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Episode Date: April 25, 2026

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On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to Dudes on Dudes. 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. Dorell, Rivas. Island, ladies and gentlemen. Jules, what's the first thing you think of when you hear to name Derell Revis?

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, Dural 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, Dorel, you have that guy and then we're 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 a defense of corner, he's best friend. I mean, it makes scheming that much easier because it's not like, all right, we got this type of talent with Dural. We're going to use them in this situation. And then we're going to have the guys work around them and, you know, and fit in and, you know,

cross over here. No, it's Deraa Revis 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 we when we practice when i got to practice against darrell 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 it's third and seven

and you guys ran this concept like five times last 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 Revis. this 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 511 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 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 what do you mean not not not great practice happens I would say at the beginning 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. That's how you become

a smart player. You got to see every situation and how you see every situation as a player is 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, 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. So and that's what Darao Rivas did.

Like you can be running out of 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 and then you run by him. you know what I mean you still got to be no no no 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 a Mount Rushmore

you know of the cornerback position who are the other ones you got drought Revis Who else would you say would be on it, you know, for corners? Ties in there, Dian's in there. Yeah, you got up. There you go. Dion. Dion.

Ty law, no doubt about that. Tylon for his physicality and how he played. Yes. No question about that. There's a bunch of guys 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. Good. You go watch Deon Sandry. I like you're going to say, oh, yeah, there ain't no corner like Deon Zeros.

Darryl Green. I used to love Daryl 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 at 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. because, 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, 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 you wanted to know what rivas 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 it's one thing that hits me is how crazy the University of

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. Joe's, 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 and gritty and get put your hand down in the dirt and get dirty with it but uh you got uh you what aliqua that's like one of the rivals for woodland hills you got aaron donnell who went to pen pen pen 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 lloy laquipa he's from there joe montana johnny unitas joe nameth i mean you got lishan mccoy west pit 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. Hall of Famers. 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 the 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 may be number one,

a low key number one. Hey, at one point when I was in the NFL, we had 11 guys from my just, just from my high school in the NFL once. It was the most of any high school in the nation. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Wow. Geez, it is right. And here's the thing. Another thing about Derelle 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 what a 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 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 a rival 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.

So 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 funge. Smart man, 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 a career high, including 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 that 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 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, 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. One hand. 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 Dural 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 Fame or wide receiver. Randy was still, like, Reve was in his prime, prime, though. He was still young-legged. He 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 Reeves. Yeah, and it was, it was his, Randy Moss's talent. Dude, he, 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'm coming to the big apple to give N.Y what they'd never seen an escape inmate gone wild on Revis Island. Revis's response to Ocho Cinco's. Try to cover me, tweet. Good morning, world. I just woke up from a crazy dream. Ocho Cinco came on to Revis Island and disappeared. I'm telling you, I don't think Revis ever lost a two.

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 35 yards. 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 Marquise Colston Oh I love Marquise Tio twice Torrey Holt Oh Steve Smith Reggie Wayne

And Ocho Sinko 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're fads scheduled everything schedule all our appointments if we were sick to get us healthy So shout out to Revis' mom for the induction of Doreau Revis into the Hall of Fame.

What kind of dude is Dorel Revis? Well, he's definitely a 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

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