Post by diamondace121 on Dec 18, 2011 20:23:51 GMT -5
UFSL star wide receiver Devin Street usually has an easy time in determining his rooting interests in a football game. Any NFL team that has a Pitt player, he wants that player to do well for his team against a team that does not have a Pitt player. There are exceptions of course, such as his own personal favorite team or the teams he dislikes, but those come with the territory. This week, however, he was torn in one matchup. Former Pitt cornerback Darrelle Revis and the New York Jets faced off against former Pitt running back Lesean McCoy and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Street, having recently been a Pitt player himself, is good friends with both Revis and McCoy. Seeing his two friends on opposite sidelines created a dilemma for the wide receiver. Which team should he favor in the game? Since both players wouldn’t usually be lined up against each other (Revis would defend wide receivers as a cornerback, and McCoy would face linemen and linebackers as a running back) it would be entirely possible for both players to have a successful game. However, both are somewhat team-oriented guys, so a personal success would mean less to them than a slightly less successful performance and a win. Street didn’t want to wish a loss on either of his friends.
He decided what he would do. He would just hope for personal success for both players, and the result of the game could go where it would. He would hope that the Eagles’ running game was on, featuring McCoy, but that the Jets had a successful pass defense, led by Revis. That way, he could stay neutral between his friends in the overall game but he could hope they both had their own measure of success individually.
In the game, McCoy had a great deal of success, running for 102 yards and scoring three touchdowns. With this type of result for him, it pretty well locked up the win. It certainly made it harder for Revis, a defensive player, to influence the result heavily enough to make up for McCoy’s three touchdown performance. It is rare for an entire team to have three defensive touchdowns in a game, let alone a single player, so McCoy would easily win the individual battle between him and Revis. Revis had three solo tackles on the day, but no defensive points, no turnovers, not even a pass deflection. It could be said that for the most part, Revis did his job of covering the offensive player well enough not to be thrown to, but he would still have a smaller influence on the game than McCoy, given his stellar outing.
Street sat there at the game with jerseys for both players, wearing the McCoy one in the first half and the Revis one in the second half. Of course, both were Pitt jerseys, not Eagles and Jets jerseys, as Street’s interest in the game was more from a Pitt standpoint than a NFL standpoint. He had a luxury box near the 50 yard line, and several friends from Reno were at the game as well as several friends from the Pitt football program. After the game, he called up both Revis and McCoy, and the three went out for drinks and talked about the good old days back at school.
Street, having recently been a Pitt player himself, is good friends with both Revis and McCoy. Seeing his two friends on opposite sidelines created a dilemma for the wide receiver. Which team should he favor in the game? Since both players wouldn’t usually be lined up against each other (Revis would defend wide receivers as a cornerback, and McCoy would face linemen and linebackers as a running back) it would be entirely possible for both players to have a successful game. However, both are somewhat team-oriented guys, so a personal success would mean less to them than a slightly less successful performance and a win. Street didn’t want to wish a loss on either of his friends.
He decided what he would do. He would just hope for personal success for both players, and the result of the game could go where it would. He would hope that the Eagles’ running game was on, featuring McCoy, but that the Jets had a successful pass defense, led by Revis. That way, he could stay neutral between his friends in the overall game but he could hope they both had their own measure of success individually.
In the game, McCoy had a great deal of success, running for 102 yards and scoring three touchdowns. With this type of result for him, it pretty well locked up the win. It certainly made it harder for Revis, a defensive player, to influence the result heavily enough to make up for McCoy’s three touchdown performance. It is rare for an entire team to have three defensive touchdowns in a game, let alone a single player, so McCoy would easily win the individual battle between him and Revis. Revis had three solo tackles on the day, but no defensive points, no turnovers, not even a pass deflection. It could be said that for the most part, Revis did his job of covering the offensive player well enough not to be thrown to, but he would still have a smaller influence on the game than McCoy, given his stellar outing.
Street sat there at the game with jerseys for both players, wearing the McCoy one in the first half and the Revis one in the second half. Of course, both were Pitt jerseys, not Eagles and Jets jerseys, as Street’s interest in the game was more from a Pitt standpoint than a NFL standpoint. He had a luxury box near the 50 yard line, and several friends from Reno were at the game as well as several friends from the Pitt football program. After the game, he called up both Revis and McCoy, and the three went out for drinks and talked about the good old days back at school.
