Rex Ryan may have only been the Jets coach for a few months, but he is wasting no time putting an imprint on his new team.

He brought along linebacker Bart Scott, whose acerbic comments can be heard half a football field away. Practice is louder and bolder, and in the locker room players – thankfully for scribes like us – aren’t nearly as guarded with their words.

Neither is Ryan.

Last week he said he wouldn’t be kissing New England coach Bill Belichick’s Super Bowl rings. Today he responded to linebacker Channing Crowder’s reaction that Ryan was “going absolutely nuts.”

“I don’t know this Channing Crowder,” Ryan said. “All I know is that he’s all tatted up so I guess I ought to be nervous about him. He’s right about one thing. I’m a first-time head coach, but I’ve been around the game all my life. I’m no different than I’ve ever been, it’s just that more people are listening.”

0609ryancrowder

If you want to know where Ryan gets his candor, look no farther than his father, former Jets coach Buddy Ryan. The football patriarch was on site as his son led the first mandatory minicamp of his head coaching career followed his son to the podium to talk about what he saw. Buddy Ryan, now 75, was particularly impressed with the Jets offensive and defensive lines and said you nearly “guarantee yourself a Super Bowl if they stay healthy.”

0609buddy1

Getting back to the Jets coach, Ryan said he was just leading in the style that suited him, and had a lot of confidence in his team. He said if that if his was of expressing himself bothered anyone like Crowder, who sarcasticly told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that Ryan was the OTA Super Bowl winner, that was too bad.

“I think he’s wrong,” Ryan said. “I think You do win in June. You win with your preparation. If I was younger, I’d probably handle him myself. He’s a good player and all that kind of stuff and it is fun to ruffle some feathers. I’ve got no problem doing that. I’m confident in our football team. I’m confident in myself, the players, the coaches and the entire organization. That’s why I say the things I say. I make no apologies for any of those types of things.”

In Ryan’s very first press conference he made an allusion to the Super Bowl, and has said he believes you have to develop that kind of mindset. And Ryan leads by example.

“He wears his emotion on his sleeve and it’s good for us,” S Kerry Rhodes said.

“He let’s us know that we shouldn’t be afraid of saying what we want and that’s to win a Super Bowl,” first-round pick QB Mark Sanchez said. “It’s my first year and they’ve already ingrained that in me.”

In this audio clip, Sanchez answers that question posed by ESPN’s own Sal Paolantonio.

0609sanchezrings

In other news: If Wallace Wright was the unofficial offensive player of the day, then Eric Smith was the unofficial defensive player of the day. The safety had three interceptions today working with the second team defense. Bart Scott intercepted a Kellen Clemens pass, which is likely to only make him more swaggerlicious as this minicamp goes along. (That’s Ryan’s term btw, not mine.)

Unofficial stats, Clemens was 4-for-10 in the second practice and Sanchez was 8-for-15, both with an interception. It was a good day for Sanchez, although Clemens had a beautiful touchdown pass to Jerricho Cotchery in the middle of the end zone.