Trash talk is normal in competitive sports there’s just one thing, make sure you can back it up! Â Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan has been very vocal, trashing the Eagles and the Lions then losing horribly to them. Â Rob definitely has skills but he has to make sure his team is up to par before he goes off at the mouth. Â Now he’s starting to see the error of his ways and realizes maybe it wasn’t the best thing to do or did he really? Â Read more after the jump.
Less than a week after his Dallas defense was shredded by the Eagles, Rob Ryan is still answering for his training-camp boasts promising that the Cowboys would handle Philly with ease.
“I gave (the Eagles) a little extra motivation by my comments,” the defensive coordinator told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Friday. “As I told everybody before, nobody ever puts it back in there — an assistant coach shouldn’t be doing that. I let one slip out of there, and it gets away from me. I put too much pressure on our guys, which is not what we want to do.
“That’s why I felt the whole thing was my fault, which it really was. It doesn’t happen very often. It’s not going to be a weekly press conference where I screw something up. It usually happens the other way around.”
But not always.
Ryan also paid for disparaging comments he made about Calvin Johnson before the Lions wideouttorched the Cowboys in Week 4 (sense a theme here?).
Ryan is a skilled coordinator, but one who’s now eating from the same humble pie his twin brother Rex, the Jets coach, has feasted on of late.
Has Rob Ryan zipped it for good? Please.
“I take a lot of pride in my job,” he said. “I’m the best at what I do.”
