Revis officially retires

[Losmeister]

27 minutes ago, Jet Nut said:

He impacted the game every week just by lining up across from an opponents best WR and taking him out of the game plan.  

How can people not see this and only read INT totals?

How can you compare 53 INTS to 29 and 10 ff to 4 and even take your own argumnet seriously.

10 return TD to 3...

 

ffs  I'll take the ball back for my offense 24 more time and the 7Tds

 

[Losmeister]

and I've made my point. Not tryna convince no one. Peace.

[jmat321]

No way on the 1st ballot.  When I think HOF corners, I think Deon and Darrell Green.  Both played at the highest level for pretty much their entire careers.  He may get in based on the "hype" of his era.  Not sure if I'd vote him in personally.

[JetNation]

One of the best ever to put on a Jets uniform, if not the best, has called it quits.

Former Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis announced via instagram that he was going to be retiring after 11 seasons in the NFL, a handful of which placed him among the greatest ever to step on the field.

Darrelle Revis consistently matched up against the top receivers in the NFL. In his prime, he made them disappear.

The four-time All-Pro spent 8 of his 11 pro seasons as a member of the Jets, with stops in Tampa Bay, New England and Kansas City at different points in his career.

Revis will now move on to the next chapter of his life after thanking his coaches, teammates and mentors who helped him navigate  his 11-year career.  A career that will surely end with an induction in to Canton’s Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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[GKnight83]

Oh, I thought he retired in 2012.  ?

[Patriot Killa]

4 hours ago, Joe W. Namath said:

Strange career.  His first few year he was good, was great for about 3 years, was ok for a year or 2, then stunk for 2 years.

To bad he didnt have a few more great years or he would be a HOFer.

He’s a future 1st ballot Hall Of Famer. You sound ridiculous.

[RutgersJetFan]

1 hour ago, Jet Nut said:

He impacted the game every week just by lining up across from an opponents best WR and taking him out of the game plan.  

How can people not see this and only read INT totals?

People see it. They don't care and it's because he was a pretty sh*tty person and teammate. Reap what you sow.

[Klecko73isGod]

3 hours ago, JiF said:

Mevi$ Slouch - even on his way out...

There it is!!!!

 

One last Mevi$ Slouch

[Integrity28]

1 hour ago, nyjunc said:

Joe is the most important Jet of all time, Revis is the best player we have ever had. The only long time Jet in the discussion for best of all time at his position.

We drafted Revis in 2007 and he's a lock Hall of famer, our last drafted Hall of famer was John riggins in the early 70s and he made it because of his days as a Redskin.

Revis isn’t in the discussion for best all-time corner. He’s have had to do it for more than 1-2 years. sh*t Namdi Asomuigh had 1-2 great seasons, then sucked. He’s not GOAT material. Revis was good for a short stint, lots of guys like that in the leagues history. Few make the HOF.

 

[Integrity28]

1 hour ago, jmat321 said:

No way on the 1st ballot.  When I think HOF corners, I think Deon and Darrell Green.  Both played at the highest level for pretty much their entire careers.  He may get in based on the "hype" of his era.  Not sure if I'd vote him in personally.

This.

[Jet Nut]

1 hour ago, Losmeister said:

How can you compare 53 INTS to 29 and 10 ff to 4 and even take your own argumnet seriously.

10 return TD to 3...

 

ffs  I'll take the ball back for my offense 24 more time and the 7Tds

 

Because it makes much more sense to look at receptions and yards against.  Not to penalize a player for shutting down half the field like you're doing.  

[Jet Nut]

41 minutes ago, RutgersJetFan said:

People see it. They don't care and it's because he was a pretty sh*tty person and teammate. Reap what you sow.

True, I agree.  People don't like him so they're talking nonsense like he was only good for 1 or 2 seasons.  Pure nonsense

[MDL_JET]

Revis had 2 special HOF seasons in 2009 and 2010. The rest he was pretty good. I don't know if that really warrants 1st ballot status. Would've liked to see a few more elite seasons.

[Matt39]

Ronde Barber is on the waiting list. Other guys like Samuel, Talib who had a lot of picks and won Sb’s will probably hurt Revis chances at first ballot. Writers always have strange guidelines.

[Kleckineau]

2 hours ago, Losmeister said:

i heard opposing QBs had their kids moved into witness protection as well.

