New York Jets' Rex Ryan: 'We're not dead'

After a fifth straight loss, New York Jets’ head coach Rex Ryan told reporters “We’re not dead yet”

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Since taking down the Oakland Raiders 19-14 in week one, it has been all down hill for the New York Jets. They were defeated by Green Bay Packers 31-24, the Chicago Bears 27-19, Detroit Lions 24-17, San Diego Chargers 31-0 and Denver Broncos 31-17.

Although they were more competitive in this week’s loss to the Broncos, they are obviously in a lot of trouble and it won’t get any easier. They’ll hit the road to take on the first-place New England Patriots Thursday night. However, Jets’ head coach Rex Ryan doesn’t believe the Jets are “not dead.”

“The message is pretty simple,” Ryan said via Darryl Slater of NJ.com. “Hey, we might be counted out. We’re not dead. We’re going to fight our tails off. It’s a resilient bunch. As I told our team, a team that doesn’t quit is hard to beat. If you’re fighting a guy that never quits, he’s hard to beat. Our guys, we ain’t quitting. As we say, we’ve just begun to fight.”

Rex Ryan and his team are just trying to move on.

“The morale, any time you have the record we have, it’s not going to be the happiest place to be, obviously,” Ryan said. “It’s the biggest rival you have. It’s the first divisional game that you have. We’ve got to put everything behind us and move forward and we will. This is the biggest rival you have. You don’t have to worry about the motivation. It’s going to be there. Both teams don’t like each other. There’s respect for each other, but I don’t think you really like each other.”

The Patriots and Jets will kick-off from Gillette Stadium at 8:20 PM EST Thursday. The game will be on CBS and the NFL Network.

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New York Jets’ Rex Ryan: ‘We’re not dead’

By Andrew Melnick | Oct 13, 2014

After a fifth straight loss, New York Jets’ head coach Rex Ryan told reporters “We’re not dead yet”

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