Dungy, who retired as Indianapolis Colts coach after the 2008 season, said such behavior would cause him to disqualify Ryan from future jobs.

“It’s hard for me to be around that,” Dungy said on the Dan Patrick radio show. “If I were in charge, I wouldn’t hire somebody like that.

Dungy also said he thinks NFL commissioner Roger Goodell should speak with Ryan about his language. “I would hope that he does,” Dungy said.

– Sean Leahy, USA Today.

All due respect to a great football coach and all, but hey Tony Dungy — Rex Ryan’s got your lewd behavior right here, buddy:

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.

I caught the first episode of Hard Knocks on HBO last night. I had never seen the show before so I didn’t know what to expect.

It was pretty cool. Mostly it made me miss playing and coaching football, thanks to all the dramatized slow-motion footage of the Jets’ drills and everything. Football camp was actually damn near torturous, but the show glorified it thoroughly enough to color my memories.

I am skeptical about whether the players, coaches and executives really behave on camera the same way they would off camera. In fact, I am almost certain they don’t. I have no doubt that Rex Ryan is both literally and figuratively larger than life when the cameras aren’t rolling, but no one acts the same when they know it’s being documented and broadcast. Reality TV is anything but. This is Rex Ryan’s best Rex Ryan performance, and he does a pretty good job of it.

Mike Tannenbaum, on the other hand, is brutal to watch. First off, I had no idea the dude was so emo. The whole conversation he had with Woody Johnson about how Darrelle Revis’ agent was also a human being who went home to his wife? Ugh. Plus the scene had the dramatic timing of continental drift. Show me football, please.

When Hard Knocks did that, it was sweet. The NFL Films-style footage looked great in HD and the sound was incredible — it’s awesome to hear the uncensored antics of players in games and on sidelines.

Predictably, the show dramatized the Revis thing and a couple of rookies getting cut — a part rendered even sadder because you knew these poor kids had to suffer an awful life moment on camera.

Most of the real, relevant football insight that could be gleaned from the show focused on rookie fullback John Conner. Turns out Tannenbaum gives Ryan one draft pick that’s all his, and Conner was Ryan’s choice this year. Ryan said he was watching film of linebackers when he spotted Conner leveling dudes for Kentucky and fell for him. Apparently Conner looks impressive early in camp and even knocked Calvin Pace around a bit.

Also, and most importantly, his name is John Conner and he is nicknamed “The Terminator” (even though, of course, John Connor was not the Terminator. Calling a fullback “Edward Furlong” would probably be a whole lot less intimidating).

Anyway, probably worth checking out the show. Made me really psyched for football season, especially since it immediately followed that brutal, brutal Mets game.

Darrelle Revis is officially a problem in need of a solution. He wants to be paid as if he’s the best cornerback in football. That’s not unreasonable. The Jets say he has three years left on his current deal, which he held out for in 2007. That is also a reasonable position. But let’s look at that 2007 contract and see if there is an answer to this stalemate.

Because of his signing bonus in 2007, Revis is set to earn just $1 million this year. No matter what that his bonuses were ($4.75 million signing, $2.2 million roster in 2008 and $5.7 million roster in 2009), that number is ridiculous. It was clear when the deal was signed that 2010 was going to be a holdout year if Revis ended up being great. Both sides tried to avert this by giving Revis the ability to become a free agent at easy-to-meet playing time levels and then allowing the Jets the ability to buy back years five ($5 million) and six ($15 million). But this fourth year was always no-man’s land.

– Michael Salfino, SNY.tv.

Salfino investigates Darrelle Revis’ holdout and offers a pretty interesting solution.

I have no idea how agent-GM negotiations work. I do know that Revis’ is a special case for a number of reasons: This is an uncapped year, he’s several years away from free agency, and he’s probably the best defensive player in football.

The last one there is the only thing I’m certain of. Revis was unbelievable last year — unbelievable like actually difficult to believe. And he’s 25.

The Jets added depth in their secondary this offseason, but Revis’ ability to shut down the opponents’ top receiver in single coverage is a huge key to Gang Green’s defense. All Super Bowl guarantees and blustering must cease if Revis doesn’t play.

I can’t imagine Rex Ryan is doing much for the Jets’ negotiating position by constantly reminding everyone how good Revis is, but then — as Tom Boorstein pointed out today — that’s probably why Ryan’s players like him so much.

I hate to sound like a WFAN guy because I know there’s always a lot more to it, but the Jets have to sign Revis. Have to. I’m sure they will eventually so I’m really not that concerned about it, but imagine what a shame it would be for the football-watching world to miss out on the wonder of watching Revis for an entire season.