locking Revis up long term should be among the top priorities for the front office.....good on Tannenbaum if he gets this deal done in advance.
Seems like he'd be better off waiting until after the "Final League Year" considering the current restrictions.
Can we frontload his new contract so he gets a huge salary this year (no cap) and gets a more manageable salary in future years?
i think the rule is a player cannot be given anymore than 30% raise from the previous seasons salary. so i believe the answer is no.
you can't give a player less than 50% from the previous year. So if they want to give him 15 this year, he makes no less than 7.5 next year, and then it escalates from there by a maximum of 30%. So Revis is going to be expensive no matter what. he's was the real DPOY.
we need to get his contract done, followed by mangold....hell we should lock up mangold's sister to play left guard while we are at it.
Revis, Mangold, Brick, and Harris all need to be locked up (in that order). Those are foundation players you don't let walk.
Uhm, we own Revis through 2012. What's with this contract voiding after 2010 crap? We get to buy the last two years (2011 and 2012) back. He'll make $5 mill in 2011 and probably $15 mill in 2012, when we'll renegotiate with him.
Even though the 15 mil in 2012 would sound really nice, I'm sure Darrelle would prefer to sign a long term extension right now moreso than the option of getting both those 2 years bought back, which would be more like 1 yr 'wait and see' type deals. I think we owe it to him to do what he'd prefer since he's so goddamn good, and extending his contract right now would show that him that the franchise really values him. Plus, anything can happen in the NFL (see: LW with contract negotiations this year) and I'm sure he'd love to get this out the way right now and asap.
I have no problem with working out an extension for Revis. I was only pointing out how misleading it was to say that Revis' contract voids after 2010. Technically accurate, but misleading. BTW, I'm for working out a deal with Revis because we'll try to front load it as much as possible, and hopefully get a minor discount cause he knows we could have him for the next three years, not because 'he'd like it'. The LW example you gave is a horrible one. LW got hurt, is less valuable now and lucky for us he didn't sign a big deal, so is not gonna be a huge weight on our cap going into the future.
