Darrelle Revis, Antonio Cromartie feud explained: Ex-Jets players engage in war of words in now-deleted tweets
Darrelle Revis and Antonio Cromartie fighting each other is a sentence that doesn't make a lot of sense.
When the New York Jets last made the playoffs, back in the 2010 season, Revis and Cromartie were teammates. That team made the AFC Championship for two straight years and was a nuisance to the New England Patriots, then led by Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.
But it seems that, after many years, two of the stars who were part of that team decided to beef over some of those games, from assignments to even the fact that Darrelle Revis made the Hall of Fame and Antonio Cromartie did not, citing reasons such as jealousy in their discussion.
The tweets are now deleted, but uSTADIUM was able to get screenshots before they were gone.
Revis was later traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and won a ring with the New England Patriots before later returning to the Jets to close his career. They were teammates again in 2015, as Cromartie had stints with the Arizona Cardinals and the Indianapolis Colts later before becoming a Jet again.
Is Antonio Cromartie correct about Darrelle Revis' induction into the Hall of Fame?
Revis was nearly unbeatable in his prime. He made three straight First-Team All-Pro appearances from 2009 to 2011; A fourth came in 2014, when he was a champion with the New England Patriots.
His accolades speak for themselves. Apart from the four All-Pro nods, he was voted to the Pro Bowl seven times, is a member of the New York Jets Ring of Honor and made the 2010s All-Decade Team.
Cromartie has a point about Revis' prime being "reduced" when compared to regular elite standards, but anyone who watched him at his prime knows that Revis Island was a real thing. No wide receiver had a real chance at a 1-v-1 against the cornerback.
Yes, playing in New York certainly helped the media drive his Hall of Fame campaign a bit. But the Hall of Fame has a purpose of recognizing the game's greats, and on this premise, to say that Darrelle Revis isn't worthy of a HOF spot is certainly a bad opinion.