OT - Rex Ryan calls Gholston a phony, writes story about brother's baseball glove.
Rex Ryan is set to release a book in the near future. Among other things, Ryan discusses how he told Mangini (who at the time was the Jets coach while Ryan was with the Ravens) not to draft Gholston. He said about Gholston "Truth be told, I didn't like the kid coming out of college.... He's a good athlete and a smart guy, but I thought he was a phony."
Those are pretty damning words I would say. Gholston was cut last year and I haven't even cared to find out what he's been doing since. Interesting stuff.
http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/news/story?id=6432554
This Michigan fan does not applaud Rex Ryan.
Always seemed like a good dude, imo. One of the few OSU guys I don't affirmatively dislike.
April 26th, 2011 at 10:01 PM ^
Two guys I hate:
Rex Ryan and Vernon Gholston.
April 26th, 2011 at 11:15 PM ^
April 26th, 2011 at 10:04 PM ^
A phony as a player? As a person?
April 26th, 2011 at 10:04 PM ^
A big fat phoney....enter Family Guy
April 26th, 2011 at 10:06 PM ^
He rips numerous players in this book (of course none of them are on his team). And he rips the Golden Boy Tom Brady for having a good coach! Fuck Rex Ryan
April 26th, 2011 at 10:09 PM ^
out there. Mostly it gets used by heavyset, not-so-intelligent guys when they feel threatened by intelligent or smooth guys. I mean, how deep does such an accusation go? Not too.
April 26th, 2011 at 10:14 PM ^
I would have a guess at what someone meant if they called a politician a phony. But a football player? I assume that Gholston at least tried to succeed with the Jets.
you mean catcher in the rye isn't your favorite book??
April 26th, 2011 at 10:12 PM ^
April 26th, 2011 at 10:15 PM ^
Rex Ryan is a poor man's Bill Parcells. That is all.
April 26th, 2011 at 10:33 PM ^
I'm pretty sure he ate a poor man's Bill Parcells once......
April 26th, 2011 at 10:55 PM ^
MGoDroid is causing me to double post a fair amount of time. Just an FYI. Not complaining as I am eternally grateful for its production, just thought I'd pass that along.
April 26th, 2011 at 10:48 PM ^
As a Giants fan who has seen two super bowl victories in the last twenty years, calling the Jets - they of zero Super Bowl appearances in the past 40 years - Big Brother is laughable.
April 26th, 2011 at 10:53 PM ^
i hate that loud mouth fatty. Hey Rex why no change things up and shut your loud mouth up and get to a superbowl?
As a Patriots fan who has seen three Super Bowl victories in the past 10 years, I do not understand where Rex Ryan's arrogance comes from. I say arrogance because his attitude goes beyond confidence. It's the Jets god damn it. The Jets. They either are decent or picking first in the draft. They're the Jets god damn it.
As a Lions fan who has seen several really good preseason records, I do not understand these terms "Superbowl" and "arrogance" and "confidence."
Hey didn't they have something called a Superbowl in Detroit a while back? I can't be 100% sure though, I seem to have lost the ability to remember NFL football before 2009...
That was the Sunday when like 100,000 people wearing black and yellow bought beer from us, and like 1,000 people wearing teal were wandering around asking where they can get a "Moe-Cat Chinola Tay" right?
Man that day was weird. Only normal thing I saw all afternoon was pathetic officiating at a Detroit sporting event.
April 26th, 2011 at 11:15 PM ^
You can't park your van on the diving board.
Oh, wait, you're just a fat kid.
Hey,TOM... it's just a fat kid.
April 26th, 2011 at 11:24 PM ^
I just watched that episode last night.
Hilarious.
April 26th, 2011 at 11:50 PM ^
I NEED AN ADULT...
April 26th, 2011 at 11:29 PM ^
Rex Ryan=Holden Claufield?
I can totally see it.
Rex Ryan blah blah Gholston, blah catcher in the yadda... Lets cut to the scene with Mrs Ryans feet... Oh Yeah... lol
April 26th, 2011 at 11:57 PM ^
Gholston may be a "phoney"...who knows....his physique certainly is questionable....
but....
As "phoney" as Gholston's body and game may (or may not) be....
at least he does not pimp his wife out on the internet for foot -fetish-swinger- sex like Coach Rex Ryan does.
and Rex Ryan is a DICK for calling out any player 1 year removed from his roster who didnt do anything morally wrong... last year in training camp on HBO Ryan was talking a totally different story....
April 27th, 2011 at 12:51 AM ^
"Vernon wouldn't let Rex see his feet" joke...
April 27th, 2011 at 11:19 AM ^
We need a "uses ellipses as terminal punctuation" moderation tag.
April 27th, 2011 at 12:07 PM ^
Bashing a former player won't inspire confidence in his current players, who now have plenty of reason to doubt Ryan's committment to them.
This coming from a guy who lost weight via a gastric bypass...isn't that phony?
Sounds like Rex and Vernon got off on the wrong foot.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:23 AM ^
Gholston looked like God in one game against Michigan, and parlayed that into a lot of attention and an inappropriately high draft rating. Besides, of all the players who played for Tressel, how many have turned into solid NFL players and citizens?
All of the guys from TSIO for whom I have a shred of respect played for Woody, Earle Bruce, or John Cooper. It is common knowledge that Earle Bruce used to go to the racetrack with Art Schlichter, but at least Bruce put out some solid people when it was all said and done. Tressel just teaches players how to be arrogant and entitled.
When you are an ex-football player without enough talent for the NFL, who didn't bother to go to class often, being arrogant and entitled is no substitute for having gone to classes and taken your own exams.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:37 AM ^
in the instance that i actually care about, he destroyed
April 27th, 2011 at 12:24 PM ^
but Nick Mangold is a pretty solid nfl player.
April 27th, 2011 at 11:08 AM ^
I actually talked to one of the independent scout about Gholston. He said that he gave him a 4th round grade and though that the Jets really reached for Gholston. His biggest problem with Gholston is he has stiff hips which doesn't allow him to bend in pass rush and get washed out easily. It shows on the NFL field in which he failed to record a sack.
Didn't Gholsten get the only sack given up by Jake Long in his last year?
I was glad to see VG go to the NFL.