Don Maynard may have picked up a thing or two about trash talking from Rex Ryan.
After hearing the current Jets head coach call Darrrelle Revis the greatest player in team history, the wide receiver told ESPN.com that he and Joe Namath would have done just fine, thanks, against the cornerback.
“Oh, yeah,” Maynard said. “It doesn’t matter if it was him or anyone else. I had a guy named Namath throwing me the ball. If he goes left, I go right. If he goes right, I go left — the ball would be there. And I’ve never been caught from behind. That’s why my book is called, ‘You Can’t Catch Sunshine.’ (Revis) is like Deion Sanders. I would’ve loved to have played against those guys.”
Well that’s random.
Maybe if Don Maynard came up in the same generation as Revis, with access to all the same training methods and everything, this might be worth debating. But if you’re talking about picking up the Don Maynard that led the NFL in receiving yards in 1967, putting him in a time machine, suiting him up and getting him on the field to square off with Revis today, c’mon. No way.
Granted, I never saw Maynard play. I’m just going to go ahead and assume. Revis is almost unspeakably awesome, even for a modern NFL player.
Can’t blame Maynard for jawing though. Turns out Hall of Famers develop some pretty healthy egos.
Tedquarters 