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Bills coach Rex Ryan met with the media on Monday, a day after the Sunday splash reports pegged him as potentially being fired on Monday. (He hasn’t been, yet.)

Here’s something else that apparently hasn’t happened on Monday, yet. Rex Ryan has gotten no assurances from ownership that he’ll finish the season, or that he’ll be back next year.

“I really don’t know what to feel,” Ryan said regarding whether he’s on the hot seat. “I’ve been in this game a long time and I know one thing, to do the very best job that I can do, I have to focus on what’s right in front of me, and that’s the Cleveland Browns. I promise you, that’s exactly what I’m going to do, so I’m not going to think one minute about something that may or may not happen. I know one thing, we’re playing the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, and we obviously have to play better than we did this past week.”

That general observation regarding his own status came before he explained the manner in which he communicates with Terry and Kim Pegula.

“I talk to the Pegulas every week,” Ryan said. “I talk to them on Fridays, I talk to them immediately after the game, and I’ll talk to them today — like, on Mondays. That hasn’t changed one bit. But, you know, we don’t talk about speculation.”

But why wouldn’t they talk about speculation? Rex could say something like, “I’m trying to focus on winning football games, but someone is apparently talking to the media about my status and that doesn’t help me focus. So what is my status?”

Instead, Ryan dismissed the notion that someone in the organization is talking to the media about his status as “an assumption that you can make and whether that’s true or not, I don’t know.”

He may not know, but he has a way to try to find out. He can talk to ownership, and he can ask specific questions about where he stands.

It’s a fair question to ask, and it’s fair to expect a straight answer. If they want him, they need to tell him. If they don’t, they should fire him.