[prime21]

I know people are going to post angry responses, but I'm going to say it anyway: Revis gave the Jets three elite seasons, and was never the same after his injury. He basically gave up towards the end of his career, had a crappy attitude, and his priority was always the money. 
I think Aaron Glenn in his prime was just as good and more durable than Revis. Remember, opposing QBs never threw to Glenn's side of the field either. Glenn was also a team-first player who was willing to return kickoffs and gave everything he had every time he was on the field
 

Aaron Glenn? C’mon Maaaaaaan!


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[RoadFan]

Curtis Martin was a much better Jet.  As a person, and when you view their careers as a whole. 

Revis was a mercenary.  He was never a Jet.   All the Jets did was draft him.   Even when he returned, he showed his loyalty by squeezing them again for more money than anybody should have paid and playing out of shape.

 

[BigRy56]

The guy is without question a hall of famer. Do you HAVE to go into the hall of fame affiliated with a team? If not, I wouldn't be surprised if he went in without one. He screwed us, he can't go in as a Patriot because he didn't play there long enough, and he was a joke in TB.

[Saul Goodman]

I remember his rookie season. He got beat a few times (think T.O. got the best of him in a MNF game), but you could just see the immense talent. What a competitor. His 2009 season was among the best seasons any NFL player has had. 

[Larz]

I'm holding out for a better retirement post 

[joewilly12]

Revis one of the best all-time NY Jets players especially at the CB position.

Thanks for the memories Darrelle Revis

[Integrity28]

Jetnut neg reps = validation of my points.

[CrazyCarl40]

Just so everyone knows it’s possible that he was both a really good player and a really big asshat. 

Carry on. 

[T0mShane]

START SAVING, @Matt39.

[Matt39]

7 minutes ago, T0mShane said:

START SAVING, @Matt39.

I'd say it's 50/50

[T0mShane]

34 minutes ago, Matt39 said:

I'd say it's 50/50

So hard to say. I could definitely see the writers punishing him for pulling the olé on that tackle “attempt” vs the Pats this year. 

[slimjasi]

From 2009-2012 (until his big knee injury), he was the best pure cover corner that I have ever seen. 

[Matt39]

9 minutes ago, T0mShane said:

So hard to say. I could definitely see the writers punishing him for pulling the olé on that tackle “attempt” vs the Pats this year. 

Whatever Gary Myers decides to do, I'd do the opposite. 

[detectivekimble]

6 hours ago, RutgersJetFan said:

People see it. They don't care and it's because he was a pretty sh*tty person and teammate. Reap what you sow.

sh*tty person?  Really?  Enough of this nonsense.  Take a walk around Livingston, NJ and ask people if Revis is a sh*tty person.  I've seen the way he treats people when the camera isn't running.  He's a good guy.  Oh, and his teammates liked him.  They understood that this is a business and Revis knew how to play the game.

And this is why no one wants to play for the Jets.  Instead of celebrating our HoF players, we're busy tearing them down and trying to explain why they're actually not HoF players.  No, this dude was an amazing player and played in a time where the rules favored the WRs.

The more great HoF players the Jets have, the better.  And I hope like hell that Sam Darnold follows Revis into the HoF.

[Bleedin Green]

5 hours ago, Integrity28 said:

Revis isn’t in the discussion for best all-time corner. He’s have had to do it for more than 1-2 years. sh*t Namdi Asomuigh had 1-2 great seasons, then sucked. He’s not GOAT material. Revis was good for a short stint, lots of guys like that in the leagues history. Few make the HOF.

 

Bingo.  For a little while he was absolutely great, but it was excessively short-lived, and surrounded by two holdouts, faking an injury, twice showing up completely out of shape, and having one of the most embarrassingly awful finishes to a career the moment he hit 30.

His greatest skill was managing to rake in as much cash as possible, which is good for him, but also means he had multiple instances of not living up to his pay, and that deservedly brought criticism along with it.  Meanwhile, he was busy being amazingly impressed with himself and never taking any responsibility for his own failures.

