CORTLAND, N.Y. — Rex Ryan’s Super Bowl guarantee is now in writing.
The Jets coach was asked to sign his team’s logo sticker on the back of ESPN’s tour bus at training camp Thursday. Instead of just signing his name, Ryan wrote: “Soon to be Champs.”
“I’ve got confidence to put it up there,” Ryan said Friday. “I don’t have to just put, ‘Go, so-and-so.’ Yeah, whatever. To me, I believe we’ll do it, so why wouldn’t we say it?”
Ryan has said many times the Jets are a Super Bowl- caliber team, and has irritated some fans, opposing players and media with his bold, sometimes-outrageous comments.
“I’m not apologizing,” Ryan said. “I just know what’s going to happen. My crystal ball, I’m seeing a Super Bowl trophy in there. Now, I could be wrong, but that’s what I see. But every time I go to work, that’s what I look at.”
Even the most famous of Jets prognosticators said talk of this year’s team going all the way is “justified” because of the overall talent.
Joe Namath, who led the franchise to its only title in 1969, said year’s team is “the most legitimate contender we’ve had.”
