No bleepin’ way.
Rex Ryan and HBO didn’t go that far, but the head coach and network agree the Jets won’t return as the featured team on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” this season.
“I think we’re done with it,” Ryan said Thursday with a laugh in an interview on NFL Network from the league’s Scouting Combine.
HBO on Friday confirmed Ryan’s programming choice, but said it would welcome an encore at some point.
“We will give Rex and the Jets the year off from ‘Hard Knocks.’ But you never know what the future holds,” HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg said in a statement. “It took many years before there was a ‘Star Wars’ sequel. Hopefully someday Rex and the New York Jets will be back on HBO.”
Ryan and his team made national headlines weekly during their five-episode run, which started with a memorable, profanity-filled speech about the Jets reaching the Super Bowl.
They fell one game short again, losing in the AFC Championship to the Steelers, behaving throughout the season just as they did during the behind-the-scenes reality program.
Ryan and GM Mike Tannenbaum filmed an episode of the CBS drama “CSI: NY” this week.
Training camps could be cut short this season if the expected NFL lockout drags into the summer.
HBO has not announced plans for its next installment. The Cowboys are the only team to have appeared on the show twice, in 2002 and 2008.