Besides, for those who claim that Revis was supposedly the only infallible of all CBs, he still somehow ended up becoming the personal bitch of Stevie friggin' Johnson for years.  Also, his lack of ability to generate turnovers being blamed by some as due to team's refusing to throw in his direction is a complete fallacy with no statistical support.  Revis actually received the level of praise that he did at his peak in part because of the high volume of passes that went his way (at the time, credited as by design of Rex's D).

[Rangers9]

He was never the same after his injury. Before it he was a great cover guy plus a ferocious hitter who could out tough bigger and stronger players. I remember one game against Brandon Marshall when he roughed him up, psyched him out and dominated him. He imo was the best player I saw in Jets history. His later years he lost it and as we saw with him played back and missed tackles. There was no love lost when he left the Jets. As for his money battles with the Jets. I had no problem with it. He was ripped by some fans for being greedy but basically all players are going to try and get their best contract. 

[T0mShane]

6 hours ago, Integrity28 said:

Revis isn’t in the discussion for best all-time corner. He’s have had to do it for more than 1-2 years. sh*t Namdi Asomuigh had 1-2 great seasons, then sucked. He’s not GOAT material. Revis was good for a short stint, lots of guys like that in the leagues history. Few make the HOF.

 

I think this is wrong. Young corners don’t compare themselves to Deion anymore, they compare themselves to Revis. He’s one of the standard-bearers at the position. 

[David Harris]

The best and most perfect Revis article ever

 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000940862/article/darrelle-revis-retires-goodbye-to-the-greatest-ny-jet

[David Harris]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000940862/article/darrelle-revis-retires-goodbye-to-the-greatest-ny-jet

 

Darrelle Revis retires: Goodbye to the greatest N.Y. Jet

Darrelle Revis retired on Wednesday. Five thoughts on one of the best to ever play the cornerback position.

1) Revis was the greatest Jet of all time. Yeah, yeah, I know. How dare I besmirch Broadway Joe! Trust me, I'm not doing that. I love that man. There's no question Joe Namath is the most important Jets player ever -- he put the franchise on the map and was the driving force behind Gang Green's lone (and lonely) Lombardi Trophy. Namath -- for better or worse -- remains the face of the Jets more than 40 years after he threw his last pass for them. But Revis is, pound-for-pound, the most complete, singularly dominant player to ever wear a Jets uniform. His apex -- which spanned from 2008 through 2011 -- was cornerback played at its highest level since Deion Sanders. In 2009 -- the season he should have walked away with Defensive Player of the Year honors, but didn't -- he posted the highest grade everby a cornerback since analytics site ProFootballFocus.com started tracking the position in 2006. Revis erased a murderer's row of All-Pros and future Hall of Famers that year:

» Andre Johnson, HOU: 7 targets, 4 catches, 35 yards
» Randy Moss, NE: 7 targets, 4 catches, 24 yards
» Steve Smith, CAR: 6 targets, 1 catch, 5 yards
» Terrell Owens, BUF: 8 targets, 3 catches, 13 yards
» Randy Moss, NE: 11 targets, 5 catches, 34 yards, 1 TD
» Terrell Owens, BUF: 9 targets, 3 catches, 31 yards
» Roddy White, ATL: 10 targets, 4 catches, 33 yards
» Reggie Wayne, IND: 7 targets, 3 catches, 33 yards
» Chad Johnson, CIN: 4 targets, 0 catches, 0 yards
» Chad Johnson, CIN: 6 targets, 2 catches, 28 yards
» Reggie Wayne, IND: 5 targets, 3 catches, 55 yards

The following season, Revis was targeted just 56 times all season as his reputation took hold. When the Jets knocked off Peyton Manning and the Colts in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs, Revis held Reggie Wayne, who had 111 catches that season, to one reception for a single yard. Manning didn't even look Wayne's way in the second half. After the win, a reporter asked Revis if he broke a sweat during the game.

"Only when I took a shower," he replied.

Said Wayne: "I shouldn't have even suited up."

Revis was the equalizer on the Rex Ryan Jets teams that reached the AFC title game in 2009 and 2010. Sometimes it feels like Jets fans can't have nice things; having Revis was like being the poor kid who one day shows up at school wearing gleaming new Jordans. Most football fans just assumed Jets fans stole him. He made a fringe playoff team with Mark Sanchez at quarterback a Super Bowlcontender and provided an entire fanbase with an adrenaline shot of swagger in the era of Brady and Belichick.

