Revis thinks he ***** gold. I think trading him would be worth a 1st and a 3rd round pick, but even if you did get a trade, he still would want a ridiculous amount of money and he's not worth $16M a year. Plus he's shown he's a egomaniac.
I'm of the philosophy, stop the ball before it can be thrown or rattle the passer with a hellacious pass rush. So gimme a guys who can collapse the pocket over a top end DB who covers only 1 guy or one part of the field a down. What happens if the opposing team has tons of weapons. So Revis shuts down one of them, what about the other 2 or 3 guys out running routes. Nope, gimme a Reggie White guy who can destroy the pocket and force the QB to make fast/bad decision anyday and get sacks. It also forces the opposing offense to go into max protect so less guys out running routes down field.
Yup, and that's precisely what I think is going to happen this season and why I think we'll be fine.
We're gonna have Clay Matthews starting opposite Cullen Jenkins. Last year opposing offenses could simply load up one side of the ball to stop or slow both of them down. This year they'll have to guess again.
Also opposite Clay Matthews will be Brad Jones, who made several very good plays last season despite being only a 7th round draft pick and playing for half a season. Seriously the kid has potential. A second year in Caper's system as the starter should be a mass improvement.
Mike Neal has been a beast all preseason, getting double and triple teamed and
still managing to get pressure on the QB. There's only 5 guys on that line, so if two are used for him, you put three to cover Jenkins, Raji and Pickett. Jenkins usually requires a double team by himself, so now you have a mis-match problem.
So they'll pop in a RB or a TE or some combination thereof to try and pick up Matthews, Jones, Raji or Pickett. Again, you'll have a mis-match problem, and while offenses will certainly get some plays off, it's not going to be very comfortable for them.
And that's exactly what we want.
