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It’s official, Rex Ryan is back with the Baltimore Ravens. He has been resigned to a 3-year deal and retains his position of defensive coordinator and gets the added title of assistant head coach. Rex had been interviewed by the Dolphins and the Falcons for their coaching vacancies, but was passed over. He was never interviewed for the Redskins job. So what does this hire mean?

The easy answer is that Rex returns to head one of the best defenses in the NFL for the past few years. His defense even brought the mighty 2007 Patriots down to the wire. As a Ravens fan I am very excited to continue the defensive dominance that has become the calling card of this Rex Ryan led squad.

I think my biggest surprise was that nobody saw fit to hire this man as a head coach. Even the Ravens themselves decided to go with a coordinator with no previous head coaching experience. New and unproven seems to be in vogue this year. The Ravens were smart enough to retain Ryan and by giving him the title of assistant they show him that they respect him and what he has done for the team. With Cam Cameron coaching the offense and Ryan holding down the defense, the future looks bright for the Baltimore Ravens.

Image courtesy of The Baltimore Sun (photo by Gene Sweeney Jr. / August 15, 2007).