Ryan never managed to bring the Lombardi Trophy back to the Jets, but he did inject the organization with some much-needed swagger. That brashness was in place before the Jets ever played a game with Ryan on the sideline. "I never came here to kiss Bill Belichick's rings," Ryan told a New York radio station six months after his hiring. "I came to win. Let's just put it that way. So we'll see what happens. I'm certainly not intimidated by New England or anybody else." The adventure had begun.