10-01-2007, 11:08 PM
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 Welcome To the NFL Darrelle Revis
Welcome To the NFL Darrelle Revis Source: Josh Alper, NFL Fanhouse Quote:
Two rookies made strong impressions in Buffalo yesterday. Trent Edwards was excellent in leading the Bills to their first win of the season and he's earned rave reviews. The focus on Edwards allowed the other rookie to avoid the brunt of the spotlight but Darrelle Revis' poor game had a lot to do with Edwards' great one.
Edwards picked on his fellow rookie all day. He threw at Revis 11 times, completing nine passes for 83 yards and drawing an illegal contact penalty. Most of the plays came with Revis isolated on slot receivers Josh Reed and Roscoe Parrish. Edwards kept finding those two receivers for first downs, moving the chains and moving the Bills on two long second half scoring drives. After the game Revis sounded a bit shellshocked by what he'd been through.
"Well, I just keep on playing," he said. "I was in the slot a couple times, and it's basically something that they seen and adjusted to it, and they made plays out of it. It's just (that) they made good plays. They threw the ball in there, in the slot . . . it's crazy in there, and it's something they seen. They seen matchups and they made plays."
There was a silver lining for Revis and the Jets, however. When the Bills looked for Reed on third down just after the two-minute warning Revis made a terrific play and broke up the pass. That gave them the ball back to make one last attempt at winning or tying the game. It fell short but Revis' play showed that yesterday's abuse may be tomorrow's game-changing defensive play.
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