Rex Ryan doesn't welcome advice from Herm Edwards

The last person Rex Ryan wants to take coaching advice from is Herm Edwards.

Ryan bristled Tuesday during an ESPN New York radio spot when host Michael Kay informed him that Edwards, a former Jets coach, and Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young disagreed with the Jets' decision to play Geno Smith on Sunday in San Diego after the quarterback missed a team meeting the night before.

"If Herm Edwards gets to coach another team again, then he can do exactly what he wants," Ryan said. "I'm going to run this team the way I see fit -- not how Steve Young sees fit, not how Herm Edwards [sees fit]."

Edwards, the former head coach-turned-ESPN analyst who was fired after the Jets finished 4-12 in 2005, said on ESPN New York radio that Ryan should have benched all of the players who missed the meeting because they were at the movies after mixing up the three-hour time zone difference.

But Ryan wasn't in the mood to hear the opinion of Edwards, who led the Jets to a 39-41 overall record from 2001-05 and the Kansas City Chiefs to a 15-33 finish over the next three seasons.

"No offense, I don't care to be compared to him, anyway," Ryan said.

Ryan said the hype surrounding the incident is somewhat overblown because it was only a 10-minute meeting and not "a two-hour meeting."

"He wasn't trying to skip out on anything," Ryan said. "This young man does just the opposite. He's here before anybody else in different meetings. He just made a mistake and that's the way it is . . . To say that he should be suspended, I wouldn't do that with any player."