record or no record....if we traded Revis and a 2nd round pick for C.Portis circa 2004....I would've lit school buses on fire.
The comparable deal now would be Darrelle Revis and a second round pick for Chris Johnson. I'd be all over that one. And that's including the fact that Johnson's carries need to go down a lot or the tread will come off pretty quickly.
And they don't win Super Bowls. 7 running backs have been Super Bowl MVP's. 3 safeties join the list. ZERO cornerbacks have been Super Bowl MVP. Adding Chris Johnson to the Jets next season would make them one of the most potent offenses in the NFL even if Sanchez wasn't completely ready for prime time. Adding him if Sanchez was good to go would probably make the Jets a top 5 offense. That would do more for the Jets chances to win a Super Bowl next season than juggling 3 good to great corners.
yeah...Chris Johnson was a major factor when our defense slapped the Titans around last season. Sorry, man...we'll have to disagree.....Revis > C.Johnson IMO.
I'm waiting for the "trade Revis for Brady" thread. It totally makes sense. They both need contracts, and I'm sure Belichick would be down for it. Then we could trade Sanchez for Richard Seymour, and, like, get that whole pass rush thing taken care of. And that would free up Tanny to trade Shaun Ellis for a top tier cornerback....like Revis.
Larry Brown was the Super Bowl MVP of SBXXX for the Cowboys, but he's the only one. And he didn't 'win' SBXXX. He just made some nice plays, and he had plenty of action since Deion Sanders was covering the other side. There have been some SB MVPs that weren't huge factors for their teams until they played in the Super Bowl. Only 2 cornerbacks have ever been voted DPOY. One of them beat Revis out by 14 votes. Just because it hasn't been done often doesn't mean it's impossible.
Nice catch, I saw Brown in the list of MVP's but I no-brained him into a safety. I guess the idea that a cornerback on the Cowboys other than Deion might win that award just did not register.
I think we should definetly maybe trade him for no less then the 4 first rounders you mentioned probably.
THE ORIGINAL_I hear alot of you on this message board talk about how teams get screwed when a player disagrees with the contract that they initially signed and while I am more inclined to the player when they outperform their initial contract and believe the player should receive adequate compensation. I also believe in value and looking at Revis in this situation who many consider the best defensive player in the league is obviously more of a valuable commodity than we realize we traded pics to get him when we had no idea he would be this good now that we know along with all the other teams how good he is we find ourselves in the drivers seat of the best possible situation pay him like he deserves wich will be a monumental contract or make a monumental trade for him neither of the other players we have to resign will bring back a first round pick at this point or opposed to Revis multiple pics. The logic in this if we resign Revis we might lose some very significant player(s) if we trade him we get multiple first round picks and keep the likes of Holmes, Edwards, Cromartie, Harris, Mangold, Ferguson etc. I will admitt I am all for keeping Revis and hope they come to terms but I wouldn't disagree with a scenario that allowed us to keep all the aforementioned player(s) and aquire first round talent the for next few years to boot.
For everyone screaming we trade Revis for first rounders (what are we up to now? 4?), who exactly is going to take him for that price? The entire league knows how much he wants, and what they would have to give him if a deal went down. So how many teams would be dumb enough to mortgage their future AND pay a king's ransom? Not happening. Palantonio reported yesterday the Jets are willing to go to around 13.5 right now. They may have to go a tad higher, but that's about the number everybody sounded happy about back when we thought he wanted 20. If we can't sign Nick, Brick, and Harris working around a deal that size then we are screwed anyway. He'll be a Jet one way or another this season because he doesn't really have a choice. So will the other three. He's not gonna hold out (for too long), and he's not gonna dog it on the field either, he'll just be another talent auditioning for a new contract.
I would hope they don't go any higher than that 13.5 million you stated. They might have to give him a decent chunk of that in guarantees but if there is a guy that is worth a lot of guaranteed money it would be Revis.
