Former New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan won't be unemployed for long.
Whether he joins a new NFL franchise or takes a cushy spot as an ESPN analyst, Ryan is assured a healthy football future.
While Ryan and his big, boisterous personality would, no doubt, play very well as a part of the Worldwide Leader, his first choice is most likely to stay on the sidelines and get back to finding a way to win the Super Bowl that seemed so close with the Jets only a handful of seasons ago.
To that end, Ryan already has interviews set up with a couple of NFL franchises that recently jettisoned their own Super Bowl-less head coaches - the San Francisco 49ers and the Atlanta Falcons, according to a tweet by Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News.
The 49ers parted ways with head coach Jim Harbaugh after the season despite an amazing run of success that included three straight NFC Championship games and a Super Bowl appearance in four seasons.
Mike Smith was given the boot in Atlanta despite a 66-46 regular season record. After starting his tenure with five straight winning seasons, Smith's Falcons posted two losing seasons in a row, the most recent of which ended with an absolute trouncing at the hands of the division rival Carolina Panthers in a game that decided the division and yielded a playoff berth.
Ryan was axed in New York after six seasons. He found immediate success, taking the team to the AFC Championship in each of his first two years on the job, but things fizzled thereafter, as his squad failed to reach the postseason four years running, thanks in large part to a quarterback position that Ryan was never quite able to settle.
