rex Ryan from talking about father Buddy’s health issues
Why would the New York Jets not want Rex Ryan to discuss his father’s health issues?
Ryan’s father, legendary former NFL coach Buddy Ryan, is battling cancer. Rex went to visit Buddy during the Week 11 bye, but apparently the Jets don’t want him talking to reporters about the 83-year-old’s illness. Here’s what Manish Mehta of the NY Daily News wrote in a recent column.
Last week, the Jets prevented Rex Ryan from sharing details about his bye-week trip to Kentucky to see his 83-year-old father, Buddy, who has battled cancer in recent years. Ryan was happy to discuss the visit, but a media relations official intervened presumably because of the News’ critical stories about Idzik.
Asked who made the decision to prevent a willing Ryan from sharing stories about his father, the media relations official said, “I don’t have to tell you.”
Mehta speculates that the muzzling of Ryan is further proof that the Jets plan to fire him at the end of the season. He also says Idzik is on a “witch hunt” to determine who has made critical remarks about the GM to the media.
If the Jets are preventing Ryan from discussing his father’s health issues so that he is easier to fire, that would be pathetic. We can’t say it would surprise us given the current state of the Jets, but it would be beyond classless.