^ THIS. Revis is the reason why Revis will no longer be a JET for long and good luck to whoever signs this headache. It's his history with contracts that I can not respect.
I agree that the sole blame goes to woody and tanny. They have overpaid in the past leaving the team strapped financially so they cannot offer the proper amount he deserves. A player only has a small window to really make what they need to retire on and that is where revis is at. I don't believe he deserves to be the highest defensive player. He deserves to be paid the highest CB without a doubt. The jets front office and the media has really hurt this guy's image as a "Diva" DB . That's not fair to him and the jets better trade him before they lose him for nothing. There is no way we can sign him and have a healthy cap or have to cut half the team. We got screwed by that sanchez contract and the holmes contract. Blame woody johnson. He has been the greedy owner that fans don't want. He wants to make money in a new york market without results like the giants have been giving there fans for over a decade.
I don';t think that Revis and his camp are without any blame, but I generally agree with you. One other thing - after 13, the cap situation greatly improves. Sanchez's guaranteed contract will no longer be a sea anchor on this team, and some other situations will also improve.
I'm not saying that Revis isn't at fault too. I'm just trying to show the other side of it. When a team gets rid of a guy, the famous, "The NFL is a business" starts to be used. Well it's a business for the player too.
So let me get this straight.. If you were GM, you wouldn't even negotiate a market value deal for a player on your squad, who is best at this position by far, a leader, a strong worker, no off field incidents.....just due to thinking he MAY hold out in a year or two? That stance really lacks vision. You can incorporate no hold out clauses in the language. If he won't agree to that, but will agree to market value deal, i'd still sign him. Players only hold out when they are tearing it up performance wise. So if he was exceeding expectations again, means the knee is great and so is the trade market. Plenty of options. Trading him under market value, and not negotiating, would be a knee jerk emotional reaction.....and that is what you seem to be supporting.
Really, who cares? The Jets don't want him at any price and he won't get 15 million in the end either once other teams see that. As somebody said recently, you don't pay somebody that far away from the ball 15 million dollars no matter who it is. Not unless you want to end up whhere the Jets are now with the awful bloated contracts of Revis, Harris, Holmes and their third rate quarterback.
What is the highest salary a CB will earn this year (2013) ? What is the highest AVERAGE SALARY a CB is currently signed for ? Since the Aso contract is kaput, the Reevis clan should not be using that as a benchmark anymore. If the market is at $10 MM, would Revis sign a LT deal for $12-$13 MM a year with more years guaranteed, maybe a balloon payment when the cap goes up, and maybe a promise that he'll always be Top 2/3/5 in CB salary ??? Would that get it done ? I also wonder if Reevis wants to sign with the Jets if he thinks Rex is a goner.
You could've blamed him before Mario Williams got $100 million from the Bills. Revis' argument is that he's not just the top corner, he's one of the top defensive players in the league. As well as the face of the franchise, a surefire Hall of Famer on a team with nobody else who can make any kind of claim like that. He wants his paycheck to reflect that. It's a good argument. There was a banner I kept seeing in sports bars last year, I think it was a Sunday Ticket ad, that had all the elite quarterbacks on it, plus Revis and one or two other guys. If he's big enough to stand with those guys on the NFL's marketing materials, why isn't he big enough to get paid like those guys do. If I'm Revis' agent, I'm trying to hang that banner up every time I meet with Idzik or Woody.
And just to add on since I haven't been posting here and need to vent, if indeed Revis gets shipped out, the Jets can consider this fan to have shipped out with him until Woody is out of the picture. The idea that I would have any sort of emotional attachment to a team who's business is determined according to the personal agenda of an over-privileged know-nothing like him is asinine. Revis walking is bad business, bad football, bad everything. The impression I've gotten from this season is that if he can find a way to do it, Woody will let the Jets play out 2013 with less than the required 53 man roster. He appears to have lost all interest in paying a football team, he wants to tear down what's left of the Jets and bury Rex in the rubble. Letting LaRon Landry walk without an offer, leaving two vacant safety spots and zero candidates to fill them, is something you do if you've given up trying. Woody, sell the team so the rest of us can get on with our lives.
If it makes you feel better to blame Al Davis because our Jets botched this whole Revis situation for years and years, then so be it.. The reality is Darrelle Revis is a great player and probably wants to continue being paid like one.. He will get what he is worth in this league, and he has the right to try to get the most money out of his abilities. The business of the NFL. The Jets trading Revis though, is nothing but laying in the bed that they made. Al Davis didn't cause this mess, it's been years of bad decision making and warped priorities internally that caused it. At this point, I'm resigned to the fact that they are probably trading him and just hoping they get a decent return.. But I don't have to be happy about it, and I'm sure as hell not going to blame a dead man that had and continues to have nothing to do with this organization.
this thread is good for laughs. who can predict what goes on in some peoples minds. For all those unfortunate single player worshipers w/ your idle threats, factual assumptions and asinine thought processes, do us all a favor and just leave. Don't say goodbye, just delete your account.
My disatisfaction with Woody as the owner goes back a ways, but it continues to grow. Despite having gotten to the Champ Game twice, the team has been in decline ever since, and while i hate to focus on the Jets and say they lucked out, you can certainly make that argument for 2009, and even 2010. but that's not the main point here. The main point is a going forward one, and something tells me the Jets will not win a Super Bowl as long as Woody owns hte team. He's perhaps not the worst possible kind of owner there is, but he is not the kind of owner who wins Super Bowls. He's not like the Ravens owner, who lets his football people run the team without interference. He's not even a Jerry Jones type owner who at least knows more about football than Woody, even if he's not a true football guy. He's not like the Rooneys or the Maras or (I hate to say) Bob Kraft, either. Even the Spanos seem to have a better grip on things, and they don't seem likely to win an SB in the foreseeable future, either. All that analysis tempts me to perhaps not toss my Jet fandom aside, but perhaps instead tone it down a bit. Not care quite so much. Not spend so much time and thought on them. By that thinking it is probably force of habit more than anything else that keeps me involved. Still, it remains theoretically feasible that either Woody might sell the team or that they could win it in spite of him. Get a decent Qb in there and build around the core of Mangold, Ferguson, Holmes, Revis, Cro, maybe Wilkerson and Coples now, and even that overrated Harris, fill some of hte holes with some good draft picks, and perhaps by 14 even this team could contend again. But Woody is a problem, to be sure.
