Jets’ Revis Slowed By ‘Tight’ Hamstring

Added on Sep 16, 2010 by Jason Kearney in

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Darrelle Revis missed the preseason due to a contract holdout, and on Thursday he left the New York Jets’ practice early with what is being described as ‘hamstring tightness’. He downplayed the significance of the situation, saying that he plans to practice on Friday and there is ‘no chance’ he’ll miss Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots and his nemesis Randy Moss. Despite these assurances, Revis is listed as ‘questionable’ on the official NFL injury report.

Revis admitted that his holdout may have been responsible for the hamstring issue:

“It could be a training camp thing because I wasn’t there. I was working out — I wasn’t sitting down and being a couch potato — but my teammates had a month of organized football, one-a-days and two-a-days of hard football. I’m still trying to get my football legs under me.”

In the Jets’ season opening loss to the Baltimore Ravens, Revis played but in a diminished zone coverage role. Usually he’s put on the opposing team’s best receiver—and that’s the working plan for Sunday’s game against the Patriots where Revis and New England WR Randy Moss have been engaging in a media feud. Revis held Moss to 9 catches for 54 yards and a touchdown in two games last season. Since then, he’s been jabbing at Moss through the media calling him—among other things—a ‘slouch’.

Moss responded earlier this week:

“Words don’t really hurt me. I guess he’s entitled to say what he wants to say. Then again, we’re coming to the Meadowlands on Sunday, man, so you got 60 minutes of this ‘slouch.’ I don’t really get into the trash talking, but if what he called me was a ‘slouch,’ then I guess the ‘slouch’ will be there to see you on Sunday.”

“There was a lot of talk last year — and I’m not taking anything from him, he did some good things to be the shutdown corner that he is — I’m not here to say that I prided my offseason on Revis. But like I said, I take pride in what I do. What he did last year, was something that, he opened my eyes up as a wide receiver. That there’s a cornerback out here where I have to be on my A-game. I prided my offseason on staying off Revis Island.”

Currently, Jets’ coach Rex Ryan isn’t concerned about Revis’ hamstring issue and is planning to use him in single coverage on Moss. Ryan has said in the past that Moss is the best deep ball threat in the NFL and Revis is in his estimation the only cornerback in the league that can handle him in single coverage. Ryan did say that if Revis wasn’t 100% on Sunday they’d go to a ‘plan B’ for dealing with Moss.