'“I think players see through coaches trying to be something they’re not. They don’t generally respond to that,” said linebacker Matt Chatham, who played for both the Patriots and Jets, albeit the latter before Ryan’s tenure. “The other things is, if you have an environment like Coach Belichick has and then you don’t stick to it, you all of a sudden break rank and talk smack, I mean, the reason it works is because it’s consistent. The same thing with Rex. If he clams up, it sends a weird message to your team. So it’s consistency. That’s what’s important.”'