Revis’ teammates are firmly in his corner. Every member of the secondary joined the dance, arms flailing, hips rocking, praying that the centerpiece of the league’s top defense from a year ago would magically materialize before the scrimmage.

“Everybody wanted to be involved,” Leonhard said. “We love him. We just got to let him know we’re thinking about him every once and while, so we paid a little homage to No. 24.”

Antonio Cromartie took it a step further by placing Revis’ jersey on the grass across from Braylon Edwards on the left side of the formation – Revis’ traditional spot – before the first play of seven-on-seven passing drills during warmups. Then, Cromartie sprinted to the right side before the snap.

“That’s his side,” Cromartie said of why he vacated the left side. “I went over to the right side for that one play. That was my tribute.”

– Manish Mehta, N.Y. Daily News.

Of course, the strangest part by far was that Revis’ empty jersey managed to shut down Edwards. Somehow its presence seemed to force him to bobble and drop everything that came his way.

Seriously though, you know you’re awesome when you inspire this sort of vague deification from a bunch of other professional athletes, presumably mostly egomaniacs. And given the season Revis had last year, I imagine his teammates had to be at least a little surprised that he didn’t magically materialize in the secondary when they summoned him. He’s like that.

Mike Tannenbaum must get so pissed when stuff like this makes the paper. He’s probably all, “IDIOTS! If you really want him to come back, shut the f@#$ up!”

But whatever. Thing is, Darrelle Revis is that good, he knows he’s that good, Tannenbaum knows he’s that good, and the Jets know he’s that good. It’ll get done, I’m certain.