I thought this was a pretty good debate. Despite my profile picture, I'm not a troll but do appreciate the rivalry and the fun that comes with it. I randomly read this site to see rival fans opinions and there are a lot of good posters here like Deus, Kontradiction, Rob, etc.
Even though I am a Jets fan and will probably be viewed as being bias, Kontradiction was pretty much on point with everything he said. Asomugha always plays RCB. It is well documented that he stays to one side and only one side of the field, no matter where the best WR is. The biggest difference between Revis and Aso is Revis is always put in a position to challenge whoever is the best on the field while Aso sticks to generally the right side of the field, generally where the #2 WR resides. Why throw at Aso against your #2 when you can throw to your best WR against a far less capable CB? Not saying that is always the case, but I believe someone posted the stats of both top WRs Revis and Aso faced. To put it mildly, the WRs Aso faced put up some pretty sexy numbers. Am I saying Aso got abused? Obviously not because he was thrown at only 28 times so he didn't give up a majority of those catches. But 21 of those passes were completed and what good is being a top 2 CB in the NFL if your not preventing WRs from putting up monster numbers? They say you know a CB is having a good day if the announcer doesn't mention his name often. True but as an example, if I'm Aso and Santonio Holmes has 8 catches for 149 yards 1 TD, me as a competitor, I would want a crack at him.
Sure Aso is awesome and definitely is the 2nd best CB in the NFL. I post on TGG and I stated as much. One thing we know for a fact is Revis DID shut down his competition. Another fact that we do know is Asomugha has faced some pretty pathetic competition based on being limited either by the scheme or being complacent and not asking to shut down opposing elite WRs head on. The unanswered question is, can anyone here honestly guarantee he would of gotten the same or better results as Revis did? No. Not because it can't be done, but because Asomugha has never faced such a challenge and it is more of an unknown then anything. That's too bad because I feel like the Raiders are wasting a great player.
The reason why Revis has been thrown at so much this year is because of 2 reasons. 1 because he is covering the opposing teams best WR almost exclusively and a QB will naturally throw to their best WR. And 2 because our defense is built to funnel all passes to Revis' way. Our safeties do play 2 deep zone from time to time but they cheat and overload the coverage towards the opposite side of the field Revis is covering, hoping the QB throws to our best player. We WANT Revis to be thrown at whereas Aso on his defense is the best CB on his team with no scheming built around his ability. That is sad based on the level of talent he has but at the same time, like him or not, you have to give Rex credit for building his D around Revis and taking full advantage of his skill set.
On Revis' tackling, he has missed 5 tackles on over 1,000 defensive snaps according to profootballfocus. CBs that I'd say are physical, sure tacklers would be Antoine Winfield, Quentin Jammer, and Charles Woodson just to name a few. Revis missed 5 tackles on 47 solo tackles(MT 10.6%), Winfield missed 4 tackles on 48 solo tackles(MT 8.3%), Jammer missed 7 on 48 solo tackles(MT 14.5%), and Woodson missed 8 on 69 solo tackles(MT 11.5%). Antoine Winfield is probably the best tackling CB in the NFL but only missed one less tackle on similar solo tackle attempts while Woodson and Jammer missed a slightly higher %. Revis is awesome in run support, I have seen him take down Brandon Jacobs in the open field by himself. As I'm sure you all know Jacobs is a problem for a LB to take down by himself, let alone a CB. Not saying he laid him out but he is very strong(See Revis youtube video of tossing TO like a rag doll) and he took him out by his legs which showed textbook technique on his tackling form along with his smarts. Just for ****s and giggles, Asomugha missed 8 tackles on 31 solo attempts(MT 25.8%).
What is another, if not the most important, difference between the 2? Revis is VERY clutch and his big plays lead us to victories while Aso's play, fair or not, doesn't impact the outcome of many games. In his first postseason, Revis was absolutely incredible with shutting down whoever he faced and also finishing with 2 picks and countless deflections. Some may think Manning or Rivers weren't purposely avoiding Revis. Manning Had ZERO intentions of attacking Revis after he saw Revis was stuck on Waynes hip like glue. Do you think it was a coincidence that Revis was all the field covering whoever in against the Chargers and only got throw at 3 times? I think not. To me that's a big statement since Rivers is a man who openly admitted to going after Champ bailey, ending with mixed results. Obviously the Raiders are horrendous but Aso had a choice and could of gotten big money elsewhere. Instead he wanted to stay with the losing Raider organization over going to a winner. If you guys sucked ass does anyone here think a winner like Tom Brady would stay with the Patriots? I doubt it.
Debate all you want about who's better in coverage, who can tackle better, whos GF is hotter, but I'll take the guy who I know for a FACT will play his best on the most important plays, in the most important games anyday of the week over someone who is complacent, clearly by his actions of not demanding to cover the best WRs and staying with the Raiders organization, and who MIGHT be just as good or better. Give me the sure thing any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
It was mentioned that Deion thinks hes going to be the best CB for years, heres an opinion from another HOF CB breaking down Darrelle's game, Rod Woodson.
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