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Episode Date: April 25, 2026

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I'm Julian Edelman, and we're bringing you one of our favorite segments from the show talking about one of our favorite dudes in the NFL. Let's go. Let's get on Dorel Revis Island, ladies and gentlemen. Jules, what's the first thing you think of when you hear to name Dereil Rieves? The best. He's the best man-on-man corner that I played against, like where you could say you have this guy all game, go cover him.

That's a great point because a lot of great cornerbacks. right now. They still don't, you know, go across the field with the number one wide receiver. I mean, they're great, great cornerbacks. And then they just stay on one side of the field, maybe go into the slot a little bit when the number one goes in the slap. But you don't see any corner do it the way that Revis did. Like if the number one guy would motion across the field, well, guess what, Dorel Revis is motioning across the field and running across the field as well. He is the first one to truly be able to do that at, you know, at an efficient level throughout the whole entire game as well.

You know, and I don't like saying that like it's one guy that helps bring us over the top for us to go out and win Super Bowls. But he was a huge reason for our defense. When they brought him over to our defense, our defense, him and Browner and all the additions along with McCordy and high and Jamie. But like when he came, our defense became a completely different defense because they could scheme up and do all these different things and just say, hey, Doreau, you have that guy. going to do all this other stuff or when we put him on the two and then we double the one like

you know what i mean it was just like a completely different defense and i mean he's he's a defense of corny his best friend i mean it makes scheming that much easier because it's not like all right we got this type of talent with drowl we're going to use them in this situation and then we're going to have the guys work around him and you know and and fit in and you know cross over here no it's Doreau Rivas has this guy man to man the whole entire game. It's as easy as that. And also that one thing that came in my head was how smart he was. Because I remember we used to, you know, we do our two minute drills after, like when we practice, when I got to practice against Dorel, it made me a way better player. And I would always ask him if he, you know, may have covered me or

if I got him, why did I get you? Why did you cover me? And he, you know, he would go like, he would say, dude, it's third and seven. And you guys ran this concept like five times last week. Like he had like photographic memory of like situational football, which you always hear, you know, when you watch highlights of him, man, he was covering the route for that guy. Well, he would actually cover the route for the guy because he knew situationally how the defense was playing conceptually.

Like that's how smart he was. He was always on balance. He was 5-11, 198 pounds. So he wasn't like a tall, tall corner, but he was kind of like a tweener guy where he had really long arms, but he had shorter legs. So he was always on balance.

You never saw Dorel Rivas off balance. And he had such a strong offhand, or he had strong hands. So he had like long guy arms. Good bump and run. A good stab. Yes, he had a great stab. He had those like big, big guy arms,

but he had like still. kind of like quick balancing kind of legs because he was only 5-11. Like he was really strong every time at the line of scrimmage and he was patient. He was always very patient at the line of scrimmage or he'd let you do all your bullshit and he would just sit there and wait and step when you step there and then he would put his hand on you. Like he was just, he was technically sound always even when he was older. Like and he lost his speed. He could still be productive because he was so smart. Incredible football IQ. He was physical, competitive, great practice habits as well. Good size for a corner. Not always great. Yes. Not always great, man. What do you mean? Not great practice

happens. I would say at the beginning. And if you were out, if you were to get Reeve on a route, he would like, all right, I got him. Like he would let you win the route. I would say early on in his career, he had to have great practice habits. That's how you become a smart player. You've got to see every situation and how you see every situation as a player's. through practice as well, not just games. And then also he's got great vision though. Vision was insane. He lived in the film room.

And what you were talking about is like how you, how you just do all your pity pattering, you're jabbing and all that. And he just stays still and patient. Yeah. Like that's when you know that's a great defensive player in front of you. You're like, you're trying to make all your moves and they're just not falling for it. Like you can't get open versus those guys because they only react when they truly need to react, you know, in that.

coverage situation. And that's what Darao Rivas did. Like, you can be running at him and he's just so patient and still and he'll only flinch when he needs a flinch to cover you. You know, but you can't just be patient at the line of scrimmage. Like some guys try to be patient, then you run by him. You know what I mean? You still got to be able. No, no, no. He was patient. He was patient. He was patient. You couldn't run by him. But you couldn't run by him because he was always on balance. He was never off balance. And that's like, that's how you get open at releasing guys or at tops or routes, you get on their toes, you balance them out. Like he just, he was a force, man.

