New York Post

Who’s Rex to Judge anyone?

- mushnickph­ilip@gmail.com

ESPN’S Rex Ryan (below) this week ripped Joe Judge for a lack of class. That’s rich.

Ryan’s class included the episode that happened after he became head coach of the Bills following his seasons with the Jets. After Jets QB Geno Smith’s jaw was broken by a sucker punch from teammate IK Enemkpali, Ryan’s Bills signed the defensive end.

Ryan then sent Enemkpali, a twoseasons NFL sub, to serve as a coin-toss captain for the Bills before a game against the Jets — a classless, unprofessi­onal, childish move.

➤ Post-play preening has become so obligatory that Saturday, after his team retained the ball on a roughing-the-kicker call, Broncos punter Sam Martin rose to perform a first-down gesture. Wonder if he’d have done the same while being wheeled off on a gurney?

➤ Naturally, this NIL (name, image, likeness) ruling — anything that involves money — has driven college sports lower, more seedy. NIL has allegedly already been misapplied by colleges as freeagent pools for high school recruits. It’s a new form of payola that will further render college athletics a scam.

➤ I wonder how many NBA broadcaste­rs — TV and radio, local and national — recognize that the NBA is sinking under the weight of 3-point bombings, that they’ve replaced strategic basketball, but are unable to say so. Put it this way: How does one classify a game with 80-90 3s a good, well-played game?

➤ CBS is still posting color-coded, vertically boxed graphics giving viewers about 12 seconds to read a list of a QB’s previous 10 passes and whether they were complete (and for how far) or incomplete. Apparently, saying, “He’s eight-for-hispast-10” would be too easy.

➤ With Dobie gone, it won’t be the same down at the Gillis Grocery Store. Think I’ll go downtown with Maynard and watch ’em tear down the old Endicott Building.

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