Rex Ryan says Jets have place for brother Rob Ryan if he doesn't become head coach, leaves Browns

There could be a double dose of the Ryan brothers on the Jets' coaching staff next season.
Rex Ryan tried to hire his twin brother Rob when he got the Jets' job two years ago, but Eric Mangini had hired him as the Browns defensive coordinator before the Jets offered their head coaching job to Rex. When Rex asked the Browns to release his brother, Mangini replied, "Give me a break, he's already here," Rex Ryan said Thursday. "I told him blood was thicker than water. They were not going to lose him."
But now that the Browns have fired Mangini, Rob Ryan could be available. He will be interviewed for the Carolina Panthers head coach opening, and Rex Ryan is optimistic his brother will get a job as a head coach or defensive coordinator. But he's got a safe and comfortable place to land if nothing is attractive.

"Without question, that would be an amazing opportunity for us if we could bring my brother in here," Ryan told the Daily News Thursday. "You want to surround yourself with as many good coaches as you can. We are fortunate here. We've got a lot of good coaches. Would I like to add my brother? Of course."
Ryan called Jets defensive coordinator Mike Pettine "an unbelievable coach," so Rob Ryan would not get that job, Rex said. "Rob has never really been in this system anyway," Rex said

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So what role would he have? "We would try to come up with something," he said. "If that opportunity was out there, I think the first guy that would come to me and want to do that would be (GM Mike) Tannenbaum and even (Jets owner) Woody (Johnson). I don't think we will have that opportunity. He will be at least a coordinator in this league, if not a head coach. I'm not the only one who recognized the guy is a great coach."
Rex and Rob last worked together on their father Buddy's staff with the Arizona Cardinals in 1994 and '95.
Rob Ryan reportedly is still under contract to the Browns, which means if the new head coach wants to keep him, Cleveland could prevent him from taking anything that is not a head coaching job.

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