2) There should be no question about Revis' Hall of Fame credentials. Revis finished his career with 29 interceptions, a relatively modest total that would be the fewest ever for a player enshrined in Canton. But judging the Hall of Famemerits of Revis (or any corner) on his interception total would be like an ornery baseball fan insisting you have to be a .300 hitter to go to Cooperstown. In Revis' case, his total is not inflated for a simple reason: Quarterbacks were terrified to throw at him. Revis had excellent hands to go with his quickness, instincts and expert physicality; every pass thrown his way was a 50/50 ball at best.

Another qualm rests in the relative brevity of his career. As stated above, Revis was the most dominant defender in the game from 2008 through 2011. He was in rising-star territory as a first-round rookie in 2007. He was never quite the same player after he tore his ACL early in the 2012 campaign, but he did pick up a Super Bowl ring in the back half of his career (more on that in a bit).

With Revis, it's all about the transcendent nature of his greatness. Ryan once called him a "once-in-a-lifetime player." This is the territory inhabited by Jim Brown and Gale Sayers, two first-ballot Hall of Famers who didn't play a snap beyond age 30 (Sayers left the game due to injury, Brown to pursue an acting career). Revis, who played his final snap at age 32, deserves similar treatment by Hall voters.

3) Revis is already in the Nickname Hall of Fame. Has a moniker ever more neatly captured the brilliance of a player than Revis Island? Revis took half the football field out of play for the opposing offense, turning it into his own private resort. When Revis lost a step in later years, the Revis Island nickname could be easily weaponized for evil, but that's all in the game, as they say. At his best, Rex Ryan could take an opponent's top offensive chess piece in the passing game, hand him a fruity drink with an umbrella in it and say, "See ya in four hours, pal." A compulsory vacation from pro football relevancy.

4) Revis was a legendary competitor ... on the field and at the negotiation table. In his 11 years, Revis signed contracts worth a total value of $291 million. His actual cash earnings, according to Spotrac.com, total more than $124 million. He is the only defensive back to make more than $100 million. Revis' 2010 Jets holdout included a fruitless five-hour meeting at Roscoe's Diner in Roscoe, New York, that lives on in franchise lore. There is no better look into the high-stakes, high-pressure world of superstar-team negotiations than the Revis-Jets showdown documented that year on HBO's "Hard Knocks." Said Ryan when Revis finally re-entered the fold on the eve of Week 1: "It looks like they got some slap---- player they just picked up. He's coming in, too."

5) The back half of Revis' career was a roller coaster (and not always a good one). Revis tore his ACL in 2012, and the injury provided an unfortunate but clean dividing line to the two sides of his career. He squabbled with the Jets over his contract again after that season, and this time, the Jets didn't blink, pulling the trigger on a blockbuster trade to the Bucs. Revis lasted just one year in Tampa (a weird and forgettable stopover) before a one-year mercenary tenure with the Patriots that resulted in a Super Bowl title. (To extend an earlier analogy, being a Jetsfan watching Revis win a title with Bill Belichick was like being the poor kid who shows up with the Jordans, then runs into the evil star jock, who punches you in the stomach and steals your shoes.)

The Jets brought Revis back with a massive contract before the 2015 season, but it was a poor investment. Revis' play cratered by the second year of the deal, his effort level dropped off noticeably (this remains especially depressing, given the celebrated competitiveness of his earlier years), he was arrested for his role in a Pittsburgh street fight (the charges didn't stick) and the Jets ate $6 million to walk away from the partnership before the 2017 season. Revis latched on with the Chiefs late last season. This was Michael Jordan leaving the Wizards to sign a 10-day contract with the Jazz.

That won't be the version of Revis I'll remember, though. It will be the man at his peak, deflating the oversized egos of star wide receivers and playing one of the sport's most difficult positions at a near perfect level. Revis is gone, but Revis Island will live on in the National (Football League) Register of Historic Places.

[Jet Nut]

4 hours ago, Integrity28 said:

,Jetnut neg reps = validation of my points.

Says the person who neg rep me when I pointed out a duplicate thread a day or so ago.  Patrolling the board laying down rules for others.  

And yes anyone who claims Revis had 1 season and few like him make the HOF should stay off of a football board, out of the discussion, that's ridiculous as it gets.