Report: Rex Ryan Didn’t Want Favre

BasX · Mar 29, 2009

The moment free agency opened last month, Jets coach Rex Ryan was knocking on Bart Scott’s door.

Thus, Ryan had an obvious interest in Scott.

In contrast, Gary Myers of the New York Daily News reports that Ryan didn’t even call former Jets quarterback Brett Favre.

Myers points out that Ryan was hired on January 19, and that Favre retired on February 11. In the interim, Ryan didn’t reach out to Favre once in an effort to persuade him to play.

“If Ryan wanted Favre, he would have called him or shown up on his doorstep in Hattiesburg,” Myers writes.

And he’s right. The Jets knew that they couldn’t afford Favre’s $13 million salary in 2009, but they didn’t want to cut him. So by not applying lips to Lord Favre’s buttocks, Ryan sent a powerful message.

In the end, Favre blinked, retiring before the Jets had to dump his cap number.

That said, if Favre is willing to take the P.R. hit arising from his second straight unretirement, all he needs to do is send the Comissioner a letter asking to be removed from the reserve-retired list, and the Jets would have no choice but to cut him. Unlike the cap-rich Packers a year ago, the Jets wouldn’t be able to absorb Favre’s salary.
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