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For those who believe that Jets coach Rex Ryan’s worst nightmare is a Super Bowl featuring the Patriots against the Giants . . . well, you happen to be right about that.

“Probably true,” Ryan said this morning at Lucas Oil Stadium. “Look, I respect both these teams a great deal, but to say you have your natural rival from New England in the Super Bowl and then you have somebody you share a stadium with, yeah, it’s pretty rough.”

OK, so the man spoke those words not with bile, but with a smile. In the end, though, this one’s going to leave a mark. Consider:

The Jets’ rivalry with the Patriots has become so intense that a legitimate case can be made that it has supplanted Red Sox-Yankees in the ever-boiling rivalry between Boston and New York. And Ryan has done more than anyone to make it so, beginning with his...

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