Oh, Rob: Rob Ryan says Saints fans blame everything on him — including Hurricane Katrina
Noooo. No, no, no. No, Rob Ryan.
Fired as New Orleans Saints’ defenisve coordinator this past week after two-plus seasons, Ryan is on NFL Network’s “Game Day Morning” as a commentator, and as you’d expect when there’s a camera on a Ryan brother, some funny lines come out.
During a segment about Washington, Ryan said the team turned his “bye week into a bye-bye week,” referring to the 47-14 loss last Sunday that saw quarterback Kirk Cousins post a perfect passer rating against Ryan’s defense, and quipped that New Orleans was so bad this season it is “ranked 33rd in the league and there’s only 32 teams.”
But then Ryan went where he shouldn’t have gone, as you can see in the Vine above, saying “everything in New Orleans is being blamed on me, including [Hurricane] Katrina.”
Host Rich Eisen immediately covers his face with his hand at Ryan’s comment, and Marshall Faulk, who is from New Orleans, laughed uncomfortably.
Being self-deprecating is always good, but Ryan took things way too far. Was the Saints’ defense bad under Ryan? Yes. But to compare the results of games to one of the worst natural disasters in history, which claimed the lives of over 1,200 people is as ill-advised as it gets.
