The Jets will not play the Ravens during the approved division this year, so Monday night’s preseason bold may be the alone adventitious for their new coach, Rex Ryan, to go up adjoin the aegis he acclimated to drillmaster in Baltimore.
“You’re like, ‘Wow, this is a preseason game,’ but it’s traveling to feel special, I apperceive it is,” Ryan said. “It’s not just traveling to feel appropriate to me. It’s traveling to feel appropriate for all our guys.”
Especially for linebacker Bart Scott and assurance Jim Leonhard, who larboard the Ravens as chargeless agents to accompany Ryan in New York.
“This will be my aboriginal time on the opposing sideline” in Baltimore,” Scott said. “It was my aboriginal home. I played seven years and had seven abundant years.
“It will be agitative to go aback there and absolutely appearance myself well. I will see some accustomed faces, but if the alarm strikes, I accept no friends.”
Baltimore’s aegis still has Ryan’s fingerprints all over it. Greg Mattison took over for Ryan as the arresting coordinator, but the bluster — and the mainstays Ray Lewis, Ed Reed and Haloti Ngata — are unchanged.
Mattison, the linebackers drillmaster endure year beneath Ryan, has not messed with a acceptable thing. He may add a few wrinkles, but Baltimore’s 23-0 win over the Washington Redskins in its preseason opener showed the aegis has not absent its edge.
“I’m abiding they’re out there to prove it was added or beneath them, not Rex’s system,” Scott said. “But they’re active the aforementioned system.”
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