He's definitely, I think, a Mount Rushmore of corner. Oh, there's no doubt he's of Mount Rushmore, you know, of the cornerback position. Who are the other ones? You got Drell Revis. Who else would you say would be on it, you know, for corners? Ties in there. Yeah. Yeah.

You got up. There you go. Dion. Dion. Ty law, no doubt about that. Tile on for his physicality and how he played. Yes. No question about that.

in the past. And then we'll just put the fourth for the, you know, the viewers to argue who's the fourth on the Mount Rushmore. Yeah, they're definitely going to kill us, say like that. Oh, you guys just picked a guy that was out your franchise. No, no. And Dionne Sanders, because he's like the most popular guy. Go watch Deion Sanders.

I like you're going to say, oh, yeah, there ain't no corner like Deon Sanders. Darrell Green. I used to love Darrell Green with the formerly Redskins now commanders. man Charles Woodson's up there I mean C, Wood but he played everything too Dural made me a better player as well

because when I was coming off of my injury I was coming off my knee surgery and we brought him into the organization so like he would shadow me because I was trying to come back and he wanted a little extra work and he wanted an extra work like all right you know he doesn't see a guy

that's 6, 6, 260 all the time so every single day in training camp he would come down and I'd be doing one-on-one by myself just to get me back, you know, into the rhythm of practice because I didn't really practice that training camp because, like I said, I was coming off of a knee surgery that when I blew up my knee that year. And I was only like eight months at the time. So we would go one-on-one and he would shadow me, you know, every single day throughout

training camp. And, you know, I take credit that hopefully I made him a better player because of it. It wasn't like I was full, full speed yet. I was 80, 90 percent. But like just to have a guy. like throughout Revis being able to shadow me and help build my confidence back up, man. He was a tremendous teammate for that as well. Like it was like, all right, you got to go cover gronke.

He's doing one-on-ones over that. He'd never complain and he always came over and we made each other better players. You know, he was a quieter dude. Yeah, he definitely was. But when he spoke, you listened. Oh, no doubt. You know, I'm kind of convinced he may have been a computer just because he probably wanted to see your body movement so he could take a picture of it in his mind for guys like that he could

just like Terminator put in his mindset. All right, this guy semi like, well, not like Grunk, but body type of Gronk. Let me see how he released. Boom, Bing, bang. Dang, ping, pong. That's Grank. Oh, got his movements down.

I can cover him. But, I mean, I, when you play, like, I remember when he was a jet, you hated him. But like you said, when he came over, I tried to use him as much as I could because he was such a tool of how smart he was. and like practice just all he's seen so many guys because he always played against the one you know what I mean so you wanted to do you wanted to know what Revis thought when you were practice against him

because he was the guy that knew and he was the guy that had the reps and he was the guy that was literally people were drawing islands like this is Revis I like he's an island that's crazy and and it's one thing that hits me is how crazy the University of what or Pitt they got some amazing alumni. They got Dan Marino,

Larry Fitzgerald, Lashon McCoy, Aaron Donald, Aaron Donald, Tony Dorset. And then you're talking about the University of Pat. Jules, remember I went to high school my senior year in Pittsburgh,

Woodland Hills. And those guys you just named also were products. Most of those guys were products of Western Pennsylvania football as well. I'm telling you, Western Pennsylvania, I said this before,

is one of the most low-key best high school. football out there in the country. It ranks with, you know, I'm talking Florida teams, Florida communities. I think Joe Montana's from West PA. It ranks to, you know, the Texas high school programs that you see, California programs you see. And Ohio is low key as well. We were just speaking about Kelsey and how he's from Cleveland, Ohio. They got great football as well. That's, that's mean and green and gritty and get, and put your hand down in the dirt and get dirty with it. But you got, you what, Aliquippa. That's like one of the rivals for Woodland Hills.

