Conditioning - gate

In mid-September, Bleacher Report NFL writer Jason Cole reported that Darrelle Revis didn’t work diligently on conditioning in the offseason.

“As I reported earlier this week, #Jets CB Darrelle Revis didn’t work out hard this offseason,” Cole tweeted, Sept. 15. This tweet was during the Jets-Bills game (8:57 p.m.).

Cole said the source of the information told him “You’ll see. You’ll see.”

For some reason this story didn’t gain any traction until six days after the Jets beat Buffalo, a game in which Revis gave up a deep touch down to Marquise Goodwin.

The reason this tweet probably flew under the radar for a few days was that the Jets media was preoccupied with the game when this report landed on Twitter.

On the following Wednesday the writers asked Revis questions about the report at his locker in the Jets’ Florham Park complex.

During his press briefing, Sept. 21, Revis was asked multiple questions about the Cole report.

New York Post reporter Brian Costello asked Revis who he thought the source was. This is a rather unusual question. It’s very rare for reporters to ask a player or coach who they think a source was.

And Revis didn’t hesitate saying he thought the source was one of his former agents — Neil Schwartz or Jonathan Feinsod.

“Yeah, no doubt,” Revis said. “No doubt. Definitely. If that’s how they want to approach it, that’s how they approach it on their end. You take the good with the bad. That was a shot. But it’s all good.”

Almost every beat reporter, and some national scribes, reached out to Schwartz and Feinsod to get their reaction to Revis claiming one of them was the source.

They used the same answer they gave after it came out that Revis fired them in May.

“As I previously stated, Jonathan and I only wish Darrelle the best of luck,” Schwartz said.