... to have to step up, how we expect him to make great strides this year, and how he was going to be a big reason in our successes moving forward," said Rex Ryan to the New Jersey Star-Ledger. 

"He's just got a role with it now where he's going to be a starter. We'll see how he does."

Interpretation is key. Ryan's words can be deciphered as a simple motivational tactic, or be completely misconstrued as a declaration of something that has yet to be appropriately evaluated.

To put it bluntly, mid-July is too early to thrust a marginal player into a starting role without seeing how he performs when full cont...

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