PITTSFORD, N.Y. -- Thirteen years since they first came together inside the halls of the Baltimore Ravens facility, Mike Pettine and Rex Ryan reunited Monday in a setting Ryan envisioned when he first met the Browns head coach.
In 2002, Pettine left his high school coaching job in Pennsylvania to join the Ravens coaching staff as the “third video guy,” as described in the book “Collision Low Crossers.” Ryan, then Baltimore’s defensive line coach, saw special potential in Pettine, who was eventually promoted to assistant defensive line coach in 2004 and linebackers coach in 2005, the year Ryan became defensive coordinator.