Even NFL coaches need a hand now and then.
Jets coach Rex Ryan revealed to The Post yesterday that in the wake of his team’s disastrous 24-22 loss to the Jaguars, he plans on reaching out for advice to more than a few people outside the organization, including his father, Buddy Ryan, Brian Billick, Jack Del Rio, Marvin Lewis . . . and former Jets and Giants coach Bill Parcells.
“It’s not like Bill Belichick’s gonna talk to me,” Ryan said. “Parcells may. I may put a call out to him. I know a lot of guys in this business. . . . I’m searching right now.”
Would the Dolphins’ czar field a call from a division foe?
“I don’t know,” Ryan said. “But there’s no doubt, I’ll put a call in to him.”
Hall of Fame linebacker Harry Carson, who played for Parcells with the Giants, believes that Parcells would take the call.
“I think Bill would be willing to help Rex, or guide Rex,” Carson said. “Bill’s been there, he’s done that. He’s coached that team, he knows what the organization is about, he knows what New York is about.”
Parcells, following his 3-12-1 rookie season with the Giants in 1983, sought out advice from Al Davis, Tom Landry, Chuck Knox and Chuck Noll.
“I don’t think I was being myself,” he said. “I was too wrapped up acting like I thought a head coach was supposed to act and not really being a good leader. Hey, just be Bill Parcells. It’s not for everybody, but that’s the way it goes.”
His advice for Ryan?
“Just to be himself,” Parcells said.
At the 1986 Pro Bowl, Carson played for Buddy Ryan, who was leaving the Bears to take the head coaching job with the Eagles.
“I don’t know Rex personally, but I can tell he’s very much like his dad,” Carson said. “His players loved him, and I could see why they loved him so much.”