This is how Tanny is looking at this 6 year $67 mil deal: "I have Revis for three years for $21 mil. I am giving him $46 mil for the following 3 years beating out Aso's contract". This is how Revis' or/and his agent is looking at it: "6 year $67 mil deal is around $11 mil a year. No way we sign that shit. Your (Revis) worth 14+ mil per year. This deal should be 6 years $80+ mil."
Revis will get his 6 yr/80+ million contract. In 2012, because there's no point in locking him up to that kind of deal now as the article does such a good job of pointing out. The Jets have Revis under contract for 2010, 2011 and 2012. There's no way it makes sense for them to break the bank for him now when they have many other pressing issues that will come up before they actually have to sign him, and ALL of those pressing issues will use the Revis contract as a guideline for where they want the Jets to go with their contracts. Sign Mangold first. He's the best center in football and if the Jets give Revis a huge deal the cost of signing Mangold will probably go up 30%. Seriously.
No he won't. Revis is guaranteed 20 over 2, in the last two years of his current deal for 20 mil. However, as I pointed out before this article, any potential long term deal starts with the phrase...'don't bring Oakland into this' Or...Be satisfied with the current deal, and then being franchised twice.
If u wait till 2012, you run the risk of Revis not signing an extension with us. If he is unhappy, he'll simply walk away. He'll get a huge salary in 2012 anyways so he has no motive to sign a long term deal with a team who's FO he's not happy with. He'll get a huge contract in 2013 regardless. Teams will beat out Jets contract offers and as I predicted few wks ago, Revis' contract will be around $100 mil for 6 in 2013 as a FA. Better sign him now for 6 years 70-75 mils than wait 3 years and risk losing him altogether.
Revis can't be franchised. Its part of his rookie contract/agreement. If he was able to, we'd do it in a heart beat and keep doing it for 10 years if we could since his value would be much more than the franchise tag. Too bad, Revis has his back covered this time (unlike the Ted Ginn TD).
The Bills played this game with Jason Peters... and it fucked them. Revis is an even better player... why play games with him? Is saving that extra few million worth upsetting and possibly burning the bridges with your best player? I don't think it is... Just pay him...
He also will lose money if he's not a pro bowler, through incentive clauses. So he better damn well play his butt off.
a contract in the range of 6 yrs 80 mil is reasonable. 13.3 a year plus a nice couple signing bonuses is completely fair and to have insentives that gives him room to make more money, like if he's voted DPOY or to the Pro Bowl. Makes sense to me.
Revis played at the same level in 2008, he just didn't get as much national media attention cus of Brett Favre
Revis isn't guaranteed that 20 million unless the Jets exercise the buyback option at the end of 2010. He is currently slated to earn only a million in the final year of his deal.
The corollary to this is that the Jet's pass D was ranked 29th in 2008 in yards allowed with Revis playing very well indeed. That tells you what a great CB's effect on a team pass defense is in isolation: basically zilch. If you look at the other stats the Jets were a bit better that year but they didn't finish higher than 18th in any team pass defense category that season.
The Lions won 12 games in 1991 in Sander's third season with Erik Kramer and Rodney Peete splitting the duties at QB. Sanders had 383 of the Lions 706 touches that year and was the only reason that they avoided their usual 5-11 to 9-7 finish. Last year, in what is likely to be one of Darrelle Revis' greatest seasons when all is said and done, the Jets went 9-7. The year before they went 9-7. The year before in Revis great rookie campaign (and it was an excellent year for him) they went 4-12. The Jets have had much more talent on hand for Revis to play along side of than Sanders had in Detroit. It's just that a great CB doesn't make that big a difference in the end. He can't put the team on his back and carry it. That's why cornerbacks just aren't as valuable as people who play closer to the center of the field. The Jets lost to the Dolphins twice last year because Sparano and Parcells basically said: "So you have a great cornerback? So what?" and ran the ball down the Jets throats until Revis meant very little in the overall calculation as to who would win the games. Only Al Davis is stupid enough to think a cornerback should be paid like a quarterback. Senility is it's own reward.
Rex Ryan was the reason the Jets had such a great defense last year... However, the defense gave up 7 TD's through the air during the regular season because of Darrelle Revis. He's worth 13-14 million a year. He's THAT good.
They ran all over us in the first game, not the second. If the '09 Jets had a veteran QB instead of a rookie they almost certainly would have finished with a better record than 9-7. The defense was not the problem most of the time when we lost.
