Tom Brady's Rex Ryan Call Deals With Buffalo Bills Defensive Fronts

Tom Brady's Rex Ryan Call Deals With Buffalo Bills Defensive Fronts Much has been made of the fact that the New England Patriots QB Tom Brady used a call called "Rex Ryan" against the Buffalo Bills, coached by the man of the same name. But it wasn't a joke so much as it was a way to deal with the wild and shifting Bills defensive fronts. Normally Brady or any QB will call out the middle linebacker as Mike and the defensive front as 3-4 or 4-3 or odd or even. But when the defenders are not set, you can't make that call. That is what Rex Ryan does - so the Pats made up a way to identify the Rex Ryan Defense. It tells the offense what kind of blocking to use and in this case it looked like straight man for man with a fold block in the middle. The Bills stopped it.

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