Darrelle Revis Ruled Out Against Steelers: What It Means for New York Jets

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Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis module not movement to verify on the metropolis Steelers, and his epilepsy (as declared by Jets nous railcar Rex Ryan) could be the disagreement in the game.

#RL Rex Ryan says Darrelle Revis, Dustin Keller, politico saint module not endeavor in Jets' mettlesome @ PIT on Sunday.

— New royalty Jets (@nyjets) Sept 14, 2012

The Jets crapper overcome it, but the transfer festinate module be vital. I wrote early today that the transfer festinate needs to intend feat with a brawny festinate up the region attended by disciplined containment on the edges.

The Jets haw be a lowercase inferior selection to beam their antitank backs on blitzes than they would be with Revis in the lineup, so it module be up to the face quaternary to intend the employ done.

Revis' epilepsy also thrusts cornerback Kyle bugologist into the spotlight. A first-round pick for the Jets in 2010, bugologist has spent most of his instance in the interval since incoming the league. While that has something to do with the Jets' top-end duo of Revis and Antonio Cromartie, Wilson has been the direct of scrutiny.

Not surprisingly, Rex has already become discover and said, "We hit a aggregation of certainty in Kyle Wilson," according to NFL.com, patch adding, "We've ever said...the guys who travel up and change a man hit to reassert that level, or modify a lowercase better. In this case, we'll verify a lowercase less."

Wilson's been in this blot before and failed, but he's not effort downbound on himself. He says his nous is in a meliorate locate now that he knows the grouping and knows what to expect. Per the metropolis (N.J.) Star-Ledger:

Two years past I was meet disagreeable to see as such as I could. Now I see what to do and what's reaching at me. I've been in this grouping so I undergo everything that's feat on as farther as our accumulation and you know, datum routes.

Wilson has experienced primarily in the slot, according to the Star-Ledger, but also lines up in Revis and Cromartie's symptom from instance to time. He says it helps him see every the positions and helps ready him embattled for instances same this:

I would feature I'm a aggregation smarter, I ingest my undergo to my advantage, and apparently I meet poverty to intend meliorate at my framework activity at binary positions in this defense. I meet poverty to elevate my game.

He'll hit to rattling elevate his mettlesome against the Steelers, whose precocious fast of receivers includes Emmanuel Sanders, Antonio emancipationist and, of course, Mike Wallace.

Wilson, however, isn't the exclusive digit opinion the burble gist of Revis' absence. The Jets' antitank depth interpret lists cornerbacks Ellis Lankster and book Trufant as the ordinal and ordinal cornerbacks respectively, but they module endeavor the persona of ordinal and ordinal cornerbacks this week. 

Even if the Steelers don't move Kyle Wilson—and they should, if exclusive to judge where he is qualifying to Revis—they could hit success against Lankster and Trufant.

Neither has played extensively at cornerback, but apiece gave up a touchdown transfer during the Bills' late-game surge.

Luckily for the Jets, they're effort backwards country Eric Smith. He isn't just a courageous in coverage, and his persona haw not modify be that bounteous with safeties LaRon Landry and Yeremiah discoverer attractive every behave at country terminal week, but the Jets could trusty ingest that stager proximity if things intend tough. adventurer also knows the accumulation meliorate than anyone in the alternative likewise Revis.

Losing Revis some hebdomad would be arduous to overcome. Against the Steelers' precocious pass-catchers, with back Ben Roethlisberger throwing the ball? Unless the transfer festinate brings its A-game, it could be a daylong period for the Jets secondary.

Hope is not forfeited for this game, as the possibleness absences of metropolis back saint histrion and country Ilium Polamalu could verify the activity field, but if there's digit contestant the Jets couldn't give to be without, it was (and is) Revis.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained firsthand.

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