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Proving once and for all that everything is relative, Bills coach Rex Ryan has found a way to talk up a game between his 5-5 team and the 2-8 Jaguars.

“That’s the best two-win team I’ve ever seen,” Ryan said of the Jaguars, via Nick Veronica of the Buffalo News. “That’s the truth. I don’t get it. Statistically, they’re the seventh-rated defense in the league [in yards per game]. They’re ranked higher than we are on defense. Their offense is 21st in the league but now they’re healthy outside and they got three guys that can really play.”

Hopefully Ryan stretched before his press conference, because he was reaching hard, pulling out the NFL Network’s offseason inventory Top 100 players list, noting there were five Jaguars to only three Bills.

“They had way more top 100 players than we did last year,” Ryan said. “Looking at all that stuff, I thought it was the Jacksonville show. But you got a franchise quarterback, that’s what they all tell me. You got Chris Ivory at running back, who’s a great back – I had him with the Jets, I know all about him; he’s a handful – and you got [Allen] Hurns, [Allen] Robinson and [Marqise] Lee is really playing well. . . . So if you think we’re going to overlook them, there’s no chance.”

Of course, they’ll also be motivated by losing to the Jaguars in London last season, with a pass interference call that may or may not have been legitimate helped the Jagaurs along. But mostly he wanted to make sure no one overlooked the Jaguars for the talent.

“Well hell, we’ve only won five,” Ryan said. “So I guess you can look at that, but who are we to look [down] at a two-win team? I don’t care if we’re playing West Seneca. It makes no difference right now. We know what our job is. We have to win and we recognize that and we know that.”

Ryan makes a valuable point, his team is three wins better than the perpetually rebuilding Jaguars, so they have no right to discredit anyone.