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Rex Ryan scoffs at notion he's facing playoff ultimatum

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The MMQB's Jenny Ventas published a lengthy interview with Buffalo Bills head coach Rex Ryan and brother Rob last week, in which the pair came off as fun-loving but also very boastful.

Filling in for Peter King in this week's Monday Morning Quarterback column, Vrentas passed along a juicy nugget from the Bills head coach that was left out of her initial piece.

Ryan addressed the report that both he and Bills general manager Doug Whaley have been told they will be fired if the Bills don't make the playoffs in 2016, saying he's confident in his job security.

"The media looks at it (like), Well, we have to win this year," Ryan told Vrentas. "Or what? Oh, I am going to be fired? I don't think so. I'm not going to worry about it, because we are going to win anyway. But it's like, that is an ultimatum. No."

The Bills signed Whaley to a contract extension earlier this offseason. Both he and Ryan are under contract with the team through 2019.

Though letting the pair go after a playoff-less 2016 would be costly for new Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula, but they could view it as a necessary cost of doing business for a franchise that has the unenviable distinction of owning the NFL's longest playoff drought.

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