Many Buffalo Bills fan jump on Rex Ryan because they say he’s a players coach. He always backs his guys and has a great relationship with them. People believe that this means he is not a disciplinarian and it leads to his teams being over-penalized due to this lack of discipline. Rex would dispute that point. As reported by the YES Network in 2010 he said:
“The environment that we have, I think, works. This is who we are. We’re maybe not traditional, the way you see other teams, but don’t make that mistake in thinking that we’re less disciplined than another team or anything else.