One day after taking the offensive, Darrelle Revis was back to playing defense.
The unhappy Jets cornerback told ESPN.com he would meet with coach Rex Ryan to keep his public contract squabble from getting worse. He also backed off the idea that he faked being light-headed to send a message.
“This is the beginning of stuff turning bad,” Revis said after a practice Tuesday. “I’ll talk to Rex today and we’ll try to see eye to eye and try to do it the right way. [Monday] was a little frustration going back and forth, but he wants to keep things positive.”
Revis sat out plays in protest Monday, a detail Ryan did not know, instead believing his star player was truly feeling light-headed as he claimed.
“It might just be that this is a thing he wanted to do, and that’s fine, but he knows that’s not right,” Ryan said today, according to NJ.com.
Despite pushing his agenda publicly, Revis said, “I want to be a Jet forever.”
“I don’t want to get cut, get released or get traded,” he said. “One of my goals is to stay on one team.”
Revis told The Associated Press he actually was light-headed when he sat out a few plays during practice Monday.
“I didn’t eat anything that morning, for real,” Revis said Tuesday. “I came in here and went straight to meetings and didn’t eat anything. I drank Gatorade, but I didn’t eat anything, so I was like, ’I feel funny.’ “
Defensive backs coach Dennis Thurman told him to take a break, and Revis went to the sideline. After practice, Revis was told he needed to get his blood checked and he told trainers he had to get something to eat.
He then told reporters he sat because his head had bothered him and “a hamstring pull, too.”
“The hamstring,” Revis said, “I kind of exaggerated that and went on with it.”
Revis, who said he spoke from the heart Monday, added that it all wasn’t for show.
“If I really wanted to make a statement,” he said Tuesday, “I would’ve just not practiced.”
With AP