Darrelle Revis beef with Asante Samuel, explained

Did someone ask for some feisty offseason drama? Here’s everything you need to know about the Darrelle Revis-Asante Samuel Twitter beef.

The NFL offseason can surprise you. Given any month in the summer, there can be blockbuster trades, shocking draft picks, somber retirements, and even the obligatory Twitter spat between Tweedledee and Tweedledum about a laughably trivial matter.

New York Jets’ legend Darrelle Revis and famed defensive back Asante Samuel are this year’s Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

How did their Twitter beef start? Why should people care (they really should not)? Here’s a brief rundown of the days-long feud going on right now.

Darrelle Revis-Asante Samuel beef: Who started it?

A bit of a childish question, don’t you think? But it was Samuel. Samuel started the whole thing because he was presumably bored and wanted to stir up drama. He retweeted a post by Dov Kleiman that included a list of the best cornerbacks in the NFL in 2023 and he commented, “The New York media will take your career to another level.”

That was a direct shot at Jets’ Sauce Gardner, who was ranked No. 2 on the list. Revis apparently thought Gardner should be ranked lower, at least lower than Seahawks’ Tariq Woolen, who Revis claimed had a better rookie season than Sauce.

According to the facts, this was definitely not the case. Last year, the only defensive category Woolen outproduced Sauce in was interceptions.

Gardner fired back shortly after, pointing out that the cornerback list was generated by the league’s players, coaches, executives and scouts, not the NY media.

But Samuel was already on a roll, and he went after Jets Hall-of-Famer Darrelle Revis, who allegedly also received the magical “NY media” treatment.

Darrelle Revis-Asante Samuel beef: Revis tries to get the last word

Revis wasn’t about to let his name get slandered on Twitter and chimed into the argument, telling Samuel to “quit being a hater to young rising stars” and instead direct his anger at “the voters who never considered you shutdown.”

Ruh-roh.

Samuel played for the Patriots, Eagles, and Falcons during his 11-year career and won two Super Bowls, but he never got Hall-of-Fame recognition like Revis did when Revis dominated on the Jets for eight years.

At this point, The Athletic’s Ted Nguyen makes a wise observation that the beef between Revis and Samuel was partly due to each player’s different defending styles. Samuel and Woolen represent the big-play ballhawks, and Revis and Sauce represent pure man coverage corners.

In any case, the beef carried on and the players’ incessant comments and playground insults rolled into a giant snowball of nothingness.

If we could call a winner in this meaningless ego-measuring boxing match, it would probably be Revis for delivering the following knockout punch.

The moral of the story should simply be: take the high road. Or, if you’re going to fight, please do it in a back alley somewhere. Nobody wants to see two adult men start acting like toddlers and comparing diaper loads. Grow up.