Buddy Ryan Passed Away This Morning

[Squire]

Made the Eagles incredibly fun again. A Defensive Mind ahead of his time. Thanks for the great times Buddy.

[Drama Queen]

RIP

Made the Eagles incredibly fun again. A Defensive Mind ahead of his time. Thanks for the great times Buddy.

Great evaluator of D talent and very innovative as a DC.

[DEERSPINE GUY]

NOT THE BEST HEAD COACH BUT BY FAR THE MOST FUN. GREAT DEFENSIVE MIND.

ALL 700 LEVEL, ALL THE TIME IN THAT MAN'S BLOOD.

[J_Cuz31]

That the Eagles were posting 10 win seasons despite an owner wholly disinterested in winning football games shows you just how great a defensive coach Buddy Ryan truly was.

The Eagles literally went into battle every week with one arm tied behind their backs due to a cheap owner whose mind was on cutting costs and prepping the team for sale.

[TRENT]

Some of my Best memories as an Eagles fan

the Dallas Cowboys! who the hell are they>???! We beat them all the Time!

Ty Buddy,,,RIP!

[The Duck]

the Dallas Cowboys! who the hell are they>???! We beat them all the Time!

Ty Buddy,,,RIP!

I was going to post that quote. 1988, last game of the season, the day we (not they) clinched the NFC East in Texas Stadium (with some help from the Jets against the Giants).

Football was never so much fun.

[G.W. Cooper]

RIP...

Architect of the 46 defense. Fingerprints are still all over todays NFL. RIP

[Ellsworth]

Have thoroughly enjoyed the stroll down memory lane today on WIP, 97.5, and online articles.

[Loki]

How many players...

will call WIP and 97.5 and speak of their love for Rich Kotite? Or how that coach did so much for his career?


Listening to Singletary on ESPN was incredible. He was choking up and talking about how Buddy Ryan made him the player he was on the field and what an influence he was off the field to him.

[Cheesesteak]

RIP Buddy

It was a mix of him and Randall that changed me from casual fan to die-hard. That D he put together was so fun to watch.

I am still haunted by one scene in the 30 for 30 about the '85 Bears...the one shot where Singletary was about to get in his car to leave and the angle of the camera showed Buddy in the background sitting in the passenger seat of his truck and you JUST KNEW that Mike was probably thinking this would be the last moment he would see his good friend and mentor. Chills.

[Raptor]

Rip Buddy!

Made the Eagles incredibly fun again. A Defensive Mind ahead of his time. Thanks for the great times Buddy.

.....thanks for all the great times and memories!!

[Loki]

Yea. The story about the D meeting before the Supe was incredible.

[IronEagle]

RIP Buddy. You made me interested in Iggles football again.

At the time Buddy Ryan started coaching the Eagles, I was just out of college and living on Long Island. Wasn't really concerned about the Iggles at that point of my life.

Then I went back home to Delaware and watched the "Buddy Ryan Show" and I was hooked.

Probably the most fun era of Eagles' football during my lifetime, IMO.

The hatred and disdain of Dallas was intense. The defense put fear into the opposition. So did the Vet.

One can argue that the Andy Reid (FF) area was more successful, but to me there is NO WAY the Reid area was more fun for Igglephans.

Neither coach won a SB for the Birds but at least Buddy made it fun.

With Reid (FF), it was the same result year after year after year with the same result: No SB and a disappointing result in the final game to boot.

[slag]

RIP Buddy, despite bugging the fuck out of me

by not making offense enough of a priority.

That team should have won at least one Super Bowl ... other defenses may have been as good but I never saw a better one.

[IronEagle]

by not making offense enough of a priority.

That team should have won at least one Super Bowl ... other defenses may have been as good but I never saw a better one.

Maybe if you could have paired Buddy and Reid (FF) together somehow you could have had a dynasty.

Instead, we got what we got.

There is no doubt that Buddy's teams were mere enjoyable for me.