Darrelle Revis stuff

“We’d all feel better if he did practice,” Ryan said. “Let’s see how he’s moving around. It could be that we think he looks great and we fly to Denver and all of a sudden, he’s not great.”

Revis was amenable to taking the cautious approach that would give him an additional 15 or so days to rehab and rest before the Packers game. However, he’s fully aware of the fickle nature of hamstring injuries. “I can rest this game and rest the bye and come back and it’s still the same situation,” Revis said.

Revis hasn’t lost sight of the big picture.

“It’s a long season,” Revis said. “We don’t want to re-injure it.”

Manish Mehta, N.Y. Daily News.

Little bit of strangeness coming out of Jets camp about Revis and his injury. Maybe I’m paranoid because I’m a Mets fan grown accustomed to the miscommunication and mishandling of injuries, but it kind of sounds from this and a couple other articles like Revis doesn’t feel up to playing on Sunday and Rex Ryan is trying to push him toward it.

But then earlier in the article, Ryan admits he put too much trust in Revis to diagnose himself before Monday night’s contest and that, as a competitor, Revis will always want to be out there.

Obviously I’m not a doctor so I’ll resist speculation. It seems like playing it safe is the best option, even if passing the ball is pretty much the only thing the Broncos do well.

But then the counter to that is to argue that Revis needs reps to get up to speed, and so should push through the injury if it’s not going to get any worse since that’s what he needs to do to return to playing like Darrelle Revis.

Because the big issue is that Revis got tossed around and beat badly by the likes of Percy Harvin on Monday night, and the Jets’ secondary — presumed to be a strength heading into the season — appears like it could be the club’s Achilles heel if Revis can’t get right.

I’d err on the side of caution. Brian Bassett agrees. Obviously every game is important in a 16-game schedule, but resting Revis now betters the chances he’ll be full strength and again dominant during the playoffs, plus provides the added benefit of more reps to Kyle Wilson, who could use some getting up to speed himself.

Probably the best thing that’s ever happened

The Vikings and Brett Favre stage their own reenactment of the Simpsons’ epic “Man Getting Hit By Football.

I don’t know what part of this is making me laugh the hardest: plain-old football in the groin, which is plenty funny on its own; the fact that it’s a football to Brett Favre’s much-discussed groin at this particular moment in history; or imagining the way my mom is going to crack up when she sees this.

As a great man once said, it works on so many levels.

Hat tip to James K and Pavan for the video, which makes life worth living.

Oh right, Jets game

I guess you can probably tell I’m happy about the outcome of last night’s Jets game. There’s not much to say, I think, except that the Jets probably should have won by a lot more — it was a bit frustrating that the Vikings held them to field goals on so many drives.

Mark Sanchez, for all his handsomeness and Taco Bell appreciation, did not play his best game. It seemed like he was having some understandable trouble with the wet ball at points, and it was a little baffling why Brian Schottenheimer kept calling pass plays down near the goal line in the torrential downpour.

Still, Sanchez didn’t turn the ball over, which is way, way better than Brett Favre could say. And Favre’s epically Favrey interception couldn’t have come at a more perfect time, obviously. Thrilling. Just awesome.

Antonio Cromartie played an amazing game, mostly quieting Randy Moss and helping Jets fans ignore how shaky Darrelle Revis looked at the other corner. Revis said afterward that his hamstring is still sore, which comes as no surprise.

Favre and the Vikings made a game of it late with the big flukish bomb to Moss and a couple of nice drives, but the Jets so effectively stopped Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota running game that they forced Favre to throw the ball, and when Favre has to throw he’ll inevitably just start chucking it. So that happened, so the interception happened, then Dwight Lowery returned it for a touchdown for good measure and to cover the spread, much appreciated.

The Jets head to Denver on Sunday with the opportunity to pick up their fifth straight win entering their bye week. But the Broncos, quietly, and with Kyle Orton of all people at the helm, have established a high-flying passing attack that will test the Jets’ secondary, especially if Revis is out or otherwise playing at sub-Revisian levels. They can’t really run the ball at all, which should help.

Stories/things I have no interest in going anywhere near: Brett Favre’s junk

So sounds like Deadspin is going to produce some naked photos of Brett Favre tomorrow, which should at least clear up once and for all if he’s just like a little kid out there.

I reserve the right to continue making stupid and/or tasteless jokes about the matter, but the only embarrassing picture of Brett Favre I’m really interested in seeing is the reaction shot after his fourth interception on Monday night.

Not a lot of big breaking news here. Professional athletes (and many other people) cheat on their significant others? Shocker. Brett Favre’s a big, fat liar and a manipulator of media types? Nothing new there, either. Even Brett Favre’s passes at women get intercepted? Hey-oh.