Rex Ryan's Diet: 7,000 Calories A Day? (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Anyone who has watched a few Jets games knows that head coach Rex Ryan is a big guy, but if a New York Post report is to be believed, the trash-talking coach may be on pace for some kind of record.

According to the article, Ryan takes in 7,000 calories every day, an astounding figure that would place his diet among the craziest in sports -- although it still wouldn't touch Michael Phelps' reported haul during the 2008 Olympics.

Sources tell the Post that the coach's favorite food is Mexican, which his assistants refer to as "Rexican." In any case, if that is what it takes for him to keep winning games and to continue delivering world-class postgame speeches (scroll down for his latest masterpiece), it's unlikely any Jets fans will be complaining. Photo and video below.

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[SweetLemonPie]

04:45 AM on 01/22/2010

Somebody tell him, he's no Michael Phelps.

[future primitive]

03:26 AM on 01/22/2010

FOR THE DOUBTERS: I will speak from personal experience. If you fail certain strenuous physical fitness tests in Marine Corps boot camp (This was 1984), they put you in a thing called physical conditioning platoon or PCP. In PCP, recruits do all of the regular regimen PLUS extreme weight training sessions three days a week, a whole lot more calisthenics, AND hard labor every afternoon (filling sandbags, digging trenches, etc).

In PCP, overweight recruits were put on a "diet" that was 3000 calories. Everybody else ate everything they could get their hands on piled high and heaping. I was not on the "diet" and still felt like I was starving. I managed to get duty guarding barracks while the platoon ate meals, then the guards went. This gave us an extra 5 minutes or so to sit and eat, more than the 15 or so minutes the platoon ate.

I ate everything on my tray and a portion of an underweight recruit's food at every meal (he couldn't). My later calculations told me I was eating 6,000 calories every day. I felt nauseous after every 20 minute feed and was starving by the next opportunity. I was there 20 days. I lost a pound a day.

So 7,000 is very doable. But you would get huge like this coach without a lot of exercise.

[Balzac]

02:04 AM on 01/22/2010

Get 'em Jets. Under other circumstances, I might root for fellow Tennessee born Peyton Manning, but not this time! The team must not fail Rex, and they must not fail the team owners, and especially the New York fans. Jets are the team to beat, because they're over-coming probability. I put money on the Jets over the Colts. My money is in this game.

[wwoody]

11:45 PM on 01/21/2010

Rex first exercise should be pushing away from the table, and start off cutting his intake in half. Rex is a good coach. GO JETS GO.

[wwoody]

11:40 PM on 01/21/2010

Rex is a big man, I doubt very seriously he take in 7000 calories a day. That is simply too much food.

[billinga]

05:43 PM on 01/21/2010

I would like to know Nate Kaeding's caloric intake. He did more to win the game for the jets on Sunday than the jets did. Bit of a reach that these jokers are celebrating at all when they should be counting their lucky charms.

How do you feel good about winning by three points when the opposing team misses 3 field goals (-9 points)? Ground and pound ? That has nothing to do with a plcae kicker shooting blanks on a massive scale. San Diego played like a sack of potatoes on top of Kaedings misfires, one of the worst games ever. Why would any team tout a major victory based on your team playing horribly, but just not as horribly as the opposing team. Chargers had no business losing that one. It was like Obama was their place kicker and the senate seat was on the line. oops, too soon?

Eat it up Ryan, you'll need the extra calories for the winter hibernation the Colts will impart on you this week.

And Yeah, i know a win is a win. Tough "ish" for San Diego.

[jbkelly]

04:45 PM on 01/21/2010

I feel bad for his knees.

[cframe423]

11:51 AM on 01/21/2010

Obesity + high-stress job = heart-attack

[Balzac]

02:05 AM on 01/22/2010

No time for that right now.

[avvocato]

01:45 PM on 01/22/2010

Andy Reid has been doing the same thing for 11 years. No Heart Attack yet!

[mnwildfan]

09:49 PM on 01/20/2010

Well.....da.

[ruffdeezy]

08:39 PM on 01/20/2010

He needs to be on the biggest loser.

[dropthedh]

04:12 PM on 01/20/2010

Get that baby into my belly!!

[HappyRabbit]

04:06 PM on 01/20/2010

According to dailyplate.com, a 6'1", 48 year old, 425 lb. man would require about 4400 calories a day to maintain his weight with light activity.You could up that to about 5000 with moderate activity. Height and weight are guesses. If he eats 7000 regularly he would be gaining (a lot) of weight, more than 2lb/week!

[justdoodling]

01:46 PM on 01/21/2010

How do you know he isn't?

[bluejoni2525]

03:48 PM on 01/20/2010

We love you Rex !!! We want you to be around for a long time because you are doing such a GREAT job !! Maybe a little cut back on the calories would be good. I wish you could manage my Mets too :-)

[DickTater]

03:04 PM on 01/20/2010

Input - 7000 calories

Output - 5.6 lbs

[avshanbh]

02:26 PM on 01/20/2010

Is he one of the backup lineman?