What about Bob?

It wasn't until a few years ago that Jets coach Rex Ryan realized why he struggled so much in school. The Jets' rookie head coach admitted recently he'd been diagnosed with dyslexia.

"It was really frustrating," Ryan told The Associated Press. "So much of school, you have to write, but I just struggled. I couldn't help it."

Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability that affects people's abilities to read, spell, write and pronounce words. Ryan, 46, was diagnosed with dyslexia a few years ago when his oldest son, Payton, was tested for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

"They gave me a test, too, and there were like 100 words, not real words, but letters just thrown out there," Ryan said. "It might've taken me, I don't know, maybe 15 minutes to read it out. They brought in my youngest son, who was maybe 10 or 12 at that time, and he read it in like a minute.

"The further we went along with it, the more I realized, 'Man, oh, man. I can see where I definitely had it.'"

Making it more difficult for Ryan was the fact his mother, Doris, has a doctorate in education and was a vice president of the University of New Brunswick in Canada. His father, former Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan, was a two-time academic All-American before becoming one of the NFL's top defensive coaches.

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