Well, I for one have no problem with Revis wanting more money, but what he did in OTAs to Rex pissed me off. When lied to Rex and sat out to bitch about his contract, he put himself completely above this team. If he ever pulls that again, I will no longer like that guy again.
But this isn't how Rex's defense actually works. It uses overloads elsewhere to force the ball towards Revis, who actually has only a middling interception percentage because he drops a few balls every season. It's quite possible that having Cromartie play the Revis position in the defense would create several (or even many) more interceptions than we got last season at the expense of several (or even many) more completions by the offense. The idea that Revis is the perfect person to play that position in the defense depends largely on whether you favor a low completion percentage on passes forced into that area or a large number of interceptions occurring on passes forced into that area. Nobody sees the role that the primary cover corner plays clearly in that defense because we've only seen one year of the defense to date. Cromartie might be better in the defense than Revis, because of their differing strengths.
Cro's ball skills are better, but he'd get beat more. His technique is no where near Revis', and I don't feel its something to sacrifice over more INTs, because there would be more TDs given up by the secondary this year. I'd like the number 8 (TDs allowed by the secondary), and it should stay there or go down this year. Rex decided that the strongest part of the defense last year needed to get stronger. I'd rather have the safties dictate where the ball is going in terms of who they are rolling towards. Pool can roll to either sideline, having both Revis and Cro manned up and him being the decider on who is going one on one with a receiver. revis did drop about 3 or 4 INTs this season, but that's going to happen.
I wonder how many of Cro's 10 picks when he was in man coverage was with safety presence in a zone behind him, thus forcing the QB to a more specific window, and how many were when he was alone on his side of the field with the safeties' zones shifted or taking on other responsibilities....
So he has been the #1 CB for the Jets for ONE year and he thinks he deserves 20 million a year? LMAO Aso was his teams #1 for about 4 years before he got his big deal which only equals out to 15 million a year and he's by far a better CB then Revis, atleast at this point. Revis looks better because of the style of the heavy blitzing Jets D. Put Revis on an island with Evans, Moss, and Marshall and see how he does first before giving him 20 million a year.
After reading the first sentence I figured it could only get better from their. Somehow it actually continued to gradually get worse though. Impressive :up:
How about the guy that won the Defensive Player of the year award last year. He has played great several years now. REVIS is great but he is still wet behind the ears.I hope he grows up before too long.
Why all the bitching? ESPN The Magazine gave him the title "Best Defender in Sports" and he was doing some media stuff for them. It's not like he came out and just declared himself the best defender in sports.
In all team sports? No, and I would say he needs to accomplish a helluva lot more to compare to guys like Brodeur and Lidstrom, who have been the best or close to it at their respective positions for over a decade.
Seriously. I just now watched the video after the title change, and it makes all of those initial overreactions seem a bit crazy. It's all ESPN, nothing about him actually declaring it. And just in general on Revis, I love having the guy as a Jet, but he isn't a requirement to winning the Super Bowl. It's that easy, he's a great, great player, but in time all players can be replaced.
