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Jets coach throws tirade at offense

GOING GREENE: After Rex Ryan berated the Jets’ offense during a team meeting yesterday, it seems Gang Green will start to refocus the offense on Shonn Greene and the running game. (UPI)

It was a Rexplosion that shook the walls inside the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center.

Rex Ryan unloaded on the Jets offense — aka A Schotty in the Dark — in a team meeting yesterday with a tirade that lasted five minutes and was designed to rouse them from their alarming slumber with Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the hated Patriots waiting in ambush to kick the Jets while they’re down.

“He yelled at us,” Matt Slauson told The Post.

For how long?

“Well it was a short meeting because he wanted to get us to film. . . . It was probably like five minutes or so.”

Has he ever done that before?

“Yeah . . . well not quite that extensively. . . . But, yeah, we’ve been yelled at before.”

But the tape was anathema to Ryan because it showed Mark Sanchez and his offense taking it on the chin from a defiant Ravens defense that took no prisoners.

Ryan never promised an outfit that would be Grounded and Pounded like that.

“He said, ‘Our running game’s gonna be back, that’s gotta happen,’ ” Slauson said. ” ‘I don’t care if we have to run it 60 times a game.’ ”

Back to the future, and with the Patriots lurking, the future is now.

I asked Slauson: “A lot of F-Bombs?”

“Yeah. That’s Rex. Even when he’s happy he’s dropping F-Bombs (smile).”

Was it silent in the room?

“Yes. I haven’t seen the room like that since [the Monday following] New England in Week 13 or whenever it was.”

Ryan referred back to a sloppy Friday practice by the offense. He had mentioned it to the media on Friday.

“He did say our Friday practice for our offense was an issue,” Slauson said. “He said we need to put an empashis on practicing it. And that was our emphasis last week, too, because before the Oakland game, our defense really didn’t practice great, and then we lost. So we put an emphasis on having really good practices in the week, and the offense did great. . . . Wednesday, Thursday, great practices. Friday — lazy.”

The defense was spared Mount Ryan’s molten fury.

“Strictly offense-related,” Slauson said.

I asked Slauson: How does the offense feel being called out in front of the whole team?

“We don’t like it . . . it hurts,” he said. “Especially on the offensive line, because we feel mostly responsible. We’re responsible for about 99 percent of that loss.”

Did he direct his anger at the offensive line, or the entire offense?

“It was yelling at the team, while directing it towards the offense,” Slauson said. And specifically the running game . . .

“That was half of the ordeal.”

What was the other half?

“The execution, and the mistakes, and the practice.”

Did he bring up the Patriots at all?

“He did say that we’re gonna get it fixed, and we should be excited to play the Patriots because everyone’s counting us out, and we get a chance to beat them now,” Slauson said.

Ryan has repeatedly told fans and media the Jets have nothing to hide, which frees his players to be themselves and speak their mind. Ryan was subdued at his press conference last night.

“I’m subdued, but there’s probably a little more fire burning inside of me than maybe I’m letting on to,” he said.

Informed that Slauson had told the media the head coach was “[ticked]” Ryan declined to elaborate.

“One thing about me, there’s a lot smarter guys than me and all that stuff, but there’s nobody more competitive,” Ryan said, “and they’re gonna get my best shot.”

The Jets find themselves in crisis mode in large part because they have been seduced by the growth of Sanchez, but too much so for their own good.

“We need to get our identity back as a running team that throws after the fact,” Slauson said.

When asked about Santonio Holmes calling on the offensive line and Sanchez to step it up, Ryan said: “The good thing about us is we don’t mute ourselves. We don’t tell our guys, ‘Hey let’s not say this or not say that.’ At that time, you get it handed to you like Baltimore handed it to us, you don’t feel real good about it. The frustration is we know that Mark can be a great quarterback, we gotta protect him.”

Joe Namath, on ESPN radio yesterday, called Holmes’ postgame comments “a mistake” and potentially divisive.

“We don’t care one bit about what Joe Namath has to say,” Slauson said. “He means nothing to us.”

Sounds like the Rexplosion has the Jets in an ornery mood.

steve.serby@nypost.com