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stillers4me
01-21-2011, 05:21 AM
New York Jets coach Rex Ryan is accustomed to raising eyebrows and grabbing headlines with some of the outrageous statements he seems to make on an almost daily basis. But Mike Tomlin? Strangely, he managed to do just that this week when he said he and Ryan "are probably more similar than you would imagine." Talk about your jaw-dropping comments?

Rex Ryan is brash and controversial, comedic and jovial, with no alarm systems to prevent some of the words and sentences that come out of his mouth. If he were a cartoon, he'd be Sponge Bob SquarePants.

Tomlin is none of that. He can be matter of fact, blunt, intellectually challenging and, at times, passionately insightful. But he is unfazed by flattery and seemingly unwilling to revel in achievement or absorb an accolade. On most occasions, he is more guarded than a Brink's truck.....................

Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11021/1119478-66.stm