San Francisco Chronicle

Jets’ Ryan prepared for firing?

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Although no organizati­onal moves have been announced, Jets head coach Rex Ryan appears to believe his stay with the team will end soon and began clearing out his office prior to Saturday’s team flight to Florida for a game against the Dolphins, New York’s Newsday reported.

According to Newsday, team owner Woody Johnson has lined up former Redskins general manager Charley Casserly to assist him in the event that he fires Ryan and/or second-year GM John Idzik. Casserly, in turn, reached out to former Packers GM Ron Wolf about assisting him with the potential candidate searches.

Ryan has a 45-50 record in six seasons with the team, but the Jets are 3-12 this season and will miss the playoffs for the fourth consecutiv­e season.

Ryan’s players assume a major shakeup is inevitable.

“It’s expected,” defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson said. “Our record says it, so it’s expected. Just got to prepare for the worst.”

During the past few months, several players have gone to bat for Ryan, who is beloved and respected by his team. Ryan, however, has maintained that Sunday’s game won’t be emotional — even if it is his last as the Jets’ coach.

“Do the very best job you can do,” he said. “That is what you sign up for and that is what you do. I am myself every single day. I’m just as steady as they come. You expect your players to wipe out the outside things, to play with those blinders on. That is the way I have been.

“All of the other outside stuff has not been a distractio­n to me. It is just focus on the job at hand, and that is what I do.”

Gordon out: The Browns suspended wide receiver Josh Gordon on the eve of their season finale against the Ravens for a violation of team rules. He served a 10game suspension for repeated drug violations earlier this year.

A person familiar with the situation said Gordon was suspended for missing a morning walkthroug­h in Berea, Ohio, before the team flew to Baltimore.

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