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You’re next, Rex.
You’ll be Rexiled next.
It is clear now Rex Ryan doesn’t have Woody Johnson’s ear anymore, because he will now be coaching for his job in 2013 without Darrelle Revis, who is taking his talents to Tampa for a high-risk six-year, $96 million deal but nary a red cent of it guaranteed.
It’s a “deal of historic proportions,” according to GM John Idzik, Johnson’s new consigliere.
A franchise-altering deal that will lead this tortured franchise in a new direction.
With a new head coach.
Ryan’s parting gift is the 13th pick of Thursday night’s NFL Draft — and nothing else, because the conditional 2014 fourth-rounder that could become a third-rounder will belong to someone else.
Of course Johnson and Idzik didn’t get enough for Revis, only got what they could in the absence of a gold rush for a shutdown corner who was shut down last season by a torn ACL.
“It definitely muddies the water a little bit,” Idzik conceded.
It is a victory only in that it is better than getting nothing at all at the end of the 2013 season when Revis could have taken his talents to the Patriots or Giants, or anyone else.
Only the Jets could find themselves trying to untangle themselves from such a Buttfumbled mess.
This much is obvious: This is no longer Rex’s team. The party is over for him.
It is Idzik’s team.
Ryan will never admit it publicly, but he has officially met his Waterloo, and assuming he remains gung-ho on collecting his $3 million salary in 2013 for being the fall guy, assuming he is not the type to fax in his resignation, then by the time the season ends, he will be smaller than Napoleon in and around the NFL.
Mark Sanchez was put in a position to fail in 2012, left alone on Sanchez Island with Tim Tebow, and Ryan has now been put in a position to fail in 2013. He is a lame-duck coach coaching a lame team, and he better duck.
Call the movie Rex, Lies and Videotape.
What did Rex know, and when did he know it? If he knew anything?
Because either Rex lied to us, and to Revis, when he repeatedly denied the Revis trade rumors, or Johnson and Idzik lied to him that the organization had absolutely no desire to show him the money.
Because it sure looks now that Rex sold Revis down the river.
“I was involved in the entire process,” Rex said last night.
Oh really?
“I never had one conversation with any other team, any other coach, any GM directly,” Rex said. “Absolutely had zero contact with anybody.”
Weak, Rex. We all know that’s not your job.
“I can say ever since I’ve been here, Rex and I have been joined at the hip,” Idzik said.
Is there a surgeon in the house?
Team Woody is spinning it that this is a deal both for the short-term and long-term, but c’mon. They are building for the future — a future without Revis, and almost certainly without Ryan.
An immediate future that, for Jets fans and Ryan alike, can best be described as post-Darrelle Hell.
Nevertheless, the owner and the new GM made the right call here, a necessary evil, because you don’t kneecap your salary cap on a cornerback who, by his lonesome on Revis Island, wouldn’t get you anywhere near the Super Bowl. And Ryan Island is a long, long way from the historic first New York-New Jersey Super Bowl. You don’t pay any cornerback $16 million, especially when you are stuck paying Sanchez and former captain Santonio Holmes.
Of course, let it be noted that any Jet leverage was compromised by yet another leak that the owner was only willing to guarantee Revis a plane ticket out of town.
This can’t be a day of celebration for PSL holders, because it is a day of resignation and grim reality that the future is no longer now, and Sundays will be exercises in further suffering until Idzik can find a new franchise quarterback and surround him with gamebreakers and pass rushers, for starters.
Now we see what kind of football man Idzik really is.
Because now, with the ninth and 13th picks in Thursday’s draft, ldzik needs to find a Marty Lyons, and not a Dewayne Robertson … a Marvin Powell, and not a Mike Haight … a Curtis Martin, and not a Blair Thomas … an Al Toon, and not a Lam Jones … a Darrelle Revis.
Idzik must make this pick count, and as long as there is a consensus and conviction among his personnel people, it’s time to target your next franchise quarterback — Geno Smith, E.J. Manuel or Ryan Nassib.
“We will play great defense here, I don’t think that’s even a question,” Ryan said. “We’re fortunate to have Antonio Cromartie here.”
So all of a sudden his beloved Darrelle Revis won’t be missed? This is called trying to save your own hide.
“We’re going to pick up some very good talent, I hope, in the draft. … I think he’ll make the best use of it,” Johnson said.
So on Opening Day — when the Jets play host to the Bucs — if Revis makes it all the way back by then, Sanchez or David Garrard will be avoiding him like the plague and throwing to the other side of the field.
The good news — if Jets fans can consider it good news — is Idzik may very well own the ninth pick of the 2014 NFL draft. Or higher. A nice enticement for the next head coach.
steve.serby@nypost.com