You got to be kidding me. PAY THIS MOTHERFUCKER BEFORE WE LOSE THE BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER IN THE GAME!
OF course they have yet to do it... they can wait 'til 2011 before making a decision! The only way they don't pick up that option is: A) Revis re-signs long term B) We trade him for a thousand picks. I'll start worrying about Revis' contract in 2012...
This is all negotations. I just wish Revis would shut his mouth and let his agent and the team figure out the deal. Did any of us care last year that Revis held out his rookie year after he was drafted? No. And we won't this year when the games will be played either.
It's the same deal with all of Gilbert's clients on the Jets. They all get bitchy when their contracts come up.
He is not going to be paid higher than Aso. The Raiders gave him a ridiculous deal, and that was when he was a free agent. Revis is still locked up for 3 years. If he wants to "be paid" now, then he has to give up something. He can't ignore the fact that he has 3 years left AND the franchise tag can be used. Revis, you had a great season, and you're one of the best players in the league, but you are coming off as an arrogant diluted, greedy player now.
The way the contract is written it is going to automatically void at the end of 2010 because Revis has already hit the playing time requirements to have it auto-void at that point. The Jets have two buybacks available to them at that point, 2011 costs them 5 million and 2012 costs 15 million. There is a provision in the contract that says that the franchise and transition tags may not be used on Revis after his contract has voided.
He'll probably get the best contract ever awarded to a cornerback at that point if Asomugha (who comes first) is able to duplicate his record deal from the Raiders. This assuming that he is still one of the top 2 or 3 CB's in the game at that point. Variables that are really important from the Jet's standpoint would be how good Kyle Wilson turns out to be, because you cannot pay two cornerbacks like #1's and compete, and whether Cromartie turns out to be a keeper. If Revis is going for a record contract and both Wilson and Cromartie work out I'm going to guess that the team trades Revis after 2011 for draft picks. That's just economics. One of the most likely scenarios is that Wilson has a strong rookie year (locked up until 2014) and Cromartie has a good season and the Jets are stuck with what to do about Cromartie at the end of the year. Do they give him a 5 year 35-40 million contract and line him and Wilson up for 2011-2014 or do they lockup Revis for 80 million? What's the difference between Darrelle Revis and Cromartie at the upper end of his game in terms of wins and losses? A win every 50 games? Every 100 games? It's not going to be a lot more than that and 40 million dollars is a lot to pay for a win every 5 years or so.
I said on the other thread, since they have him for 21 over 3, they should restructure his current deal, move the 2012 money into this year, (17,2,1) and write a contractual renegotiation if he's not making top 5 money essentially forcing an extension next year. He gets more than Nnamdi this year, next year the salary goes down to about 12 mil per year, and you can do a long term deal.
I'm not really following but why on earth would he agree to being paid 2 million and 1 million in 2011 and 2012?
This just pushes the problem off for a season and turns the Revis contract negotiations into a perpetual headache for the front office. Establishing the precedent of handing a player a huge amount of cash to keep them happy is also a mistake because it will cause other players (and agents) to view the Jets differently and will lead to persistent raids on Woody's wallet by people willing to disrupt the team for short-term gain. Moving like 7 million of the 2012 money to 2010 is maybe defendable because there's no question that Revis will play for the 13 million on the end of the contract if that's his only choice. Moving 16 million just tells him to stop playing football for a living if the Jets won't renegotiate since the 3 million left is peanuts at that point.
No. The sticking point right now is the Aso contract. That goes away this year. Crazy Uncle Al isn't going to be shelling out 15 per forvever. Like I said, you've already committed to paying the one monster year, bite the bullet in the uncapped year, and then you can extend him for 6/72-78 mil which will make him the highest paid player at his position.
wait and see. Unless he and his agents are morons, he doesn't do anything to void his contract. By the way, he'd be thrilled if his 2011 and 2012 years got voided -- then he'd be a free agent at the end of this year subject to whatever new CBA rules are out there. The pressure on the Jets would be intense to resign him.
That statement really is the key to this whole thing. Darrelle Revis is not a necessity for a team to win the Super Bowl, as much as he may think that he is. As phenomenal as DR was last year, the other CB spot was a constant headache. Say it's the worst case scenario and Revis sits out the whole season, the pairing of Cromartie and Wilson could end up better than what we had last year factoring in the hole that was the #2 spot. If it comes down to Revis for 80 and having to lose two of our beloved big four or keeping all of the other three with Cro, the Jets may not have a choice. A question though, if his contract is going to get voided after this year and we don't pick up the 5 million dollar buyback, would he be a RFA?
