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Jets head coach Rex Ryan is trying to send a message.  His team is facing a must-win game this weekend against one of their biggest rivals, and they are going to have to get physical if they want to come out on top.  That starts with getting after Eli Manning.  Manning is having the best season of his career and the Giants passing game has been clicking all season.  The Jets' defense thrives on pressuring the quarterback, and that will be extremely important on Saturday.  That's why Ryan put a picture similar to the ones above on all the Jets players' playbooks this week.

Those pictures were taken during the preseason last year, when Calvin Pace hit Manning and left him with blood gushing from his forehead. Pace said the message this year is simple.

"I guess, do it again, hit him again,” Pace said according to The Newark Star-Ledger. “But they do that every week, depending on who we’re playing. If they can find a good picture they’ll put it on there. So I just happened to get chosen this week.”

Ryan said the cover is perfect to represent what this weekend's game will entail -- a battle between two desperate teams who have been busy trading trash talk all week.

 

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11 Comments:
  • This is why sports bug me at times. It seems like there are so many thugs playing. The story here is that the Jets would rather hurt someone to win than to beat them with talent. To me Rex Ryan is no better than Detroit's Ndamukong Suh.
  • That's what I thought. Like father like son!!! I guess the apple dosen'tfall far from the tree. GO BIG BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Like father like son. The apple dose'nt fall far from the tree in this family. GO BIG BLUE !!!!!!!!!!!
  • That's exactly what I thought, I guess the apple dose'nt fall far from the tree in this family. Like father like son. GO BIG BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Sorry about the triple post. I did'nt think they were getting through. Happy Holidays to all. GO BIG BLUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • I hope this is what happens!!!!!!!!!! GO COWBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Rex Ryan is a 600 pound idiot!!!
  • Why do the Jets continously do this stuff ..... what is there point .... they will never go to a superbowl w/ rexaroo .... never
  • *their ... sorry rex moment ....
  • I agree with the dangrs1
    Too bad when the Jets were trying to trip players by crowding the sidelines that someone didn't flatten that big tub of $$hit, but that fat aa$$ is too much of a coward to get close to the field of play
  • more than happy the jets lost
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