He walked slowly to midfield and met Bill Belichick for a quick bro hug, then Darrelle Revis wished him good luck, and it wasn't long before he was trudging off the field toward the tunnel and toward yet another losing locker room, and so this time he was leaving MetLife Stadium as Ex Ryan, failing in his last gasp as Dead Coach Walking.
On his green-and-white Jets tombstone, it will read: Buddy's boy could sure coach defense, and he sure scared Belichick and Tom Brady over the years, but just wasn't enough of a head coach with enough of a quarterback to overcome the Evil Empire.
He fired one of the last bullets left from the bravado gun he has carried for six years here in Brady's direction after Patriots 17, Jets 16, when he said: "We're the team that always gives him his biggest challenge, whether he admits it or not," but it means nothing when you are 3-12 and out of the playoffs four years running.
Ryan has learned the hard way that football is a game of Grinches, and your team either knows how to win or it doesn't, and Belichick's team knows how to win, and his team doesn't.
Ryan's defensive genius was on display the way his disguised coverages confused Brady enough to sack him four times in the first half, but if you are not Belichick on the sidelines on gameday — and Ryan proved once again he is absolutely not — good luck trying to keep your dream job with Geno Smith showing Pro Bowl flashes, but rarely in the clutch.
Woody Johnson has never hired a coach whose expertise is offense, who can bring the Jets into this quarterback-driven modern NFL by developing a franchise quarterback, and it is way past time.
When and if — or if and when — the owner cleans house, he better find himself a strong football general manager and this time allow him to hire whomever he pleases, but the right general manager will make sure he interviews Adam Gase as long as Jim Harbaugh wants no part of the madness here.
Gase is the young Broncos' offensive coordinator whose candidacy was supported a year ago by Peyton Manning, and is ready for a head coaching gig.
Johnson's first head coach was Al Groh, handpicked by Bill Parcells, followed by Herm Edwards, followed by Eric Mangini, followed by Ryan.
Groh and a Vinny Testaverde who was on the back nine … Edwards and Chad Pennington … Mangini and Pennington and a Brett Favre on the 18th hole … Ryan and Mark Sanchez … Ryan and Smith.
The want ad must read: Offensive guru head coach, and quarterback who can get his team in the end zone.
It was an underthrown interception under duress by Smith, intended for Jace Amaro, that turned the game, Brady engineering a 38-yard touchdown drive that gave the Patriots a 17-13 lead early in the fourth quarter.
Smith made a more egregious error, the kind a rookie might make — immediately following a Marcus Williams interception of Brady at the Patriots' 30 — when he was sacked for a 10-yard loss on third-and-4 by Dont'a Hightower.
"In those situations, my job is to throw the ball away, prevent the sack, but I was bottled up in the pocket, just tried to limit the loss," Smith said.
Once upon a time, Ex Ryan would turn into an ostrich when asked about Mark Sanchez's pre-butt-fumble foibles. Sanchez was his handpicked quarterback. Smith is John Idzik's. No need anymore for Ex Ryan to coddle him.
"Pretty dang critical, and that's something that obviously you gotta learn from. … You can't take a sack there, I don't care who's in your face," Ryan said. "Get rid of the football."
Then, because these are the Jets, Ryan wound up icing his own field goal kicker by burning a timeout after some beautiful sideline histrionics alongside Marty Mornhinweg.
"I really butchered that whole thing," Ryan said. "That's on me."
By failing to limit the loss, Nick Folk had a 52-yard field goal tipped by Vince Wilfork, and the scoreboard never got to read Jets 19, Patriots 17 with 5:16 remaining.
Three times at the end Brady took a knee, a figurative knee to Ex Ryan's solar plexus. He was asked if there were something he would do differently if he could look back on the season.
"Yeah," Ryan said. "Everything."
As for the Patriots sweeping the Jets by a grand total of three points, Ryan said: "It starts with coaching."
And often ends with coaching and quarterbacking.
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