You got Aaron Donald who went to Penn. Penn is like five minutes from Woodland Hills. You got Dan Marino who went to Central Catholic. That was one of our rivals as well when I was at Wooden Hills. Tala, Aliqua. He's from there, Joe Montana, Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath. I mean, you got Lashon McCoy. West Pitt.

He's not Western Pennsylvania, but he's still Pennsylvania football. He was like Central Pennsylvania. I mean, it's unbelievable just the product and the- Curtis Martin and the dudes that Pennsylvania football produces high school and University of Pitt. Hall of Famers all over the place. Now we talk about, you know, and that's one of the arguments in the locker room all of time, you know, like when you're with all the guys, oh, California guys think California's got the best, the Louisiana guys think Louisiana, the Texas, the Florida's, the Pittsburgh's,

the Ohio's, you know, those are always such fun. But like when you look at their list. Those are always fun debates. Those are fun. I'm telling you, I think Western Pennsylvania, it may be number one, a low key number one. Hey, at one. at one point when I was in the NFL, we had 11 guys from my just from my high school in the NFL at once. It was the most of any high school in the nation. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Wow. Jeez. It is right. And here's the thing. Another thing about Dereal Revis because like no one ever thinks about this situation. You got to think about it too because it's a situation I could never see you doing as well. This guy was a Patriots rival like on the New York Jets.

This kind of just shows where the Jets organization is is that he was the face of the organization, you know. And as a player like that, you usually never want to jump ship and end up at your rival. Like it just would feel weird. Well, obviously, it didn't feel weird while he had the little stint in Tampa first, which kind of broke it up, which would probably help for his decision to come to New England.

Like, oh, you know, I'm a jet, but like I was just in Tampa, so they kind of forgot about it. But it just shows, like, where the organization's at, where he was totally fine to be like, all right, it's time to go back in that division where I was, a superstar and had Revis Island going, you know, for myself. And I'm going to go with the New England Patriots and try to win a Super Bowl now. Like, we would have never ever thought that in my life. Like, when I went down to Tampa Bay, I was like, I will never go to arrival of the New England Patriots.

And that's why I was so satisfied going to Tampa because I was like, hey, no one's arrival to Tampa Bay at this time. Yo, Reeve was almost one of the first guys that started hitting off with those short contracts where he would hit you for a couple, two years. And then he would leave. He didn't give a sponge. He made money. He was funny, man. He didn't care.

Nah, he didn't. You got to love that. He was the first to show that. He's a symbol. Yeah, he's the first to represent players to show, hey, this is how it's done if you're a player. Don't let these organizations take advantage, you know? Well, he did. Get your money.

And we appreciate that. You know, we really do. Oh, in 2009, he had six interceptions of career high, two in the playoffs, which they went to the AFC championship. One of the best seasons by a cornerback in NFL history. He held all star receivers to an average of 30 yards per game. He had a sick one-handed

interception against Vincent Jackson, and he did have a couple, he covered Moss. On the game, Moss had the one-handed catch on him. Yes. Moss had that one-handed catch, but Reeve was giving him fits all game. game. Yeah, I think Reeve, like we saw the two greatest players, like scale players to ever go against each other. I think there was a clip. It was 2009, was it, where Revis had an interception on Moss. And it was one of the best plays I've seen in a corner because he's first off, he's going versus

Moss who's bigger than him, has a longer arm reach as well. And he jumps up and high points the ball. Yeah. But then we got to go back. You got to give credit to Moss 2010. My rookie year, he comes back. the next year and he has that one hand grab versus Revis you know in the end zone from that bomb from Brady I mean I was on the sideline on that play and I was like damn that was nice like that's Randy Moss who just made that play and it was on Derao Reeves so they each got each other and that was a heck of a battle because it's like a Hall of Famer corner versus a Hall of Famer wide receiver Randy was still like Reeve was in his prime prime though he was still young like Randy was young like Randy wasn't like I would love to see that when Randy was like Minnesota Randy.

