Speaking to Cincinnati reporters, Bengals wide receiver Terrrell Owens ripped Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis as overrated and a one-year wonder.

“No disrespect, [Revis] has only done one thing for one year.” Owens said. “You talk about shutdown corners, you need to repeatedly do it, year in and year out, I think he did it one year, and everybody made a lot of hoopla about it. I think, you know, he started feeling himself, then he wanted to come out and say that I’m a slouch”.

Owens was referring to Revis’s use of the word “slouch” to describe both Owens and Randy Moss during an off-season TV interview. TO never forgot that diss, and when Moss beat Revis earlier this season for a touchdown, he couldn’t resist Tweeting “I see Revis Island getting’ exposed. Now that hammy is really hurting”.

Owens added another Tweet yesterday, calling Revis “just an average corner”.

“Everybody has assessed his abilities as far as what he did last year, shutdown corner, this and that”, Owens said. “He did very well last year. But I think I’m looking forward to the challenge, just like he’s looking forward to the challenge”.

Revis will get his chance to respond tomorrow night in the Bengals Jets matchup in the Meadownlands tomorrow night. The Jets plan is for Revis to cover Owens and Cromartie (Jets other corner) on Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco.

Revis said that Owens tweet after that New England game “just put a big chip on my shoulder”. In fact, he [Revis] didn’t even seem to regret that Owens was still pissed about that “slouch” comment.

“At the time, that’s what I felt”, Revis said. “You guys see the same thing. I’m just saying what I see. That’s how I felt, that’s what it is”.

All this trash talk will come to a head tomorrow night in Jersey.

“After the season, around the Super Bowl, so many media people pumping him up, with him up, with him shutting so many people down, he came out and said that I was a slouch, myself and Randy.: Owens said. “You know, I heard it. It’s in the back of my mind”.

Owens seems to have something to prove. Last year in two games against the Jets, Revis held him to 44 yards on 6 catches. This year, TO is among the league leaders in catches (62) and receiving yards (897). It’s just too bad his performance hasn’t impacted the Bengals record (2-8).

Source: New York Post

The Giants won the right, via coin toss, to play the first regular season game at the new Meadowlands stadium, and Jets owner Woody Johnson is flipping out.

Almost immediately after the NFL announced that the Giants – via coin flip – would play the first regular-season game at the new Meadowlands stadium, Woody Johnson released a statement aimed at NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, criticizing the coin toss process because it took place without a presence of a representative from either team.

“An NFL coin toss has a few fundamental elements that are missing here, most notably the presence of the teams involved”, said Johnson, whom one source described as “outraged” by the procedure. “That’s how it’s always done in the league, whether it’s determining the order of the draft or deciding who’s going to kick off the game”.

The funny thing is that Johnson claims it was his idea to use the coin toss, but the NFL initially rejected the idea. He said it was “the fairest way to resolve the issue”. Johnson said he was informed on Friday that the coin toss occurred at the NFL league office, and the Jets had lost.

“We rejected a process in which neither team was present”, he said. “The league departed from our time-honored tradition and declined that the opportunity to set the matter straight with a transparent process.”

After the coin toss on Friday, the Jets posted a story on their website Saturday night, reporting the NFL had made plans for a coin flip. The story promoted the coin toss idea, saying the Jets wanted to make it a media event that their fans could witness. It appears the story was a ploy to put pressure on the NFL league office into a do-over.

According to sources, Goodell didn’t invite the teams to send reps to the coin flip because the Giants didn’t want to flip. To appease each team, Goodell’s plan was that the coin toss winner would open the stadium on Sunday and the loser would host the first Monday Night Football game the following day.

The Giants will play the Sunday afternoon game at the Meadowlands on opening day and the Jets will play the next day at 7:00 pm on Monday Night Football. The opponents for both games will be announced on Monday at the NFL meetings in Orlando, Florida.

I’m surprised that the usually mild-mannered Woody Johnson publicly released such a strong statement. Maybe the speaking style of Jets’ head coach, Rex Ryan, is rubbing off on him.

It seems that the plan for the New York Giants to repeat as Super Bowl champions is in jeopardy.  And it all started just a few weeks ago with the arrest of star wide receiver Plaxico Burress.

Plaxico Burress is the outspoken and often in trouble New York Giant receiver who was suspended after shooting himself in the thigh at a nightclub in New York City. 

Since his suspension, the Giants have lost two games in a row and the offense has stalled.  The Giants front office and coaches say their recent slump has nothing to do with the Plaxico situation but there is no denying the loss of Burress could very well cost the Giants (11-3) the first-round bye that just weeks ago seemed a sure thing.

If the Giants lose their final two games to Carolina (11-3) and Minnesota (9-5) and the Vikings win their last two, then the Giants will play a first-round game.

The Plaxico-less offense has been able to muster only 1 touchdown in losses to the Philadelphia and Dallas the past two weeks.

“There is very little getting done offensively,” coach Tom Coughlin said Monday. “We are just unable right now; we haven’t made a play in the last couple of weeks and we really have to make some plays. We’re very disappointed. The players are disappointed.”

The road won’t get any easier this week with the Panthers coming to the Meadowlands for a game in which the winner will clinch a first-round bye and NFC’s home-field advantage for the postseason.

In addition to the loss of Plaxico – Brandon Jacobs, the “earth” of the “earth, wind and fire” running back trio, has a knee injury that sidelined against the Cowboys last week and may be unavailable for the matchup next week with Carolina.

Plaxico’s replacement Domik Hixon has not stepped up and has dropped at least one sure touchdown pass and the senior citizen of the receivers, Amani Toomer is no longer a deep pass threat.

The Giants offensive line has also played sub-par over the last two weeks.  The offensive line has protected Eli Manning well, but against the Cowboys, Eli was sacked 8 times and 12 times over the last two weeks.

What is going on?

Since Plaxico is out, teams no longer need to double team the receivers. Instead they can position the Safety to stop the run.  And with Brandon Jacobs out, the Giant running attack is suspect.

The one bright spot for the Giants is their defense.  Their defense kept them in the 20-14 loss to Philadelphia and the 20-8 loss to Dallas.

Sundays game will be a testament to the intestinal fortitude of the Giants – but they have come back from adversity before.

Don’t count the Giants out yet!