La presentazione di Darrelle Revis

Il GM Mark Dominik, il CB Darrelle Revis e l'HC Greg Schiano

E' stato presentato ieri nel corso di una conferenza stampa il nuovo arrivato in casa Bucs, il CB Darrelle Revis. Come sempre in simili circostanze, entusiasmo e buoni propositi da parte di tutti, a partire dall'HC Greg Schiano. Di seguito, alcune dichiarazioni rilasciate dal coach, da Revis e dal GM Mark Dominik, tratte dal Tampa Bay Times e dal Tampa Tribune.

Innanzi tutto, che impatto avrà Revis sulla difesa dei Bucs? Così Schiano: 
"Certainly it has a big affect, for any coach, when you can match up a player with the other team's best receiver,'' Schiano said. "You can do some different things schematically when you have a player of Darrelle's talents. We've already begun our preparation and how to best utilize him and a lot of that will come in conversations with Darrelle, what he's comfortable doing, what he feels best doing. This isn't a rookie out of college, this is a guy who has played and been very successful in this league. We're going to play to his strengths within our scheme.''

Da parte sua, Revis ha sottolineato il valore di alcuni dei suoi compagni di squadra: 
“The intangibles we have here with this team with players like Josh Freeman, Vincent Jackson and Doug Martin – I could go on and on, down the list. We have some great guys and that was one of the things that we looked at. We have some guys here that can already play and I think that makes this the best fit for me.''

E sempre Revis, pare essere convinto circa il valore del suo nuovo team:
”I think they were a playoff team even before me being a part of Buc Nation.”
Nonché di essere arrivato nel posto giusto:
"There's no better place to win than here in Tampa," Revis said, adding, "it's a blessing how highly this organization looks at me. It didn't happen in New York for certain reasons. There are a lot of reasons why not. But I'm here now, and I'm a Buc, and that's how it's going to be for the next six years."

Inoltre, da rilevare come Revis abbia specificato che il contratto da lui firmato (16 milioni di dollari a stagione per 6 anni, ma zero dollari garantiti) sia un accordo "unique in a lot of ways," quasi una specie di  "scommessa" con se stesso, avendo accettato di firmare un contratto a cifre molto alte che gli saranno però elargite solo se il suo rendimento sul campo sarà a quei livelli da fuoriclasse mostrati nelle precedenti stagioni in NFL.

Infine, parola al GM Mark Dominik, l'artefice principale della trade: “You win in this league with your starters and your stars,” Dominik said. “This was an opportunity to add an elite player at a position of much need for our team. … This is a known commodity that we strongly believe in, and that’s why we pulled the trigger.”