Sports writers aren’t exactly the cream of the journalistic crop. It should come as no surprise when their votes (or words for that matter) show them to be be lazy and shallow in their perceptions. What I hope for as Jets fan, as a fan of Darelle Revis is that this post season joy ride lasts a little longer. Let the celebrity field of Woodsons and Ray-Rays, Peytons and Favres thin out and have the national spotlight shine on what is turning out to be a pretty special player. If this Jets are able to knock off the Bolts and if they make noise in the AFC championship game, it’ll be thanks in part to his play.
  It does shock me when Tim Graham, a guy who spends most of his time at 1 Orchard Dr, but supposedly cover the Jets as well as the rest of the AFC East, makes the case for Woodson as some linebacker/corner-back hybrid superman (as a side note, James Harrison only had one INT last year, what an incredibly one-dimensional and undeserving DPOY!). He didn’t have a vote, but if a guy who was supposed to watch and chronicle Revis all season can’t see past some pretty superficial stats, then what can you expect from the national media.

haha i feel sorry for u revis fans thats wat u get haha revis sucks woodson all the way haha

I guess it’s official, DPOY means “best” statistics and not most valuable. On the bottom line it said “Woodson wins DPOY, tied in lead with 9 int’s”. Really???? he won because he had 9 int’s, I guess Sharper should of won as well.

Again this is why I think MVP awards are ridicoulous, well at least the people who vote for them are

I agree that Revis was deserving of the defensive MVP award this season.

If I were to play devil’s advocate, I would have to say many fans (myself included) are more aware of Revis’ accomplishments because of how they impacted the fantasy game.

Woodson had an excellent season as well. They both deserve accolades.

Based upon what little I’ve read, I believe that the wideouts Revis covered totaled less than 1000 yards, in fact, probably more like 850 or so.

Considering that the NFL has had 10 4000-yard passing QBs and 11 1000-yard wideouts, that is no small potatoes.

By the way, is it just me, or is his jersey number both a multiple of Joe Namath’s and a mirror image of Ronnie Lott’s?

Points. Games are won on points. Woodson is the leader of GB’s pass defense. Revis is the leader of the Jets pass defense. GB’s D gave up 29 passing TD’s. Jets gave up 8 passing TD’s. There is no way the leader of the passing D should win DPOY when they give up 29 TD’s through the air, over a guy who leads the passing D on a team that gave up 8.

By the way… The Jets offense and Special Teams gave up 7 TD’s, so if your an OC going into a game against the jets, you have an equal chance of scoring without your offense on the field as you do throwing the ball.

I love the Jets, always have and always will…

But to say that Woodson didn’t deserve player of the year, you are obviously on something. Woodson WAS MOST DEFINTELY the Most Valuable Player. He was everywhere! He is versatile! The only way Larry Fitz did anything on him was by Offensive Pass Interference, did you guys not watch that game? When you have a corner like C. Wood, QB’s just don’t throw towards him, why…because he is going to strip the ball or cut the route and intercept it.

Was Revis deserving of some recognition, of course, he had a great season!

But let’s not kid ourselves just because we are Jets fans.

…I know you list Antonio Gates as the Chargers’ most dangerous receiving threat, but what about Vincent Jackson?

He helps stretch the field for Philip Rivers and isn’t exactly pint-sized. And there are those who make a case that he should have made the Pro Bowl.

Just a thought, there.

Woodson got most of his stats against Tampa (Twice) Chicago (twice), St. Louis, Detroit (twice), Cleveland & Arizona without Warner. He got two interceptions against Detroit, Two against Cincinnati, one against Chicago, Dallas, Cleveland, and Arizona (not Warner). He only got one against an elite quaterback if you want to call Romo one.

20 more tackles, 4 forced fumbles to Revis’ none, 2 sacks to Revis’ none, 9 interceptions to Revis’ 6.

Shutdown corners don’t win yearly awards. They have relatively nothing to show for stats.

From the Prophet of The Forbidden City: Denied once, Revis will come home with The Big Rock!

Way to break it down John B.

I love the defenders of Woodson in their attempt to puff up his strip of Fitz last weekend. Conveniently failing to mention the TDs he relented in a game they lost in OT. If Revis plays that game Fitz has 3 catches for 36 yrds and no TDs. Packers pull off one of the greatest come-backs in post season history.

Wouldn’t it make sense to drop Revis into zone coverage for this game. It might even upend whatever the chargers were preparing for. just a thought.

… “SBNation.com called Woodson a deserving winner.”

The SBNation.com article that you linked to actually says that while Woodson is probably deserving, Revis was more deserving and the better player. A quote: “Which is to say, on the strength of his regular season, Revis should have won. In this case, the perception from last week’s games was actually justified. No, this wasn’t a BBWA-level mistake, but Jets fans have good reason to feel that the better cornerback did not win today.”

As we seen last week Woodson can not handle big recevers. I saw T.O. destroy him one year when he was with the Raiders. This award was about stats, not who was the best defensive player!!

Revis has left the building.

you guys keep talking about the elite receivers he covered all season but i noticed something when i looked back at those games….

they were 5-5 in games where revis shut down an elite wr you guys have mentioned. i did not count the playoff game because this is a regular season award and i didnt count the colts game because the colts pulled their starters with a lead. before you cry though i gave you credit for a win in the season finale against cincy because you were blowing them out long before they pulled their starters.

so you beat NE, CAR, HOU, BUF, CIN and you lost to NE, BUF, NO, JACK, ATL

also in games where their wasnt an elite WR to cover what was revis doing? i point to the games against miami where the jets gave up more than 30 points twice. also in both NE games he shut down moss and it gave the jets the ability to roll coverage and cover who? first game a rookie playing in his 2nd game as a reciever ever had 98 yards and in the 2nd game wes welker put up 192 yards. sounds to me like you had the wrong guy floating on revis island.

revis had a great year congrats to him and the jets

Thanks for pointing out the stat differences which completely favor Woodson. In addition to that, Revis plays ONE position. Revis only plays corner and alot of the time is sitting in a zone. By the way, Woodson plays every position in the secondary(corner, nickel, safety and some linebacker) and yet he makes plays at every position. By the way, does Revis make the defensive calls as well? Didn’t think so. Also, where are all the good receivers? They are certainly not in the AFC.

Let’s see how the Jets do next year once teams have had time to figure out the gimick defense. Looking forward to Manning putting up 4-5 tds on them on Sunday. I would hope you could win 9 games in a joke of a division.

It’s ok, Woodson won the award and he deserved it. You can argue about how Woodson won because of his stats, but the stats he led in were MUCH more impacting than the ones Revis played in. And saying Woodson playing all over the field didnt matter? It DOES show flexibilty, something Revis clearly didn’t have or wasn’t good enough at to be given a chance. Stop being lawry’s and get over it. You don’t want to be bitter over your loss to the Colts in addition to this.