you are claiming the guy does not know what the h*ll he is talking about, and then you go and do exactly what you say he does. you might want to check samuel's injury history, because you were wrong on that account. also if i remember correctly, samuel played a lot his rookie year. even started a half dozen games toward the end of his first season. he showed talent from the start, from what i remember reading about him.. the difference between revis and samuel is yet to be proved because samuel had shown steady improvement with every season he played. one thing that revis has yet to prove due to just starting out. to put revis in samuel's league right now is nothing but homerism. jets fans can only hope revis ends up as good as samuel. he has a long to to go to prove that in my book!!!!!!!!!!
Of course we dont know what Revis is going to ultimately end up like...its his rookie season, and he plays for a much worse defense then the 2003 Patriots. Interpret that as you may, I think you can draw the right conclusions from this..... So far, Revis has 2 INTs, and more tackles then Samuel in his rookie campaign..Revis has been covering #1 WR's pretty much all season. Samuel was not. Revis also is playing with arguably the worst D-Line in quite some time for the Jets...Samuel was playing with a great line, and in case you didnt know, a great D-line can often inflate or deflate the actual perceived performance of the secondary...again, in case you didnt know. Im not going to say Revis is better then Samuel already. He's not, but so far hes on the right path...
I was wrong, Samuel didn't miss time because of injuries, he was sitting behind Ty Law and Tyrone Poole and had one start in his rookie season. Not half a dozen. And if you can read any better than tbruner, you can go back and read what you quoted where I am comparing them at this stage of Revis' career, not this stage in Samuel's. And I was quite correct when I stated that Revis' contributions to the team are more than Samuel's at this stage in his career. If you don't believe that then dig something up to prove me wrong.
Totally agree with everything you just said. I don't know what type of mentality it takes to just assume that because you spent the #4 overall on a player that he is performing at the level of a player you would WANT to spend that draft pick on. I know now that D-Rob hasn't lived up to the trade-up we used to acquire him, and almost certainly won't, and if Brick does not pull things together on his side very soon, then I'm probably going to be on that page with him as well, but I will give him the allotted amount of time I decided on when he was drafted. I will say that it doesn't look to me like he's going to ever be a well-rounded tackle. As far as Revis goes, I love the physical ability and instincts he has shown to us immediately, having missed a good majority of camp time in his first professional season, having been a starter from day 1. If you'll look at a post that Br4dw4y5ux made in the Clemens is Next thread, he makes a great point about young players rising to the level of competition at the pro level when their number is called... the first pro player this kid ever covered is having a Hall of Fame season for one of our division rivals - and not only was he not dismantled as I had expected him to be, the ball wasn't even thrown his way that much - if that isn't raising your game in the face of pressure, nothing is. I am optimistic to say the least about how good this kid could be if he learns well to analyze opposing wideouts and quarterbacks and learn their tendencies. Then again, I am aware of how many players in this league have shown immediate promise, only to disappoint once other teams break down his game. So I am approaching Revis, as any player anymore, with cautious optimisim.