It would have been a heck of a battle. But that's why Randy Moss's one hand catch was even more impressive. In crazier. Because it was like it was prime. Yeah. And it was his talent, Randy Moss's talent. Dude, he low key was a monster on Twitter early in the days. He used to have some outrageous Twitter battles with like guys.

Beef. He's had some wild beef on Twitter. I actually, I'm coming to the big apple to give NYU what they never seen an escape inmate gone wild on Revis Island. Revis's response to Ocho Sinko's try to cover me, tweet. Good morning world. I just woke up from a crazy dream. Ocho Sinko came on to Revis Island and disappeared. I'm telling you, I don't think Revis ever lost a Twitter beef. They're fun. I mean, you only hear about him on Twitter is when there's a beef. and let me tell you, he does bring that heat to the table.

Hopefully he gets in the beef soon. I know. Yeah, but I think he's had a lot of beef on Twitter and a lot of like back and forth, but I swear I'm pretty sure like Revis has won all the beefs. Look at the notable. Like all the beefs. So in 2009,

all these receivers had 35 yards or less. And these guys were good. Andre Johnson. He was in his prime then. Randy Moss. In his prime that year. Marquis Colston. Oh, I love Marquise.

T.O. Twice. Torrey Holt. Oh. Steve Smith. Reggie Wayne and Ocho Cinco. Dang. Damn. That is Revis Island for you.

Right there. Shit. Time. And what was one cool thing when he got into the Hall of Fame in 2023. He was the first ballot. Obviously, I mean, Revis Island, one of the best corners, if not the best corner of all time. What was really cool about it was that his mom, Diana, inducted him into the Hall of Fame. That's awesome.

You know, that's special, you know. You got to give credit to all the moms out there. I mean, they got us to where we are. They're the ones who brought us to all our practices growing up, make sure we were fed, scheduled everything, scheduled all our appointments, if we were sick to get us healthy. So shout out to Revis's mom for the induction of Dereyrault Revis into the Hall of Fame. What kind of dude is Derell Revis?

Well, he's definitely a serious. stud, he's a freak. He's a dog. Dude's dude. But I think one comes to mind. One, two, three, whiz. I mean, he was so clutch. All you got to say, hey, man, just cover that guy.

And he would cover him all game because he knew the knowledge of the whole game playing. He knew the knowledge of the whole other team what they were doing. He was just, he was innovative, man. He was. And he was knowledgeable on the field and also kind of off the field with contracts as well. He maximized. his potential of earning, which is just amazing. You got to appreciate that because you see a lot of guys coming to the NFL

and they just get used and abuse and they don't get paid like they should. And then boom, they're thrown out. Thanks for listening. Catch brand new episodes of dudes on dudes on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else you get your podcasts. 2026 NFL Draft is here and the NFL Daily podcast has it covered from all angles. Join me, Greg Rosenthal, and Jordan Roderig after night one on Thursday.

Nick Shook joins me night two Friday and then Sunday to recap everything that went down over the three days in Pittsburgh. We'll tell you who won the draft and which players were my favorite picks. Listen to NFL Daily with Greg Rosenthal on the free IHeart Radio app. Open the app, search NFL Daily, and listen now. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me.

Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skisle of a game. kids, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfilled of conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to The Clifford show on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your

podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok podcast network on TikTok. This week on the Sports Slice podcast, it's all. all about the NFL draft, and we've got a special guest. The director of the NFL's East-West Shrine Bowl, Eric Galko, joins the Sports Slice podcast to break down what really matters when evaluating draft prospects. From hidden traits teams look for to the biggest mistakes franchises make to the players

flying under the radar, this is the insight you won't hear anywhere else. If you want to understand the draft like an insider, you don't want to miss this episode. Listen to the Sports Slice podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your And for more, follow Timbo Slica Life 12 and TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. What's up, everyone? I'm Ago Vodam. My next guest, it's Will Ferrell. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. He goes, just give it a shot. But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration.

It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot of luck. Listen to Thanks Dad on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.